atmosphericExtinction (script)

Usage: atmosphericExtinction.py [options]

Compute and/or plot atmospheric extinction from physical parameters, as described in Buton et al. (2013A&A...549A...8B), Atmospheric extinction properties above Mauna Kea from the Nearby Supernova Factory spectro- photometric data set. Default extinction parameters correspond to mean Mauna-Kea summit conditions. Each extinction parameter can be specified using option ‘–param value stderr’.

Options:

--version	show program’s version number and exit
-h, --help	show this help message and exit

Rayleigh parameters:

-p PRESSURE, --pressure=PRESSURE
	Surface pressure [(616.0, 2.0) mbar]

Ozone parameters:

-t FILE.fits, –o3template=FILE.fits

Ozone transmission template

-c O3COLUMN, --o3column=O3COLUMN
	Ozone column density [(257.0, 23.0) DU]

Aerosol parameters:

-d DEPTH, --depth=DEPTH
	Aerosol optical depth at 1 micron [(0.0076, 0.0014)]
-a ANGSTROM, --angstrom=ANGSTROM
	Aerosol Angstrom exponent [(1.26, 1.33)]

Output parameters:

-w START,END,STEP, –wrange=START,END,STEP

Wavelength range [(3200, 10001, 10) A]

-o FILE.txt|fits, –output=FILE.txt|fits

Output table name (.txt|.fits)

-P, --plot	Interactive plot
-T, --transmission
	Plot transmission rather than extinction

If you have found this software useful for your research, we would appreciate a reference to the atmospheric extinction of Buton et al. (2013).

Graphical output of atmosphericExtinction.py -P.