The MultiDrizzle Handbook

Chapter 5:
Drizzle Software

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5.1 Available Software
    5.1.1 Original IRAF Tasks
    5.1.2 Currently Supported Tasks
    5.1.3 Supplemental Tasks
5.2 Drizzle
    5.2.1 The IRAF Drizzle Task
    5.2.2 The IRAF Blot Task
    5.2.3 WCS-enabled Dither Tasks
    5.2.4 Coordinate Transformation Tasks
5.3 PyDrizzle
    5.3.1 Introduction
    5.3.2 Parameters
    5.3.3 Basic Examples
    5.3.4 Output Product File Format
5.4 MultiDrizzle
    5.4.1 Introduction
    5.4.2 Software Requirements
    5.4.3 Data and Header Specifics
    5.4.4 Running Under PyRAF
    5.4.5 Running under Python
    5.4.6 Running MultiDrizzle
    5.4.7 MultiDrizzle Parameters
    5.4.8 Initialization
    5.4.9 Static Mask Creation
    5.4.10 Create Separate Drizzled Images
    5.4.11 Create Median Image
    5.4.12 Blot Median Image
    5.4.13 Remove Cosmic Rays
    5.4.14 Create Final Cleaned, Combined Product
    5.4.15 Override Instrument Specific Parameters
5.5 Optimizing the Drizzle Parameters for Your Data
    5.5.1 Creating Custom Association Tables
    5.5.2 Buildasn
    5.5.3 Alignment
    5.5.4 Sky Subtraction
    5.5.5 Cosmic Ray Rejection
    5.5.6 Selecting the Optimal Scale and Pixfrac
    5.5.7 Selecting the `Bits' Parameter