After completing the wavelength calibration, the
button in the Mainwindow allows to rebin spectra to wavelength.
The Rebinning window offers three methods: linear, quadratic, or
spline transformations. The first two provide flux conservation.
The spline option does not incorporate a detailed conservation of flux.
The button
activates the row-by-row solution
corresponding to the MIDAS command REBIN/RBR. The button
resamples by a bivariate polynomial solution
and activates the command RECTIFY/LONG. The 2-D solution has
been generated by the wavelength calibration process only if the
option ``Compute 2-D solution'' in the Wavelength Calibration window
has been selected before calibration. The button
allows to generate a table as output format and therefore avoid
to resample the data. This table can be plotted with the button
.
Clicking on one of the Rebin buttons pops up a list of .bdf
files in the directory. Click the name of the selected file.
A small prompt window appears requesting the name of the output file. The
default is the input file name with the suffix _reb. The
button
uses the name of the output table generated
by
.
The rebinning processes use the Starting, Final wavelength and Step parameters defined in the Rebinning window. If these parameters are not given, default values derived from the wavelength calibration coefficients are used. The progress in the rebinning process is reported in the MIDAS window.