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[{ALLOW edit EISMainUsers}]
[{ALLOW view Anonymous}]
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%%information The links in the above table each take you to a page where the estimates of the Data Compression (''DC'') factor are listed. These values vary depending on the target and SLA choice. They will be updated from time-to-time until the team are satisfied that they are adequate enough for planning purposes.%%
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In addition to these webpages showing the more involved analysis results, the current values used for DC factors in making observations are stored in {{{$SSW/hinode/eis/idl/spacecraft/decompression/eis_get_compression_factor.pro}}}
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%%information The links in the above table each take you to a page where the estimates of the Data Compression (''DC'') factor are listed. These values vary depending on the target and SLA choice. They will be updated from time-to-time until the team are satisfied that they are adequate enough for planning purposes.%%
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The current values used for DC factors in making observations are stored in {{{$SSW/hinode/eis/idl/spacecraft/decompression/eis_get_compression_factor.pro}}}
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Whereas the width of each spectral window can vary (see Line Lists below), the height of the image ''y%%sub size%%'' read out from the CCDs is necessarily fixed for each window. So each raster has the same height in all spectral windows. This height is expressed in arcseconds. In EIS's design, it was decided that a 512" image height would be sufficient (1 pixel = 1"), so this is the maximum image height that can be made at any one time.
Whereas the width of each spectral window can vary (see Line Lists below), the height of the image ''y%%sub size%%'' read out from the CCDs is necessarily fixed for each window. So each raster has the same height in all spectral windows. This height is expressed in arcseconds.
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EIS allows its user to make more than one exposure at each position on the Sun, and these exposures can have independent shutter-open times. In fact, you can have up to eight such exposures at each fine mirror position.
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Delay times can be up to 655.35 seconds long (2^16 -1 × 10-ms units), and come after each exposure. The number of delay times has to be the same as the number of exposure times, but typically these delays are set to zero.
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For example, with two exposure times of 10 and 120 seconds, and delays of 100 seconds and 200 seconds, a typical ordering of events could go like this:
||Event
|Move fine mirror to starting position
|Take an exposure for 10 seconds
|Read out exposure
|Delay for 100 seconds
|Take an exposure for 120 seconds
|Read out exposure
|Delay for 200 seconds
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|Take an exposure for 10 seconds
|Read out exposure
|Delay for 100 seconds
|Take an exposure for 120 seconds
|Read out exposure
|Delay for 200 seconds
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|Move fine mirror to next position
|''etc.''
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Knowing what all the above information means, you can also get a quick idea of most of the characteristics of a raster from the single-string raster ''Title'' field in {{{eis_xstudy}}}.
You can also get a quick idea of most of the characteristics of a raster from the single-string raster ''Title'' field in {{{eis_xstudy}}}.
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This "summary", if you like, is composed of a series of square-bracketed terms in the following order:
|RA:RasterID
|Scan:NumberOfPositons-1(SizeOfStep)steps,
|ss:SLAchoice
|wH:WindowHeight,nWins:NumberOfSpectralWindows,LL:LineListID
|ExpT(Delay):ExpTimeNumberOneInSeconds(DelayNumberOneInHundredthsOfASecond), ...
and can be handy when you understand how it works, because it means you don't need to delve into the raster description to find out how large it is, which slit or slot it uses, how long the exposure times(s) is/are, ''etc.''
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!Line List
The most critical part of the raster description that __isn't__ summarised in the ''Raster Title'' is the Line List. This is because the line list is too variable to easily summarised. So, it gets its own panel in the raster description.
Note that, like studies and rasters, line lists have and ID and acronym.
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__Rationale of a Line List__\\
When EIS makes a spectral image of a slit- or slot-sized portion of the Sun, it exposes the whole of both detectors, which amounts to some 2 × 2048 × 1024 pixels. At 16 bits per pixel (2 reserved for marking which half of which detector a pixel belongs to), this would create a massive 8 MB for all data from the detector, __at each position on the Sun!__
So, in order to limit telemetry need — even before the transition to the S-band antenna — EIS was designed so that only the spectral portions of interest on the detector would be telemetered to the ground for a given observation.
Line lists are described in terms of absolute wavelength, according to the standard wavelength calibration, so you don't need to work things out in terms of pixel co-ordinates.
__Title__\\
You'll see that, like the raster, a Line List has a one-line so-called ''Title'' string associated with it. Since this is truncated, it doesn't serve much purpose, and we'll skip it here.
__Author__\\
Again, fairly self-explanatory\\
:-)
One point to perhaps reiterate, though, is that you can use a line list created by anyone else in your study. All line lists, rasters, and studies in the OSDB are there to be re-used and cannibalised by anyone wanting to propose an observation.
__Number of lines__\\
There can be up to 25 spectral windows in a line list, but the minimum is normally three: the core lines. The core lines are
||Ion||Wavelength (Å)
|Fe XII |195.12
|Ca XVII|192.82
|He II |256.32
__Line List Detail__\\
Each spectral window can have a width that is an integer multiple of 8, from 8 to 1024 (half a CCD width), and there can be up to 25 windows, each with independent widths. In the example image above, you can see that most windows have a width of 24 pixels (a little over 0.5 Å), which is usually adequate. But a few windows are wider (32, 40 or 48 pixels). Wider windows often (but don't necessarily) indicate that the line list author was trying to capture other lines by using a wider spectral window.
This also helps to explain why the core lines of {{Fe XII}} (195.12 Å) and {{Ca XVII}} (192.82 Å) aren't explicitly included in this line list: they are already covered by the {{Fe XII}} window at 194.91 Å and the {{O V}} window at 192.84 Å, respectively.
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