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| Paper: |
Automated Removal of Bad-Baseline Spectra from ACSIS/HARP Heterodyne Time Series |
| Volume: |
475, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXII |
| Page: |
341 |
| Authors: |
Currie, M. J. |
| Abstract: |
Heterodyne time-series spectral data often exhibit distorted or noisy baselines. These are either transient due to external interference or pickup; or affect a receptor throughout an observation or extended period, possibly due to a poor cable connection. While such spectra can be excluded manually, this is time consuming and prone to omission, especially for the high-frequency interference affecting just one or two spectra in typically several to twenty thousand, yet can produce undesirable artifacts in the reduced spectral cube. Further astronomers have tended to reject an entire receptor if any of its spectra are suspect; as a consequence the reduced products have lower signal-to-noise, and enhanced graticule patterns due to the variable coverage and detector relative sensitivities.
This paper illustrates some of the types of aberrant spectra for ACSIS/HARP on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the algorithms used to identify and remove them, applied within the ORAC-DR pipeline, and compares an integrated map with and without baseline filtering. |
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