sextract.sex

 
#-------------------------------- Catalog ------------------------------------
 
CATALOG_NAME    test.cat        # not used; command line forces
CATALOG_TYPE    ASCII_HEAD      # "NONE","ASCII_HEAD","ASCII","FITS_1.0"
                                # or "FITS_LDAC"
 
PARAMETERS_NAME sextract.param   # name of the file containing catalog contents
 
#------------------------------- Extraction ----------------------------------
DETECT_TYPE     CCD             # "CCD" or "PHOTO"
FLAG_IMAGE	dummy_flag.fits
DETECT_MINAREA  3.               # minimum number of pixels above threshold
DETECT_THRESH   10.              # <sigmas> or <threshold>,<ZP> in mag.arcsec-2
ANALYSIS_THRESH 10.              # <sigmas> or <threshold>,<ZP> in mag.arcsec-2
 
FILTER          N               # apply filter for detection ("Y" or "N")?
DEBLEND_NTHRESH 64              # Number of deblending sub-thresholds; was 64
DEBLEND_MINCONT 0.01           # Minimum contrast ; was .0001
# 
CLEAN           Y               # Clean spurious detections? (Y or N)?
CLEAN_PARAM     0.1             # Cleaning efficiency
 
MASK_TYPE       NONE         # type of detection MASKing: can be one of
                                # "NONE", "BLANK" or "CORRECT"
INTERP_MAXXLAG	1		# interpolate over mask, but only by 1 pixel
INTERP_MAXYLAG  1
INTERP_TYPE     ALL
WEIGHT_TYPE	NONE	#be sure to put the mask on the command line!
 
#------------------------------ Photometry -----------------------------------
 
PHOT_APERTURES  5               # MAG_APER aperture diameter(s) in pixels
PHOT_AUTOPARAMS 2.5, 3.5        # MAG_AUTO parameters: <Kron_fact>,<min_radius>
 
SATUR_LEVEL     53000.0         # level (in ADUs) at which arises saturation
 
MAG_ZEROPOINT   0.0             # magnitude zero-point
MAG_GAMMA       4.0             # gamma of emulsion (for photographic scans)
GAIN            1.2             # detector gain in e-/ADU
PIXEL_SCALE     0.363          # size of pixel in arcsec (0=use FITS WCS info)
#------------------------- Star/Galaxy Separation ----------------------------
 
SEEING_FWHM     1.0             # stellar FWHM in arcsec
#STARNNW_NAME    /home/mbrown/subaru/hscproc/sextract/quest/default.nnw     # Neural-Network_Weight table filename
 
#------------------------------ Background -----------------------------------
 
BACK_SIZE       20              # Background mesh: <size> or <width>,<height>
BACK_FILTERSIZE 3               # Background filter: <size> or <width>,<height>
 
BACKPHOTO_TYPE  LOCAL          # can be "GLOBAL" or "LOCAL"
 
#------------------------------ Check Image ----------------------------------
 
CHECKIMAGE_TYPE OBJECTS            # can be one of "NONE", "BACKGROUND",
                                # "MINIBACKGROUND", "-BACKGROUND", "OBJECTS",
                                # "-OBJECTS", "SEGMENTATION", "APERTURES",
                                # or "FILTERED"
CHECKIMAGE_NAME check.fits      # Filename for the check-image
 
#--------------------- Memory (change with caution!) -------------------------
 
MEMORY_OBJSTACK 50000            # number of objects in stack
MEMORY_PIXSTACK 10000000          # number of pixels in stack
MEMORY_BUFSIZE  24000            # number of lines in buffer
 
#----------------------------- Miscellaneous ---------------------------------
 
VERBOSE_TYPE    NORMAL          # can be "QUIET", "NORMAL" or "FULL"