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Table 1.
Overview of all switches and parameters in the main configuration file of the GIST pipeline.
| Config-Switch | Brief description |
|---|---|
| Main switches | |
| DEBUG | Runs pipeline on one central line of pixels |
| VORONOI | Performs Voronoi-binning on the data prior to the analysis |
| GANDALF | Runs the GANDALF module (pyGandALF) on bins or spaxels |
| SFH | Runs the SFH module (regularised pPXF) |
| LINE_STRENGTH | Runs the LS module |
| PARALLEL | Activates multiprocessing |
| NCPU | Number of cores to use for multiprocessing |
| General settings | |
| RUN_NAME | Name of the analysis run |
| IFU | Identifier of the read-in routine |
| LMIN | Minimum rest-frame wavelength [Å] |
| LMAX | Maximum rest-frame wavelength [Å] |
| ORIGIN | Origin of the coordinate system [arcsec] |
| REDSHIFT | Redshift of the system [z] |
| SIGMA | Initial guess of velocity dispersion [km s−1] |
| TARGET_SNR | Target signal-to-noise ratio for the binning |
| MIN_SNR | Minimum signal-to-noise ratio per spaxel to be accepted for the Voronoi binning |
| COVAR_VOR | Corrects for spatial correlations of the noise in the Voronoi binning process |
| SSP_LIB | Defines the spectral template library |
| NORM_TEMP | Normalises the spectral template library to obtain light- or mass-weighted results |
| PPXF settings | |
| MOM | Number of kinematic moments |
| ADEG | Degree of the add. Legendre polynomial |
| MDEG | Degree of the mult. Legendre polynomial |
| MC_PPXF | Number of Monte Carlo simulations used to extract errors on the stellar kinematics |
| GANDALF settings | |
| FOR_ERRORS | Derives errors on the emission-lines |
| REDDENING | Includes the effect of reddening by dust |
| EBmV | De-reddens the spectra for the Galactic extinction in the direction of the target |
| SFH settings | |
| REGUL_ERR | Regularisation error (reciprocal of the pPXF keyword “REGUL”) |
| FIXED | Fixes stellar kinematics to the results obtained with the PPXF module (See correspondent pPXF keyword) |
| NOISE | Passes a constant noise vector to pPXF |
| Line strength settings | |
| CONV_COR | Resolution of the index measurement [Å] |
| MC_LS | Number of Monte Carlo simulations used to extract errors on the LS indices |
| SSP settings | |
| NWALKER | Number of walkers for the MCMC algorithm (used for the conversion of indices to population properties) |
| NCHAIN | Number of iterations in the MCMC algorithm (used for the conversion of indices to population properties) |
Notes. This file contains one line per galaxy in consideration.
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