NOTE!
The links to dropbox in the pdf document are broken. Though they link to the same files that are attached to the original post.

Issue:
Could not import aqutil, please see the online PyRAF FAQ
http://www.stsci.edu/institute/software_hardware/pyraf/pyraf_faq#5.13

Limited graphics available (aqutil not loaded)

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This problem occurs at Step 10, and it is related to the display. As stated in the XDGNIRS manual:

“Most likely things to go wrong: This step is intended to help the Palomar XD group interpret the reduced data and may not work well on other data sets. If this step causes problems, simply run the code with “stop=9” and use your own routines to plot the .txt files output in the previous step. The total counts and FWHM recorded in the data sheet may not be correct for all data sets.”

Therefore, Gemini recommend that you follow that advice and use your own plotting routines.

Also, we would like to point out, also from that manual, Section 7:

“XDGNIRS is not officially supported by Gemini. File a helpdesk request for general questions about GNIRS data and reduction. XDGNIRS-specific questions can be addressed to Rachel Mason, who will attempt to answer on a best-efforts basis, other commitments permitting.”

This software is essentially a community-supported software, especially now that Rachel Mason has left Gemini, and the field. We recommend that you post your questions here on the DR Forum. Maybe someone in the community has solved this problem already and will be able to help.

A colleague suggested that it might still be worth asking the question to help@stsci. While they are no longer supporting Ureka, they try to help with those things on a best effort basis. “aqutil” is a pyraf module, therefore belongs to STScI.

I hope these clarifications help. If you do have a solution, please do post it here!

Hello,

A few years ago there were several useful examples. I think about
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30608926/example_data.tar.gz
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30608926/example_reduction.tar.gz
(they are also given in the doc XDGNIRS_v226.pdf in the latest version of XDGNIRS)

But these links are broken now. Do you know where may I find them?

Many thanks
Simon

Thanks a lot for your answer

Yes that is correctly working, until the step 10
I have to use AstroQuery, but it doesn’t find it (see bellow).
I use Ureka 1.5.2. And yes AstroQuery is not usable with Ureka

I can find AstroQuery in manual line from consol (with Anaconda) but not with the script of xdgnirs (with xdpiped.csh) which uses Ureka.

I don’t know what I am suppose to do. Do I have to force the script to use Anaconda (but this doesn’t have Pyraf)? Do I have to install AstroQuery in Ureka? Other?

Thank you so much for your help
Best
Simon

*************************************
**      Flux Calibration           **
*************************************
##### identifying the standard star and getting magnitudes ....
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/admin/Desktop/TOOLS/XDGNIRS_V2.2.6//mag2mass.py", line 11, in <module>
    from astroquery.simbad import Simbad
ImportError: No module named astroquery.simbad

>>>>>>>>>>>XDGNIRS has encountered a problem:
>>>>>>>>>>>ImportError: No module named astroquery.simbad
>>>>>>>>>>>Check LISTS/Status_inputfiles.txt
>>>>>>>>>>>Stopping the script.

Thank you for your answer Kathleen.

I finally fix my problem with a modification of the GNIRS script. I added a custom line to import modules in anaconda, in the script which needed (mag2mass.py and redshift.py)

sys.path.append("/Users/admin/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages")

With that the script is available to find the astroauery module in the modules list of anaconda.

Simon

Hi,
I managed to reduce the GNIRS data following the script until nsfransform. So I have wavelength calibrated 2-D spectra. I would like to get rid of hot pixels and cosmic rays now. Andre-Nicolas suggested a few methods. I like crmedian but I found that my output files are not MEF anymore. In result I cannot use nsextract to get 1-D spectra. Am I doing something wrong?
The command I used is:
crmedian tel_com[sci,1] output=ctel_com[sci,1]

I would appreciate any tips for cosmic ray removal.

Here is the error message:
nsextract ctel_com[sci,1]
——————————————————————————-
NSEXTRACT — Fri Jun 30 17:29:56 AEST 2017

FAIL: ctel_com[sci,1] – Extension not readable or absent
ERROR – NSEXTRACT: Problem with input images (missing or not MEF).

Cheers,
Lucyna