Grizli for dummies

I was scared I’d forget these details, so I put them in a book.

Author: Jasleen Matharu

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Preface

I never chose to write this book, it chose me. During my PhD and now during my first Postdoc, I have been forced to learn and grasp many intricate details regarding the usage of the Grism redshift and line analysis software (Grizli) written by Gabriel Brammer 1 . The official documentation and software can be found here.

Out of sheer fear that I would forget all the details I have been forced to learn, or that I will waste away many hours frantically flipping through my notebooks, emails and slack channels trying to remember how I did something, I’ve chosen to put all my notes in this book.

The details in this book are not designed to help with the basics. This book was written selfishly for myself, with the added bonus that if there is anyone else out there that just can’t seem to figure something out about Grizli from the official documentation or source code, they might get lucky and find the solution here. Otherwise, the struggle is real.

Jasleen Matharu
4th May 2020
during the COVID-19 Pandemic 2
1

I still haven’t met him in person.

2

No, I did not decide to write a book because I had lots of free time on my hands.

How to get the most out of this book

This book follows a particular format to help you get the most out of the information presented. Below the heading of each chapter, the name of the author who wrote that chapter will be stated. This is so that in case you are confused about anything in that chapter, you know who to contact for queries or further questions. In some cases, the author’s name will be a link that will either take you to their GitHub page or a website of theirs with their contact details. Otherwise, we’re all relatively famous, that I’m sure you can google or NASA ADS us and you’ll find the most up-to-date email address for us, or physical address to send your telegram by pigeon.

Underneath the author, if relevant, the version of Grizli that was used for that chapter will be stated. This is particularly important, because there are differences between different versions of Grizli, which means Grizli may not behave the same way for the same task in different versions. If you’re following a task outlined in this book and you can’t quite figure out why it’s not working out for you, it might be worth comparing your version of Grizli to the one used for that chapter and check whether perhaps an update or downgrade will solve your problem (I would recommend a downgrade as a last resort though).

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Installing Grizli

Author: Jasleen Matharu

As you have probably seen from the official installation page, there is only one way to install Grizli: using the conda environment. Don’t try to do it any other way if you want to ensure an environment within which Grizli will work harmoniously. Remember, Grizli is designed to work within the astroconda environment, which itself is a conda environment within anaconda3 .

Updating Grizli

You can update Grizli using pip 4 :

$ pip install git+https://github.com/gbrammer/grizli.git

If that doesn’t work, a wise person 5 told me to:

  1. Clone the environment to a local location.

  2. Update as necessary with git pull.

  3. Run pip install in the repository.

The above approach seems to behave better with versioning, and you may want to clean out any earlier installations of the Grizli module from your site-packages directory or wherever the module is getting placed by setup.py. To find out where Grizli is installed on your computer, in python you can do:

>>> import grizli
>>> print('grizli location: {0}'.format(grizli.__file__))
grizli location: /Users/gbrammer/miniconda3/envs/grizli-dev/lib/python3.6/site-packages/grizli/__init__.py

You may also need to re-do:

>>> from grizli import utils
>>> utils.symlink_templates()

to get any new redshift fit templates that have been added to the repository.

Re-installing Grizli

Sometimes, something might get really screwed up on your computer that Grizli just won’t work. You don’t know why, but before you pull every single strand of hair out of your scalp, you get software rage and decide you want to wipe Grizli out of existence.

For me, to accomplish this I had to remove Grizli and the grizli-dev environment and re-install from scratch using the conda environment method.

Deleting the Grizli environment

Within the astroconda environment, I ran:

$ conda env remove --name grizli-dev

which deletes the grizli-dev environment and everything in it.

3

Environment-ception.

4

As spoken by the Grizli God himself, Gabe Brammer.

5

You guessed it, it was the Grizli God himself, Gabe Brammer.

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Changes between Grizli versions

Author: Jasleen Matharu

Version 0.9 versus 1.0

Improvement in the grism/photometry scaling algorithm

If you happen to have processed some grism data including photometry 6 with Grizli version 0.9 and then 1.0, you may have noticed that your 1.0 extractions look more reliable. The one-dimensional model spectrum seems to follow the data much better in your full.png files.

Let’s pretend you absolutely need to reproduce the 0.9 version fit for whatever reason. You try to really constrain the redshift window around the 0.9 version’s determined grism redshift. Nope. Still a much better fit when you compare your new and old full.png files for the same galaxy. What the hell is going on?

