A TREATMENT FOR BACKGROUND CORRECTION ON THE HAMILTON ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH

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CHURCHILL, CW
ALLEN, SL
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10.1086/133536
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P1 [天文学];
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A method for background-illumination correction for the Hamilton Echelle Spectrograph is presented. The background is parametrized as (1) a global two-dimensional polynomial of scattered light, and (2) a local contamination of spectral features from adjacent orders modeled as a power law in the cross dispersion. The tatter component corrects the overlap of closely packed adjacent orders. The significance of the local component is verified by statistical tests and interorder inspection. A software tool useful with the Image Reduction Analysis Facility has been made publicly available.
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