Level 2 Associations: Technical Specifications

Logical Structure

Independent of the actual format, all Level 2 associations have the following structure. Again, the structure is defined and enforced by the Level 2 schema

• Top level, or meta, key/values

• List of products, each consisting of

  • Output product name template

  • List of exposure members, each consisting of

    • filename of the input exposure

    • Type of exposure

    • Errors from the observatory log

    • Association Candidates this exposure belongs to

Example Association

The following example will be used to explain the contents of an association:

{
    "asn_rule": "Asn_Lv2Spec",
    "asn_pool": "jw82600_001_20160304T145416_pool",
    "program": "82600",
    "asn_type": "spec2",
    "products": [
        {
            "name": "test_lrs1",
            "members": [
                {
                    "expname": "test_lrs1_rate.fits",
                    "exptype": "science"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "test_lrs2bkg",
            "members": [
                {
                    "expname": "test_lrs2bkg_rate.fits",
                    "exptype": "science"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "test_lrs2",
            "members": [
                {
                    "expname": "test_lrs2_rate.fits",
                    "exptype": "science"
                },
                {
                    "expname": "test_lrs2bkg_rate.fits",
                    "exptype": "background"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Association Meta Keywords

The following are the top-level, or meta, keywords of an association.

program optional

Program number for which this association was created.

asn_type optional

The type of association represented. See Association Types

asn_id optional

The association id. The id is what appears in the Naming Conventions

asn_pool optional

Association pool from which this association was created.

asn_rule optional

Name of the association rule which created this association.

version_id optional

Version identifier. DMS uses a time stamp with the format yyyymmddthhmmss Can be None or NULL

constraints optional

List of constraints used by the association generator to create this association. Format and contents are determined by the defining rule.

products Keyword

A list of products that would be produced by this association. For Level2, each product is an exposure. Each product should have one science member, the exposure on which the Level2b processing will occur.

Association products have two components:

name optional

The string template to be used by Level 2b processing tasks to create the output file names. The product name, in general, is a prefix on which the individual pipeline and step modules will append whatever suffix information is needed.

If not specified, the Level2b processing modules will create a name based off the name of the science member.

members required

This is a list of the exposures to be used by the Level 2b processing tasks. This keyword is explained in detail in the next section.

members Keyword

members is a list of objects, each consisting of the following keywords

expname required

The exposure file name

exptype required

Type of information represented by the exposure. Possible values are

• science required

  Primary science exposure. For each product, only one exposure can be science.

• background optional

  Off-target background exposure to subtract.

• imprint optional

  Imprint exposure to subtract.

• sourcecat optional

  The catalog of sources to extract spectra for. Usually produced by calwebb_image3 for wide-field slitless spectroscopy.

Editing the member list

As discussed previously, a member is made up of a number of keywords, formatted as follows:

{
    "expname": "jw_00003_cal.fits",
    "exptype": "science",
},

To remove a member, simply delete its corresponding set.

To add a member, one need only specify the two required keywords:

{
    "expname": "jw_00003_cal.fits",
    "exptype": "science"
},