• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
• REVISION
• METHODS
• TRANSLATION METHODS
• VARIABLES
• AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT

NAME

Astro::FITS::HdrTrans::IRCAM - Translate FITS headers into generic headers and back again

DESCRIPTION

Describes conversions between generic headers and those for the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope IRCAM infrared camera.

REVISION

$Id: IRCAM.pm,v 1.15 2003/09/17 00:23:41 bradc Exp $

METHODS

These methods provide an interface to the class, allowing the base class to determine if this class is the appropriate one to use for the given headers.

valid_class

  $valid = valid_class( \%headers );

This method takes one argument: a reference to a hash containing the untranslated headers.

This method returns true (1) or false (0) depending on if the headers can be translated by this method.

For this class, the method will return true if the INSTRUME header exists, and its value matches the regular expression /^ircam/i, or if the INSTRUMENT header exists and its value matches the regular expression /^ircam$/i.

TRANSLATION METHODS

These methods provide many-to-one mappings between FITS headers and generic headers. An example of a method defined in this section would be one that converts UT date and UT hour FITS headers into one combined UT datetime generic header. These mappings can also use calculations, for example converting a zenith distance to airmass.

These methods are named backwards from the translate_from_FITS and translate_to_FITS methods in that we are translating to and from generic headers. As an example, a method to convert to a generic airmass header would be named to_AIRMASS.

The format of these methods is to_HEADER and from_HEADER. to_ methods accept a hash reference as an argument and return a scalar value (typically a string). from_ methods accept a hash reference as an argument and return a hash.

to_INST_DHS

Sets the INST_DHS header.

to_COORDINATE_TYPE

Converts the EQUINOX FITS header into B1950 or J2000, depending on equinox value, and sets the COORDINATE_TYPE generic header.

to_COORDINATE_UNITS

Sets the COORDINATE_UNITS generic header to ``degrees''.

to_POLARIMETRY

to_UTDATE

Converts FITS header values into Time::Piece object.

from_UTDATE

Converts UT date in Time::Piece object into YYYYMMDD format for IDATE header.

to_UTSTART

Converts FITS header UT date/time values for the start of the observation into a Time::Piece object.

from_UTSTART

Converts a Time::Piece object into two FITS headers for IRCAM: IDATE (in the format YYYYMMDD) and RUTSTART (decimal hours).

to_UTEND

Converts FITS header UT date/time values for the end of the observation into a Time::Piece object.

from_UTEND

Converts a Time::Piece object into two FITS headers for IRCAM: IDATE (in the format YYYYMMDD) and RUTEND (decimal hours).

to_RA_BASE

Converts the decimal hours in the FITS header RABASE into decimal degrees for the generic header RA_BASE.

from_RA_BASE

Converts the decimal degrees in the generic header RA_BASE into decimal hours for the FITS header RABASE.

VARIABLES

%hdr

Contains one-to-one mappings between FITS headers and generic headers. Keys are generic headers, values are FITS headers.

AUTHOR

Brad Cavanagh <b.cavanagh@jach.hawaii.edu>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.