Absolute spectra for 11 March 2003 flare


  • 11 March 2003 flare (max ~ 5:50 UT)



    • Download:

       Fits data file (360 kB)
       Program for reading RESIK fits files (3.2 kB)


      Reading RESIK fits files

      resik_read_fits, fname_fits, dset, index, data

      where:
      1) fname_fits - fits file name (input)
      2) dset - data set to read. (input)
           (To read entire fits file content set dset to -1 -> resik_read_fits, fname_fits, -1, index, data)
      3) index - RESIK index structure (output see description below)
      4) data - RESIK data cube (output see description below)

      Description of RESIK index tags and data cube

      1) index - the RESIK index structure contains the following tags:

         INSTRUMENT STRING INSTRUMENT NAME
         OBSERVATION_TYPE     STRING       TYPE OF OBSERVATION
         SPECTRA_UNITS     STRING       UNITS OF RESIK ABSOLUTE SPECTRA
         WVL_UNITS     STRING        WAVELENGTHS UNITS
         SPC_N      LONG        NUMBER OF SPECTRA IN THE FILE
         BIN_N      INT        NUMBER OF BINS per RESIK CHANNEL
         CHAN_N      INT        NUMBER RESIK CHANNELS
         SPEC_ID      LONG        SPECTRUM NUMBER (starting from 0)
         STIME_ST      STRING        SPECTRUM START TIME
         STIME_CE      STRING        SPECTRUM CENTRAL TIME
         STIME_EN      STRING         SPECTRUM END TIME
         TIME_ST      DOUBLE        SPECTRUM START TIME - JULIAN TIME
         TIME_CE      DOUBLE        SPECTRUM CENTRAL TIME - JULIAN TIME
         TIME_EN      DOUBLE        SPECTRUM END TIME - JULIAN TIME
         EXPDUR      FLOAT        SPECTRUM EXPOSURE DURATION IN SECONDS

      2) data - the RESIK data cube is a (256, 16, n) array where n is the number of spectra read by resik_read_fits.

      data(*, 0:3, *)     -      wavelengths of particular RESIK channels
      data(*, 4:7, *)     -      absolute RESIK spectra
      data(*, 8:11, *)     -     uncertaintees of RESIK spectra
      data(*, 12:15, *)     -      Level-0 data, RESIK spectra corrected for orbital background

      Using RESIK data within IDL environment (examples)

       Plotting single spectrum in selected channel with uncertainties

      1) plot resik spectrum for channel 1

      plot, data[*, 0, 0], data[*, 4, 0], yst=10, xra=[3.3, 3.9],xst=1
      errplot, data[*, 0, 0], data[*, 4, 0]*(1-data[*, 8, 0]), data[*, 4, 0]*(1+data[*, 8, 0])

      2) Plotting spectrum selected channel integrated over all spectra with uncertainties

      a) summing the array
       zz=total(reform(data[*, 4, *]),2)

      b) processing uncertainties (summation of assumed Gaussian dispersions)
       uu=sqrt(total(reform(data[*, 8, *]^2),2))/n_elements(index)

       plot,data[*, 0, *],zz,psym=10,xra=[3.3, 3.9],xst=1,yst=1
       errplot,data[*, 0, 0],zz*(1-uu),zz*(1+uu)