MAG N1 N2 COMP FILT OUT -- Computes the relative magnitude of a list of stars compared to a template star by integration over a bandpass provided by the user. Parameters: N1 -- First object spectrum N2 -- Last object spectrum COMP -- Star to compare with FILT -- Table of data with columns of wavelength and response. The wavelengths (angstroms) should monotonically increase but do not have to be uniform. Response (QE) should go to zero at ends. OUT --for terminal only name -- for a file name !name to store in real header with name = name Details: the magnitude is photon weighted. i.e. it is assumed that you would measure it with a detector that reponds to the number of incdent photons. This ends up as an integral over filt*fnu*dlambda/lambda. The table will be linearly interpolated between values, but it is taken to be constant outside the range of the wavelength. Therefore the response should go to zero at either end if you want a finite bandwidth. The integration will not extend beyond the ends of the spectrum. Masked regions are ignored, i.e. they are effectively set to zero. The output is the magnitude of the target spectra - magnitude of COMP
This command belongs to the class: measurement