Turns out, the grism/photometry scaling got a serious upgrade, giving you better quality fits whether you like it or not. In the words of Gabe Brammer himself:

“Before I was trying to fit the templates to the spectrum and photometry and calculate a scaling based on that. The problem was that the comparison had to be done at about the correct redshift, otherwise lines being in the wrong place would compromise the fit. The new method fits a more flexible spline function to the spectrum and tries to integrate the broad-band flux density of the available filters that overlap the fit, which it compares to the observed photometry. You still need at least one filter that overlaps the available spectrum more or less completely. One way around that could be defining an interpolated filter in the photometric catalog derived from the photo-z fit. Say, filling F140W with the template value for objects where it is otherwise missing.”

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For example, you set scale_photometry=1 when running the grizli.fitting.run_all function.

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Accessing the public database of reduced grism data

Author: Jasleen Matharu
Grizli version: 1.0-76-g71853af

The database of reduced public HST grism data can be accessed with the following information in python 7 :

>>> from grizli.aws import db
>>> config = {'hostname':'grizdbinstance.c3prl6czsxrm.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com',
      'username':'****',
      'password':'****',
      'database':'****',
      'port':5432}
>>> engine = db.get_db_engine(config=config)
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You didn’t honestly think I was going to publicise the login details, did you? If you require access, you need to ask Gabe Brammer nicely.

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Creating thumbnails that are not the standard 80 x 80 pixels in full.fits

Author: Jasleen Matharu
Grizli version: 1.0-76-g71853af

In this chapter, I will walk you through how to create thumbnails in your full.fits files with the dimensions of your choice.

If you already have existing beams.fits files you’ve generated, you do not need to recreate them for this task, unless your beams aren’t tall enough. For reference, I successfully created 189 x 189 pixel thumbnails from existing beams that were used to create the standard 80 x 80 thumbnails in full.fits. What you will need is:

  • To load and initiate the relevant line templates for fitting the line fluxes:

    >>> templ0 = grizli.utils.load_templates(fwhm=1200, line_complexes=True,
            stars=False, full_line_list=None,  continuum_list=None,
            fsps_templates=True)

>>> templ1 = grizli.utils.load_templates(fwhm=1200, line_complexes=False,
             stars=False, full_line_list=None, continuum_list=None,
             fsps_templates=True)

  • If you’re including photometry in your fit, do the following steps before the above:

    1. Install eazy-py (and import it in your python script with the line import eazy), with the following parameters 8 defined in your python script:

      params = {}
params['Z_STEP'] = 0.002
params['Z_MAX'] = 4
params['TEMPLATES_FILE'] = 'templates/fsps_full/tweak_fsps_QSF_12_v3.param'
params['PRIOR_FILTER'] = 205
params['MW_EBV'] = {'aegis':0.0066, 'cosmos':0.0148, 'goodss':0.0069, \
                'uds':0.0195, 'goodsn':0.0103}['goodsn']

    2. Acquire the translate files for your field.

    3. Define the following parameters 9 for your field:

      params['CATALOG_FILE'] = my_photometric_catalogue.cat
params['MAIN_OUTPUT_FILE'] = '{0}_3dhst.{1}.eazypy'.format('goodss', 'v4.4')

    4. Create a symlink to your templates directory with the following lines of python code:

      import os
eazy.symlink_eazy_inputs(path=os.path.dirname(eazy.__file__)+'/data')

    5. Run the following line of python code:

      ez = eazy.photoz.PhotoZ(param_file=None, translate_file=translate_file,
        zeropoint_file=None, params=params, load_prior=True, load_products=False)

    6. Then, after loading and initiating your line templates as shown in the first bullet point, run:

      from grizli.pipeline import photoz
ep = photoz.EazyPhot(ez, grizli_templates=templ0, zgrid=ez.zgrid)

Setting the thumbnail dimensions

The next line of code I’m going to show you is the line of the code. The line of code that will allow you to fiddle with the properties of your output thumbnails in full.fits. The default setting leads to thumbnails in full.fits with a pixel scale of 0.1” and dimensions of 80 x 80 pixels:

pline = {'kernel': 'point', 'pixfrac': 0.2, 'pixscale': 0.1, 'size': 8, 'wcs': None}

Now, for different thumbnail dimensions, all you need to do is change the value of size. With pixscale=0.1, an 8” x 8” thumbnail is 80 x 80 pixels. So, for example, if I wanted thumbnails with dimensions 189 x 189 pixels, I would set size=18.9.

