Sir Raw Frame Product

Data product name

SirRawFrame

Data product custodian

LE1

Data model tag

R-1.6.7

Name of the Schema file

euc-test-le1-SirRawFrame.xsd

Schema documentation tag

A NISP-S raw exposure, both for calibration and scientific exposures

Data product elements

Header of type: sys:genericHeader

Data of type: le1nisp:sirRawFrame

Parameters of type: ppr:genericKeyValueParameters

Processing Element(s) creating/using the data product

LE1 NISP Processor

Processing function using the data product

SIR Processing Function (pre-processing is in common with the NIR processing function)

Detailed description of the data product

Analogously to the Nir Raw Frame Product, each calibration and scientific exposure is provided as one multi-extension FITS (MEF) file. In particular, a NISP-S exposure file contains two extensions per detector: one extension for the detector scientific data, and one extension for the detector Chi2 data. The total number of the extensions in the files is hence 32.

For the detectors numbering and location on the NISP Detector System Assembly see Nir Raw Frame Product.

Data encoding

For each detector:

  • pixels in the scientific extension are in units of ADU, 16-bit unsigned integer.

  • pixels in the Chi2 extension provide the linear Weighted Least Square Fit computed, on-board, on the signal derivatives, and stored as an 8-bit value. The Chi2 is computed using the following formula, valid for equi-sparsed readouts (ref. NISP Data Processing Definition and Justification File, EUCL-OPD-RP-7-003):

    \chi^2 = \frac{1}{1+\alpha}\lfloor2\times(M-1)\times a - 2\times(S_M - S_1)-2\times(M-1)\times\beta)\rfloor

    Where:
    M = number of MACC groups
    N = number of samples per group
    D = number of discarded readouts between groups
    S_i = signal value at point i
    \sigma^2_r = read noise in e^-
    \gamma = \frac{2\times\sigma_r^2}{N}
    \alpha = \frac{1 - N^2}{3\times N\times(N+D)}
    \beta = \frac{\gamma}{\alpha+1}
    a = \sqrt{\frac{\sum_{i=2}^{M}(S_i - S_{i-1} + \beta)^2}{M-1}}

Header content

The required keywords are specified below (with an example of value when possible):

Primary header

TELESCOP

= EUCLID

/

Also ground telescopes from EXT

INSTRUME

= NISP

/

Other values: VIS

SURVMOD

= WIDE

/

Survey mode: Wide, Deep

OBSTYPE

= SPECTROSCOPIC

/

Observation type - IMAGING or SPECTROSCOPIC

OBSMODE

= MULTIACCUM

/

Observation mode: e.g. MULTIACCUM

DATE-OBS

= 2025-06-22 18:56:13.000Z

/

Date of observation (start)

MJD-OBS

= 9304.78981695

/

MJD start EXPTIME

EXPTIME

= 552.7199999999999

/

Total integration time in seconds

RA

= 8.819091727789999

/

Center of field of view right ascension (deg)

DEC

= -19.474857937

/

Center of field of view right declination (deg)

PA

= -24.9556027707

/

Position angle (deg)

EQUINOX

= 2000.0

/

Standard FK5 (years)

RADECSYS

= FK5

/

Coordinate reference frame

OBSID

= 52926

/

Observation ID

DITHSEQ

= 1

/

Number sequence of dithering

EXPNO

= 1

/

Exposure sequence ID

FILTER

= OPEN

/

Filter wheel position

GRISM

= RED0

/

Grism wheel Position

Extension headers

For each NISP detector, two extensions will be provided: a science “layer”, containing the pixel data, and a data quality layer that, for the photometric data, will just contain 1 bit of information per pixel, reporting the cosmic-ray hits detected on-board.

The science layer will include the following header keywords

EXTNAME

= DET11.SCI

/

Detector ID and SCI data

DET_ID

= 11

/

Detector ID

CRVAL1

/

Right ascension at ref pixel

CRVAL2

/

Declination at ref pixel

CRPIX1

/

Reference pixel x coordinate

CRPIX2

/

Reference pixel y coordinate

CDELT1

/

Incremnt of x coordinate

CDELT2

/

Incremnt of y coordinate

CTYPE1

/

Coordinamte 1 type

CTYPE2

/

Coordinamte 2 type

CD1_1

/

Translation matrix element

CD1_2

/

Translation matrix element

CD2_1

/

Translation matrix element

CD2_2

/

Translation matrix element

DATAUNIT

= ADU

/

Pixel data unit

GAIN

= 1.5

/

e- to ADU conversion factor

BIASLEV

/

Bias level in ADU

SATURATE

= 64000

/

Pixels are saturated if counts >= 64000 ADU

The WCS keywords information is just a baseline set of coefficients estimated during ground tests. They are needed by the SIR Spectra Location astrometric modeling in order to refine and compute the correct astrometric solution.

No specific keywords are espected in the data quality layer.

EXTNAME

= DET11.DQ

/

Detector ID and quality layer (Chi2)

DET_ID

= 11

/

Detector ID