magic_user_guide

JWST MAGIC: User's Guide

How to use the Multi-Application Guiding Interface for Commissioning (MAGIC) for simulated and real JWST data during JWST's OTE Commissioning.

Authors:

• Shannon Osborne
• Keira Brooks
• Lauren Chambers
• Sherie Holfeltz

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Table of Contents

I. Introduction

     Description of the different tools available in MAGIC

II. Setting Up

     Pull latest version of the MAGIC repository

III. Determining and Loading the Input Image

     Load an image that you will use for running the MAGIC tools

IV. Selecting Guide & Reference Stars for an Input Image and Writing Files

     Select the guide and reference stars to be used for the image loaded in Section III

V. Contingency: Re-selecting Stars

     If the Flight software simulator failed on selected guide and reference stars, re-run MAGIC with new guide and reference star selections

VI. Writing the Segment Override File

     Create the Segment Override File for situations with more than one PSF for a guide star

VII. Writing the Photometry Override File

     Create the Photometry Override File for situations with one, un-phased, PSF for a guide star

Appendices

A. Mirror States Expected During JWST OTE Commissioning