Running your new fits with Grizli

If you’re including photometry, then you must first do:

Otherwise…

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The values shown for the parameters are just examples. They may not be relevant to your particular data.

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The values shown for the parameters are just examples. They may not be relevant to your particular data.

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Creating reliable direct image thumbnails

Author: Jasleen Matharu
Grizli version: 1.0-76-g71853af and 1.0.dev1458

The full.fits files

When one has run Grizli from end-to-end, perhaps following the Grizli-Pipeline notebook, you will find that you will have root_id.full.fits files in your root/Extractions/ folder. These contain thumbnails of the direct images, emission line maps and associated contamination, weight 10 , PSFs and segmentation maps for the source in the field = root with Object ID = id. These have been designed to work with GALFIT.

Direct image thumbnails in full.fits

Note, the direct image thumbnails in full.fits are in units of electrons per second, but the emission line map thumbnails are in units of 10-17 ergs s-1 cm-2. To convert the direct image thumbnails to the same units as the emission line maps, you need the relevant PHOTPLAM and PHOTFLAM values. These can be found as keywords in the header of the direct image thumbnail extension (DSCI) in full.fits. If not, this StScI website tabulates the values for the relevant HST filters.

If you are conducting a study where you need to directly compare the direct image thumbnails to the emission line map thumbnails, you cannot use the direct image thumbnails in the root_id.full.fits files. This is because the direct images have been “blotted” 11 from the full mosaic without accounting for the correct variance of the parent image. The most reliable direct images can be generated by:

“drizzling them from the original direct image FLTs to the same WCS and with the same drizzle parameters used to generate the line map. The grizli.aws.aws_drizzler.drizzle_images function can help with this.” 12

The above is not as straightforward as the author of this chapter thought.

Generating reliable direct image thumbnails

Generating direct image thumbnails when your _phot.fits file is generated with Grizli

To accomplish this monumental task, you will need to run the auto_script.make_rgb_thumbnails function in the root/Prep/ directory and you will need the following files in your root/Prep/ directory for it to work:

  • The necessary 13 flt.fits 14 files in the root/Prep/ directory. If you are not sure about this, please check how you queried the HST archive when doing your Grizli extractions. For the most reliable direct image thumbnails, you need ALL the available flt.fits files available for your field, not necessarily those pertaining to your proposal ID (especially for well-studied fields such as those in 3D-HST/CANDELS). If you know you’ve added new flt.fits files since doing your Grizli run, you need to generate a new root_groups.npy file — read this section NOW.

  • The root_phot.fits file in the root/Prep/ directory.

  • The root_visits.npy file in the root/Prep/ directory.

  • The root-ir_seg.fits file to be in your root/Prep/ directory (if you want a corresponding segmentation map thumbnail to be generated).

Reliable direct image thumbnails can be created with the function auto_script.make_rgb_thumbnails. An example of its usage can be seen in In [40]: of the Grizli-Pipeline notebook. For a given field (or root), you will need to run this function in the root/Prep/ directory. If you set the keyword use_line_wcs = True, the function will look in root/Extractions/ for the full.fits files associated with the object IDs you request and match the WCS and drizzle parameters of the thumbnails to those of the LINE extensions. Also, set the keyword skip = False if the function doesn’t do anything, since skip = True will skip over objects where a root_id.thumb.fits file already exists. The root_id.thumb.fits files will be saved in the root/Prep/ directory.

For example, to make a single thumbnail for one of the objects in the Grizli-Pipeline demo, run 15:

auto_script.make_rgb_thumbnails(root='j033216m2743', ids=[424], use_line_wcs=True)

However, the story does not end there.

Corresponding segmentation map thumbnails

You may suddenly realise you need corresponding segmentation maps for your newly-generated direct image thumbnails 16 . Have no fear, you can generate them when you run auto_script.make_rgb_thumbnails as explained above, but you need to set the keyword make_segmentation_figure=True. For a segmentation map to be successfully generated, you need the root-ir_seg.fits file to be in your root/Prep/ directory.

Other important things to note

  • By default, the min_filters keyword is set to 2. Sometimes, you only have imaging for the object in one filter. So if you want auto_script.make_rgb_thumbnails to work in that instance, you’ll need to explicitly set min_filters = 1.

Generating direct image thumbnails when your photometric catalog is external to Grizli

To accomplish this task, you will need to run the grizli.aws.aws_drizzler.drizzle_images in your root/Prep/ directory and you will need the following files for it to work:

  • The necessary 17 flt.fits 18 files in the root/Prep/ directory.

