The EIS data are stored in IDL objects, and all information about the data can be accessed through object methods. However, sometimes it is convenient for the user to dump a particular wavelength window to an IDL structure, together with useful information such as pointing coordinates, start time, exposure time, etc.
The routine that does this is called eis_getwindata and an example of how to call it for the Fe XII 195 data window is given below.
IDL> d=eis_getwindata('eis_l0_20070202_104212') % EIS_GETWINDATA: no window number input, select one . . . iwin line_id wvl_min wvl_max 0 FE X 174.530 174.36 174.70 1 FE X 175.260 175.10 175.43 2 O VI 184.120 183.95 184.29 3 FE X 184.540 184.38 184.71 4 FE VIII 185.210 185.05 185.38 5 FE XII 186.880 186.72 187.05 6 FE XI 188.230 188.06 188.39 7 CA XVII 192.820 192.65 192.98 8 FE XII 193.510 193.34 193.67 9 FE XII 195.120 194.94 195.28 10 FE XIII 202.040 201.87 202.21 11 FE XIII 203.830 203.65 203.99 12 HE II 256.320 256.15 256.49 13 FE XVI 262.980 262.83 263.17 14 FE XIV 264.780 264.63 264.97 15 MG VI 268.990 268.84 269.17 16 FE XIV 274.200 274.05 274.38 17 SI VII 275.350 275.20 275.54 18 O IV 279.930 279.78 280.12 19 FE XV 284.160 284.01 284.34 Select a window to read [0...19]> 9 IDL> help,/str,d ** Structure <2974204>, 19 tags, length=8397328, data length=8397322, refs=1: FILENAME STRING 'eis_l0_20070202_104212.fits.gz' LINE_ID STRING 'FE XII 195.120' INT FLOAT Array[16, 256, 256] ERR FLOAT Array[16, 256, 256] WVL DOUBLE Array[16] TIME FLOAT Array[256] TIME_CCSDS STRING Array[256] EXPOSURE_TIME FLOAT Array[256] SOLAR_X FLOAT Array[256] SOLAR_Y FLOAT Array[256] NL LONG 16 NX LONG 256 NY LONG 256 SCALE FLOAT Array[2] UNITS STRING 'DN' MISSING INT -100 IWIN LONG 9 HDR STRUCT -> <Anonymous> Array[1] TIME_STAMP STRING 'Fri Jul 6 08:44:52 2007' IDL> plot_image,sigrange(total(d.int,1))
The resulting image is below. The routine also works on level1 data processed with eis_prep. More information is available in the header.
I have done a small program "plot_eis_raster.pro" where you can visualize the structure with the coordinates, time and name of the window.
plot_eis_raster.pro is just valid for the slit rasters (I haven't tried with any slot).
A few comments: the time that it shows is the time of the beginning of the raster; and the coordinates is calculated using the mean value of d.solar_x and using the size of the slit per each pixel. To use it you just have to (for the same example than before):
IDL> plot_eis_raster,d
Or if you want to change the value to plot (e.g. the values that you obtain after fit the line)
To plot the array called velocity (in my case velocity=reform(result(1,*,*)) ):
IDL> plot_eis_raster,d,value=velocity
Also you can use all the keywords of plot_map (dmin, dmax, etc.)
And you can save the map produced,
IDL> plot_eis_raster,d,value=velocity,map=velocitymap
-David Pérez-Suárez, 26 Nov 2024
Sometimes it is useful to perform spatial binning on EIS data in order to improve photon statistics on the emission lines. The routine eis_bin_windata is available in Solarsoft which takes the output from eis_getwindata and performs binning in the X and/or Y directions while preserving the form of the eis_getwindata structure. Errors on the intensities at each of the binned pixels are correctly calculated.
The routine is called as, e.g.,
IDL> wd=eis_getwindata(l1name,195.12) IDL> wdnew=eis_bin_windata(wd,xbin=2,ybin=2)
-- Peter Young