Description¶
Overview¶
The white_light
step sums the spectroscopic flux over all
wavelengths in each integration of a multi-integration extracted
spectrum product to produce an integrated (“white”) flux as a
function of time for a target. This is to be applied to the _x1dints
product in a spectroscopic Time-Series Observation (TSO), as part of
the calwebb_tso3
pipeline.
Input details¶
The input should be in the form of an _x1dints
product, which contains
extracted spectra from multiple integrations for a given target.
Algorithm¶
The algorithm performs a simple sum of the flux values over all wavelengths for each extracted spectrum contained in the input product.
Output product¶
The output product is a table of time vs. integrated flux, stored
in the form of a ASCII ECSV (Extended Comma-Separated Value) file.
The product type suffix is _whtlt
.