aXe2web
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aXe2web |
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Since version 1.1 aXe2web uses a
CSS style sheet to
control basic layout features of the generated HTML pages. Instead of using
the css style sheet which comes with the aXe2web installation, the
user can specify a style sheet which should be used for the HTML pages
generated with aXe2web. In this css style sheet the user can give
e.g. fonts and background colours and produce nicer HTML pages or HTML pages
which comply with the corporate identity of the project.
The most reasonable way to develop an individual css file would be to run aXe2web with the default concerning the css style file. aXe2web then copies the default css file into the output directory. With the default style file as the basis, the user can develop his own style file and give its name in the following aXe2web runs in the according parameter setting ('--css_file').
Figure 1 shows different layouts created by varying the default css style file
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The webpages produced by aXe2web may contain a large number of objects. Apart from the aXe2web pages which contain all objects it might be desirable to have web pages which cover only objects selected according certain criteria. Creating sub-catalogues from the main SExtractor catalogue can be very tedious, especially since tools to load/modify/save the SExtractor catalogue format are not available.
In these circumstances it is possible to specify, in a so-called selection file , the ID's of the objects which should be on the HTML files created in the aXe2web run. The selection file is a free format ASCII file which lists, either in one or several rows, the ID's of the objects. Within a row the individual ID's must be separated either with blanks, tabs, , , : , ; or |. Lines which start with a # are discarded as comments. A typical selection file might look as:
################
# OB-stars:
#
3
10
65
21
90
#################
or:
################
# z > 5:
#
5 | 1| 101 | 65
#################
The name of the selection file parameter setting is '--sel_file'. On the HTML pages the objects are ordered as in the selection file in case that no catalogue column for ordering was specified.
aXe2web produces a contiguous set of linked webpages.
The complete set of webpages created in an aXe2web run
consists of individual pages of four different kinds.
The detailed previews for the objects is given on the
object pages.
Some basic information on all
objects is comprised in the overview page.
To facilitate easy access to all objects the
index page offers links to the previews
stored on the object pages. The info page
lists all setting-value pairs which were used to produce the current
webpages.
The filenames of all HTML pages are composed by the expression given with the setting --pagename plus extensions for the different kind of pages ('_pnumber.html' for the object pages, '_over.html', '_index.html', '_info.html' for overview, index and info page, respectively). The setting --overview no restricts aXe2web to making only object pages without overview, index and info pages.
The setting --outputpath specifies the name of a directory where
all output files are transferred to. The directory given in the setting
is created in case that it does not yet exist.
All HTML pages are directly stored in the output directory. The large number
of images (image stamps and graphics) are all
stored in the directory images within the output directory.
It is strongly recommended to use different
output directories for different sets of input files, since file names
for the various graphics (image stamps, spectra) are differentiated only by
object numbers and not by input file names. For example the filename
of the grism stamp image of object number 80 for both SExtractor catalogues
'hdf_n.cat' und 'hdf_s.cat' is 'stampgri80.png'. The stamp images for those
different objects would overwrite each other in case that they
are directed to the same output directory.
The setting --data_out yes creates for every source displayed on an object page a gnu-zipped file with its spectral data. Links lead from the column 'Obj.no.' on the object pages to the ascii-table. These spectra data is stored in the directory images within the output directory.
Figure 2: An object page
The individual columns contain:
Figure 3: An overview page
The content of the columns 'Sequence number', 'Object number', 'Magnitude',
'X-coord','Y-coord', 'RA', 'DEC' correspond to the entries in the
columns 'Seq. no.', 'Obj. no.', 'Magnitude' and 'Image coordinates'
from the object pages.
Links lead from the columns 'Sequence number' and 'Object number'
to the corresponding positions of the objects in the object pages.
