Step Arguments

The wfss_contam step uses the following optional arguments.

--save_simulated_image

A boolean indicating whether the full-frame simulated grism image containing all simulated spectra within the field-of-view should be saved to a file. The file name uses a product type suffix of “simul”. Defaults to False.

--save_contam_images

A boolean indicating whether the estimated contamination images for each source cutout should be saved to a file. The file name uses a product type suffix of “contam”. The resulting file has one SCI extension for each source contained in the input grism image. Defaults to False.

--maximum_cores

The fraction of available cores that will be used for multi-processing in this step. The default value is ‘none’ which does not use multi-processing. The other options are ‘quarter’, ‘half’, and ‘all’. Note that these fractions refer to the total available cores and on most CPUs these include physical and virtual cores.