  • The _groups.npy file in your root/Prep/ directory.

  • The segmentation map for your field in the root/Prep/ directory (if you want a corresponding segmentation map thumbnail).

  • The photometric catalog for your field, with the Object ID column named as 'number' 19 (if you want a corresponding segmentation map thumbnail).

The method to create reliable direct image thumbnails outlined in the previous sub-section will only work if you used a photometric catalog that was generated by Grizli (a root_phot.fits file in your root/Prep/ directory) throughout your reduction process. If this is not the case, then you my friend, are in a bit of a pickle 20 .

No you’re not. You have another option. In certain cases, you will not need Grizli to generate a photometric catalog, because you’re working on a well-studied field which already has a much more complete, external photometric catalog. You may think “Aw, heck. Let me just use Grizli to create it anyway.” No. Stop. For well-studied fields such as those part of CANDELS and/or 3D-HST – or any other field that has obtained HST imaging external to grism programs – this may be problematic. It all depends on how you queried the HST archive when you ran Grizli on your dataset (look at the section”Query the HST archive” on In [5]: of the Grizli-Pipeline notebook.). Did you just extract the data based on your Proposal ID? Did you use the overlap query and if you did, did you make sure you obtained ALL the possible relevant imaging for your objects of interest? If you did not query the HST archive for ALL the relevant HST imaging for your targets in existence, then the mosaics Grizli will construct from these – on which Grizli runs SExtractor to generate its root_phot.fits file – will be incomplete. You need to query the HST archive again, making sure to download ALL the necessary flt.fits files corresponding to the filter you want the direct image to be in. Then, you can either:

  1. Use Grizli to generate a new root_phot.fits file, or

  2. Use an existing photometric catalog (if it exists).

Well don’t just stare at me, hoping I’ll make the decision for you. I’m now going to explain how you can generate reliable direct image thumbnails using an existing photometric catalog, assuming you have now downloaded all the relevant flt.fits files you need and have generated your _groups.npy file. If not, go read this section now. You can join me back here afterwards.

When you have an existing photometric catalog, it is best to by-pass the whole process of constructing the root_phot.fits file with Grizli and run the grizli.aws.aws_drizzler.drizzle_images21 function by hand.

So, “how do I run this function?!”, I hear you scream. Below I show you how I call the function:

from grizli.aws import aws_drizzler

new_thumbnail=aws_drizzler.drizzle_images(label=label_name, ra=RA, dec=DEC, master=field,
                single_output=True, make_segmentation_figure=False, pixscale=0.1,
                pixfrac=0.2, size=18.9, filters=['f105w'], remove=False, include_ir_psf=True)

  • label_name is the name of the output files you want. For me it was the field name followed by the Object ID number. e.g. ‘ERSPRIME_42362’. But you can set this to whatever you fancy.

  • field is just the field name, for me it was ‘ERSPRIME’. Again, as far as I can see, the user can set this to whatever they want.

  • No idea what single_output is 22 .

  • Now, it may seem strange to you that I set make_segmentation_figure = False. I want to generate segmentation map thumbnails, but when I set this to True, my segmentation map thumbnails were not generated. This is because Grizli tries to find the segmentation map in the cloud and not the local directory. I explain in this subsection how to generate the segmentation map thumbnail when your segmentation map is in your local directory.

  • The pixscale, pixfrac and size arguments are the ones you need to be careful about here. In the instance where you have a photometric catalog generated by Grizli (see this section), these arguments were taken care of for you because you ran that function on the full.fits files and could just set the argument use_line_wcs = True. The function would then just use the drizzle parameters of the LINE extensions in full.fits and generate direct image thumbnails with these drizzle parameters. Not here. Here you need to make sure you are setting the correct drizzle parameters. If you are not sure what these are, you should look back at (or find out) the value of these parameters when you generated your full.fits files (for an example, see this section). Alternatively, you should be able to find PIXFRAC and PIXASEC keywords in the headers of almost all the extensions in full.fits. Similarly to get the size, just multiply the value for NAXIS1 in the header by the PIXASEC.

  • You can specify which filters you want direct images for. If you don’t specify this, the function will generate direct image thumbnails in all filters available for that object, which means you need to make sure ALL the flt.fits file for that object/field are present in your root/Prep/ directory. Otherwise, you will only need the ones corresponding to the filter you specify.

  • If remove = True, the function will delete the flt.fits files it uses after it has run.