Figure 4: An index page
Figure 5: An info page
Gnu-zipped files can be written with the spectral data as spectrumID.dat.gz, with ID the catalogue ID number of the object. The content of the files are the columns LAMBDA, COUNT, ERROR, FLUX, FERROR and CONTAM of the corresponding fits-table extension in the SPC-file. Independent of the values given in the setting --lambda_range, which limit the plotted wavelength range, the spectral data files always contain all data stored in the fits-table extension. The first lines of the spectral data of object 3 (file name: spectrum3.dat.gz) are, for example:
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# Column1: LAMBDA
# Column2: COUNT
# Column3: ERROR
# Column4: FLUX
# Column5: FERROR
# Column6: CONTAM
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# SPC-file: test_aXe_2.SPC.fits
# beamID: 3
#
5.517961e+03 1.398933e-02 3.520326e-03 3.967839e-18 1.134665e-18 0.000000e+00
5.541973e+03 1.410602e-02 3.498247e-03 3.234150e-18 8.984982e-19 0.000000e+00
5.565973e+03 1.906864e-02 3.511872e-03 3.690782e-18 7.915358e-19 0.000000e+00
5.589962e+03 2.209723e-02 3.524950e-03 3.691613e-18 6.826738e-19 0.000000e+00
5.613973e+03 2.145505e-02 3.508735e-03 3.153157e-18 5.675175e-19 0.000000e+00
5.637967e+03 2.703592e-02 3.464569e-03 3.551702e-18 5.057125e-19 0.000000e+00
5.661968e+03 3.025638e-02 3.450644e-03 3.592323e-18 4.487073e-19 0.000000e+00
5.685981e+03 3.011367e-02 3.425225e-03 3.287617e-18 4.009414e-19 0.000000e+00
5.709965e+03 3.043614e-02 3.416627e-03 3.097178e-18 3.747549e-19 0.000000e+00
5.733973e+03 3.055176e-02 3.455406e-03 2.923181e-18 3.547276e-19 0.000000e+00
5.757950e+03 3.314561e-02 3.444102e-03 2.997677e-18 3.401878e-19 0.000000e+00
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| specifies 'file' as the parameter file | |
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| specifies 'file' as the SExtractor catalogue | |
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| specifies 'file' as the direct fits image | |
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| specifies 'file' as the STP (STamP) image file. This FITS-file contains the images of the extracted BEAMS | |
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| specifies 'file' as the extracted spectra (SPC) file. This FITS-file contains the extracted spectra of all BEAMS | |
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| specifies 'string' as the directory to which all output files are written. While the HTML files are written directly in 'string', all images are stored in the directory 'string'/images. Relative and absolute pathnames are accepted. Default: 'outhtml' | |
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| the name of the output HTML file. In case that only one file is created, it's name is 'file.html'. If several pages are created their name is 'file_p1.html', 'file_p2.html' ... 'file_pn.html'. Default: 'axe2web' | |
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| the title in the header of the HTML files (object, overview, info and index pages). This string appears in the bookmarks. Default: 'aXe2web' | |
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| the page-header which appears on top of each page. In case that blanks should appear in the header, they must be enclosed by " ". Default: the SExtractor catalogue name | |
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| | if this setting is given, the objects are ordered in ascending order according to their values in the SExtractor column 'string'. If column name is followed by a '+' the value are sorted in increasing order. A '-' marks the desire for decreasing order. Default: no sorting, increasing |
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| | If the SExtractor catalogue has no column MAG_AUTO, but one or several magnitude columns in the format MAG_F606W or MAG_F850LP (as used in quantitative contamination), the magnitude column with a wavelength closest to the value given in this parameter (in nm) is identified, and all magnitudes displayed on object pages and the overview page are derived from this column. Default: 800.0 |
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| start with the sorted object 'num'. In case that '--sortcolumn' has been given this refers the number refers to the sorted order. Default: 1 | |
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| display num objects on the webpage(s). In case that '--sortcolumn' has been given 'num' objects from the ordered list are shown (starting from the object specified in '--start_object'). Default: all objects | |
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| the number of objects per HTML page. Default: 100 | |
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| the width of the 2D stamp image from the grism exposure. Default: 162pix | |
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| the width of the direct stamp image. Default: 50 pixels | |
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| the lower and upper wavelength cut for the spectra. In case that only one value should be specified, give only one number plus the comma (e.g. '6000,' or ',10000'). Unreasonable values <4000 and >11000 are not accepted, also plotting in descending wavelength is not supported. Default: 5500,10500 | |
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| enables or disables the error bars in the plots of the object spectra. Default: yes | |
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| enables or disables that sources are marked with a cross in the direct image. Default: yes | |
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| if set to 'yes', only the HTML files with the objects in the specified order are created, the stamp images and plots are not done. Default: no | |
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| | If set to 'yes', the overview, index and info pages are created. The overview page lists basic object properties without graphics. The index page gives links to all objects, and the info page lists all the settings chosen for the aXe2web run. Default: yes |
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| | If set to 'yes', a gnu-zipped file with the spectral data is created for each source on the object pages. The file is linked to the object ID number in the corresponding row of the object page. All spectral data files are stored in the directory 'data' within the output directory. Default: no |
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| | The full pathname to the non-standard css file to be used in the html. Default: the default css file from the installation |
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| | The name of the selection file to be used. Integer numbers in the selection file are extracted, and the HTML pages created contain only the catalogue objects with these object ID's. If no sort column was specified, the objects are sorted as in the selection file. |
'option = value'
Here 'option' corresponds to the command line setting without the
leading '--'.
Empty lines are neglected.
Also everything which appears
after a '#' sign is discarded as comment.
Here the file 'fieldU.par' looks as follows:
#------------------------------------------------------------
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# Parameter file for Apples, field U
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pagename = apples_fu
direct_image = direct775w.fits
stamp_image = fieldu_g800l_drz_2.STP.fits
spectr_table = fieldu_g800l_drz_2.SPC.fits
sextract_cat = Sex_F775W.cat
sort_column = MAG_AUTO
pagesize=50
#
#------------------------------------------------------------
This creates the files 'apples_fu_p1.html', 'apples_fu_p2.html' ... 'apples_fu_pn.html'. Each file contains a table where the information on 50 objects is displayed in the table rows. The objects are sorted in ascending magnitude.
Creates the HTML files 'bright_p1.html' ... with the 70 brightest objects from the specified catalogue. Since the images and graphics were just prepared in the first example, only the HTML files are produced here.