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dmimghist

Synopsis

Create a histogram of the pixel values in a 2-D image

Syntax

dmimghist  infile outfile hist [strict] [clobber] [verbose]

Description

'dmimghist' creates a histogram of the pixel value distribution in a two-dimensional image and writes it out as a FITS binary table. The table contains columns for bin number, bin minimum, bin maximum, counts in each bin, and the normalized counts in each bin.

The tool accepts an input file, and output file, and a binning specification. The binning specification is of the form

[a]:[b][:c] | c

where a is the low bin, b is the high bin, and c is the bin size. If strict=no, values lower than the lowest specified bin are assigned to the low bin and values greater than the highest specified bin are assigned to the high bin. If strict=yes, out-of-range values are ignored. If the low bin or high bin (or both) is unspecified, it will be automatically determined by scanning the file for the minimum and/or maximum values present.

If the input is a table (e.g. event file), dmimghist will open it as an image, creating on-the-fly the default image for that table (usually the full resolution sky image).

Use of stacks

The input, output, and binning parameters can accept a stack. An equal number of input and output filenames must be specified. Either a single binning specification or a stack of specifications (equal to the number of inputs) may be supplied.

Format of output table

The output table has five columns called BIN, BIN_LOW, BIN_HIGH, COUNTS and NORMALIZED_COUNTS. COUNTS represents the number of pixels in the input image which have pixel values in the range covered by BIN_LOW and BIN_HIGH. BIN_LOW denotes the lower end of the range of pixel values in a BIN. BIN_HIGH indicates the (non-inclusive) upper limit of pixel values in a BIN. The NORMALIZED_COUNTS column is calculated by dividing the COUNTS column by the sum of the COUNTS column.

Examples

Example 1

dmimghist acis.fits hist.fits 1:100:2

Make a histogram with 50 bins of size 2, starting at 1.

BIN will have the values 1,3,5... in succeeding rows, denoting ranges 1 to 2 (first row), 3 to 4 (second row), 5 to 6 (third row).

COUNTS(row) gives the number of pixels in the input image which have a value equal to or more than BIN_LOW(row) but less than BIN_HIGH(row). However, the end bins (first and last row of the table) include counts beyond the ends - if strict=no - so the first row actually contains the number of pixels with any pixel value less than 3.

Example 2

dmimghist acis.fits hist.fits 1:100:2 strict=yes

As in the previous example, except that the end bins no longer contain the counts for pixels below (for the minimum bin) or above (for the maximum bin) their range. This also affects the values of the NORMALIZED_COUNTS column, since the sum of the COUNTS column is used for the normalization.

Example 3

dmimghist acis.fits hist.fits :100:2

Make a histogram with bins size 2, maximum bin 100, and minimum bin equal to the smallest value in the file.

Example 4

dmimghist @in.lis @out.lis @bins.lis

Bin each of the files in in.lis according to the corresponding binning spec in bins.lis, and create the files named in out.lis. There must be the same number of entried in in.lis, out.lis, and bins.lis.

So, if the contents of the files are

  unix% cat in.lis
  img1.fits
  img2.fits
  unix% cat out.lis
  hist1.fits
  hist2.fits
  unix% cat bins.lis
  1::0.5
  1:200:10

then this is equivalent to running dmimghist on img1.fits to create hist1.fits using a binning specification of 1::0.5, and on img2.fits to create img2.fits using a binning specification of 1:200:10.

Example 5

dmimghist @in.lis @out.lis 1::5

This is similar to the previous example except that the same binning specification - here "1::5" - is used on each file in in.lis to create the files listed in out.lis. There must be the same number of file in in.lis and out.lis.

Parameters

name	type	ftype	def	min	max	reqd	stacks
infile	file	input				yes	yes
outfile	file	output				yes	yes
hist	string					yes	yes
strict	boolean		no
clobber	boolean		no
verbose	integer		0	0	5

Detailed Parameter Descriptions

Parameter=infile (file required filetype=input stacks=yes)

The input virtual file specification.

If the input is a table, it will be opened as an image, using the default image columns for the table. For instance, if an event list is given, the image will be a full-resolution sky image (unless explicitly binned).

The image must have two dimensions.

Parameter=outfile (file required filetype=output stacks=yes)

The output file(s).

Parameter=hist (string required stacks=yes)

The binning specification.

The binning specification is of the form

[a]:[b][:c] | c

where a is the low bin, b is the high bin, and c is the bin size. The behavior for the minimum and maximum bins is controlled by the strict parameter.

Parameter=strict (boolean default=no)

Strict binning selection. "Yes" means values below the lowest bin and above the greatest bin are ignored when calculating the COUNTS and NORMALIZED_COUNTS columns.

Parameter=clobber (boolean default=no)

If outfile already exists, clobber=yes will allow you to overwrite it.

Parameter=verbose (integer default=0 min=0 max=5)

Verbose can be from 0 to 5, generating different amounts of output.

Bugs

There are no known bugs for this tool.