  • If you would like a corresponding PSF thumbnail, you should set include_ir_psf = True. 23

Corresponding segmentation map thumbnails

As mentioned in the above section, setting make_segmentation_figure = True when running the function grizli.aws.aws_drizzler.drizzle_images did not generate a segmentation map thumbnail for me. To generate my segmentation map thumbnails, I ran the function grizli.aws.aws_drizzler.segmentation_figure after I ran grizli.aws.aws_drizzler.drizzle_images, like so:

segmap = aws_drizzler.segmentation_figure(label_name, cat_phot, seg_file)

  • cat_phot is your photometric catalog. Remember, for your segmentation map thumbnail to be generated, the Object ID column needs to have the title number 24 .

  • seg_file is the filename of your segmentation map fits file. I put this file in my root/Prep/ directory.

Tips

For me, after generating the relevant files, the functions grizli.aws.aws_drizzler.drizzle_images and
grizli.aws.aws_drizzler.segmentation_figure would sometimes break. This breaking was unrelated to the generation of the relevant thumbnails. So to ensure the functions ran on my entire sample in my code, I used the python try and except conditions like so:
flag=False
try:
    new_thumbnail = aws_drizzler.drizzle_images(label=label_name, ra=RA, dec=DEC,
                                 master=field, single_output=True,
                                 make_segmentation_figure=False,
                                 pixscale=0.1, pixfrac=0.2, size=18.9,
                                 filters=['f105w'],
                                 remove=False, include_ir_psf=True)

except:
    flag=True

flag=False

try:
    segmap = aws_drizzler.segmentation_figure(label_name, cat_phot, seg_file)
except:
    flag=True

Creating your own _groups.npy file

If you are working on a well-studied field, like, I don’t know, maybe one of the 3D-HST/CANDELS fields 25 , you may need to generate a new _groups.npy file to obtain the most reliable direct image thumbnails. This all depends on how you queried the HST archive for your Grizli run (look at the section “Query the HST archive” on In [5]: of the Grizli-Pipeline notebook.). Did you just extract the data based on your Proposal ID? Did you use the overlap query and if you did, did you make sure you obtained ALL the possible relevant imaging for your objects of interest? The instructions in this chapter implicitly assume that if your _phot.fits file was generated with Grizli, it was generated using all the HST imaging available for that field in that filter. This may not be the case, so I implore you, for what feels like the millionth time, to go back and check you have all the necessary _flt.fits files in existence for the filter within which you want to create reliable direct image postage stamps. If you are using the method outlined in this chapter to create your reliable direct image postage stamps, as far as I am aware, the _groups.npy can be used interchangeably with the _visits.npy file. So if you have to generate a new _groups.npy file (as is about to be explained), you should be able to use it instead of the _visits.npy file. Just make sure you get rid of the old file, or move it into a different directory.

Once you have downloaded all the necessary _flt.fits files, the python function below 26 will generate your new _groups.npy in the local directory, with an example at the end of how to call it:

import os
import numpy as np

field = 'my_beautiful_fieldname'

def make_local_groups(path_to_flt='./', verbose=True, output_file='local_filter_groups.npy'):
    """
    Make a "groups" dictionary with lists of FLT exposures separated by
    filter.
    """
    import glob

    import astropy.io.fits as pyfits
    import astropy.wcs as pywcs

    from shapely.geometry import Polygon

    from grizli import utils

    # FLT files
    files = glob.glob(os.path.join(path_to_flt, '*fl[tc].fits'))
    files.sort()

    groups = {}
    for file in files:

        im = pyfits.open(file)

        # THE FOLLOWING LINE NEEDS TO HAVE .LOWER() AT THE END OTHERWISE
        # THE RESULTING FILE WON'T WORK
        filt = utils.get_hst_filter(im[0].header).lower()

        # UVIS
        if ('_flc' in file) & os.path.basename(file).startswith('i'):
            filt += 'U'

        if filt not in groups:
            groups[filt] = {}
            groups[filt]['filter'] = filt
            groups[filt]['files'] = []
            groups[filt]['footprints'] = []
            groups[filt]['awspath'] = []

        fpi = None
        for i in [1,2]:
            if ('SCI',i) in im:
                wcs = pywcs.WCS(im['SCI',i].header, fobj=im)
                if fpi is None:
                    fpi = Polygon(wcs.calc_footprint())
                else:
                    fpi = fpi.union(Polygon(wcs.calc_footprint()))

        groups[filt]['files'].append(file)
        groups[filt]['footprints'].append(fpi)
        groups[filt]['awspath'].append(None)

        if verbose:
            cosd = np.cos(wcs.wcs.crval[1]/180*np.pi)
            print('{0} {1:>7} {2:.1f}'.format(file, filt, fpi.area*cosd*3600))

    if output_file is not None:
        np.save(output_file, [groups])

    return groups


new_group_file = make_local_groups(path_to_flt='', verbose=True,
                                   output_file=field+'_filter_groups.npy')

Obviously change the default field name otherwise you’re going to look like a right idiot.

