tsObjSmall Files


The "tsObjSmall" files (eg. tsObjSmallBest.sample8.fits) contains a combination of photometric, spectroscopic, and tiling information for each tiled target.

These files are created from the tsObj files, the sp files and the ti files. In addition to the standard parameters, these files include the flux limits used for galaxies in the area of each target, as well as the seeing.

For reference, here is the fits header:

XTENSION= 'BINTABLE'           /Binary table written by MWRFITS              
BITPIX  =                    8 /Required value                               
NAXIS   =                    2 /Required value                               
NAXIS1  =                  278 /Number of bytes per row                      
NAXIS2  =               213422 /Number of rows                               
PCOUNT  =                    0 /Normally 0 (no varying arrays)               
GCOUNT  =                    1 /Required value                               
TFIELDS =                   32 /Number of columns in table                   
COMMENT                                                                      
COMMENT  *** Column formats ***                                              
COMMENT                                                                      
TFORM1  = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM2  = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM3  = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM4  = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM5  = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM6  = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM7  = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM8  = 'D       '           /                                             
TFORM9  = 'D       '           /                                             
TFORM10 = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM11 = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM12 = '5D      '           /                                             
TFORM13 = '5D      '           /                                             
TFORM14 = '11A     '           /                                             
TFORM15 = '7A      '           /                                             
TFORM16 = '5D      '           /                                             
TFORM17 = 'D       '           /                                             
TFORM18 = 'D       '           /                                             
TFORM19 = 'D       '           /                                             
TFORM20 = 'D       '           /                                             
TFORM21 = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM22 = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM23 = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM24 = 'D       '           /                                             
TFORM25 = 'D       '           /                                             
TFORM26 = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM27 = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM28 = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM29 = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM30 = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM31 = 'J       '           /                                             
TFORM32 = 'J       '           /                                             
COMMENT                                                                      
COMMENT  *** Column Names ***                                                
COMMENT                                                                      
TTYPE1  = 'RUN     '           /                                             
TTYPE2  = 'RERUN   '           /                                             
TTYPE3  = 'CAMCOL  '           /                                             
TTYPE4  = 'FIELD   '           /                                             
TTYPE5  = 'ID      '           /                                             
TTYPE6  = 'CATID   '           /                                             
TTYPE7  = 'STATUS  '           /                                             
TTYPE8  = 'RA      '           /                                             
TTYPE9  = 'DEC     '           /                                             
TTYPE10 = 'PRIMTARGET '        /                                             
TTYPE11 = 'SECTARGET '         /                                             
TTYPE12 = 'PETROCOUNTS '       /                                             
TTYPE13 = 'REDDENING '         /                                             
TTYPE14 = 'TARGETVERSION '     /                                             
TTYPE15 = 'PHOTOVERSION '      /                                             
TTYPE16 = 'PSF_WIDTH '         /                                             
TTYPE17 = 'PET_MAG_LIMIT '     /                                             
TTYPE18 = 'PET_MAG_LIMIT_FUZZ ' /                                            
TTYPE19 = 'PET_SB_LIMIT '      /                                             
TTYPE20 = 'PETSB_DELTASKYCUT_LSB ' /                                         
TTYPE21 = 'PLATE   '           /                                             
TTYPE22 = 'MJD     '           /                                             
TTYPE23 = 'FIBERID '           /                                             
TTYPE24 = 'Z       '           /                                             
TTYPE25 = 'ZERR    '           /                                             
TTYPE26 = 'ZWARNING '          /                                             
TTYPE27 = 'CHUNK   '           /                                             
TTYPE28 = 'TILEID  '           /                                             
TTYPE29 = 'COLLISIONGROUP '    /                                             
TTYPE30 = 'MASK    '           /                                             
TTYPE31 = 'OVERLAP '           /                                             
TTYPE32 = 'FIRSTBOUNDARY '     /                                             
COMMENT                                                                      
COMMENT  *** End of required fields ***                                      
COMMENT                                                                      
END                                                                          

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