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Wavelength Calibrate

Wavelength calibration is necessary so that spectral features can be identified. ORAC-DRcurrently only calculates a wavelength estimation based on information contained in the FITS headers. It takes the values for dispersion and central wavelength, then applies these values as a linear wavelength scale to the spectral image.

This is often not good enough for accurate wavelength calibration as most grisms and dispersers produce higher-order dispersions, so manual wavelength calibration must be performed after spectra have been extracted.
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ORAC-DR -- spectroscopy data reduction
Starlink User Note 236
Paul Hirst
Brad Cavanagh
Joint Astronomy Centre, Hilo, Hawaii
October 2005
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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