10

The DWHT and LINEWHT extensions are indeed inverse variance maps, where σ = 1 / √weight. σ can be used as a sigma image with GALFIT.

11

Going from the undistorted mosaic to a distorted mosaic is “blotting”. Going in the opposite direction is “drizzling”. The individual images that get spat out of the Telescope are drizzled to some tangent point, leading to an undistorted mosaic. In full.fits, the DSCI image you see has been taken from the undistorted mosaic and put back into a distorted frame. So basically, the pixel positions (and probably the pixel values) in the DSCI full.fits extension are not reliable. Still don’t understand? Well don’t shoot the messenger.

12

As spoken by the Grizli God himself, Gabe Brammer.

13

At least the ones corresponding to the filter for which you want direct image thumbnail for. Note, in older (before ~May 2020) versions of Grizli, you would have needed ALL the flt.fits files for a particular field, otherwise the code would break.

14

These files contain images of each HST pointing/exposure.

15

As spoken by the Grizli God himself, Gabe Brammer.

16

This most definitely was not me.

17

You only need the flt.fits files corresponding to the filter you want the direct image to be in.

18

These files contain images of each HST pointing/exposure.

19

Otherwise the segmentation map thumbnail will not be generated. It’s just the way of the code, deal with it.

20

No, not a python pickle.

21

So that’s what Gabe meant in this section!

22

A reminder that this book wasn’t written by people who wrote Grizli.

23

If a PSF thumbnail is not generated, check you have the relevant PSF files in your grizli/CONF directory and can open them. For example, when generating F105W reliable direct image thumbnails, I needed to be able to open the file PSFSTD_WFC3IR_F105W.fits. Mine for some reason was corrupt :( .

24

Otherwise the segmentation map thumbnail will not be generated. It’s just the way of the code, deal with it.

25

This most definitely did not happen to me.

26

As generously given to me (and then adapted by me) by our Grizli God, Gabe Brammer.

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Notes about emission line map thumbnails

Author: Jasleen Matharu
Grizli version: 1.0-76-g71853af

  • Pixel values are in units of 10-17 ergs s-1 cm-2.

  • You do not need to apply the associated contamination maps to them – the CONTAM maps just show you where the contamination is. The contamination has already been removed 27 from the LINE extensions.

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If there is residual contamination left in the LINE extension, this means Grizli failed to remove it. You may have to apply your own contamination removal techniques or if possible, see if you can use the associated CONTAM map to mask the problematic regions.

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Emission line fluxes and equivalent widths

Author: Jasleen Matharu
Grizli version: 1.0-76-g71853af

In older versions of Grizli, Grizli used to spit out a catalog with line flux and equivalent width measurements. A description of the keywords for equivalent widths in such catalogs can be found in this chapter. In newer versions, such as the one used for this chapter (yep, why don’t you glance back up near the title of this chapter to check), only line fluxes and their errors are stated in the output catalog. The equivalent widths seem to have vanished. Gah!

No they haven’t. The rest-frame equivalent widths (including their 16th, 50th and 84th percentiles) along with their errors can be found in the header of the COVAR extension in full.fits (see this section for more on full.fits files). You will also find all the line fluxes and their errors there too for that particular source. Emission line fluxes and their errors can also be found in the headers of their corresponding LINE extensions in full.fits.

For the same dataset, I have found that the same line has the same number in the COVAR header of full.fits for every object in that dataset. Check this is true for you of course, before you take my word for it.

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Author: Jasleen Matharu

  • ew50_Ha is the median of the Hα equivalent width Probability Density Function (PDF).

  • ewhw_Ha is the “half-width”, so something like the 1σ uncertainty on ew50_Ha.

Grizli does not fit for resolved lines in the grism spectra, so there is no parameter for the velocity line width. For all but broad-line AGN (approximately ≥ 1000 km s-1), the lines are unresolved 29 .

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Yes, I am British. The word ‘catalogue’ does not end at the ‘g’, obviously *eye roll*.

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All of the above, as said by the Grizli God himself, Gabe Brammer.

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