Reference File Types

The linearity step uses a LINEARITY reference file.

LINEARITY Reference File

REFTYPE:

LINEARITY

Data model:

LinearityModel

The LINEARITY reference file contains pixel-by-pixel polynomial correction coefficients.

Reference Selection Keywords for LINEARITY

CRDS selects appropriate LINEARITY references based on the following keyword attributes. All keyword attributes used for file selection are required.

Instrument	Keyword Attributes
WFI	instrument, detector, date, time

Standard ASDF metadata

The following table lists the attributes that are required to be present in all reference files. The first column shows the attribute in the ASDF reference file headers, which is the same as the name within the data model meta tree (second column). The second column gives the roman data model name for each attribute, which is useful when using data models in creating and populating a new reference file.

Attribute	Fully Qualified Path
author	model.meta.author
model_type	model.meta.model_type
date	model.meta.date
description	model.meta.description
instrument	model.meta.instrument.name
reftype	model.meta.reftype
telescope	model.meta.telescope
useafter	model.meta.useafter

NOTE: More information on standard required attributes can be found here: Standard ASDF metadata

Type Specific Attributes for LINEARITY

In addition to the standard reference file attributes listed above, the following attributes are required in LINEARITY reference files, because they are used as CRDS selectors (see Reference Selection Keywords for LINEARITY):

Attribute	Fully qualified path	Instruments
detector	model.meta.intstrument.detector	WFI

Reference File Format

LINEARITY reference files are ASDF format, with 2 data arrays. The format and content of the file is as follows:

Data	Array Type	Dimensions	Data type
coeffs	NDArray	ncols x nrows x ncoeffs	float32
dq	NDArray	ncols x nrows	uint32

Each plane of the COEFFS data cube contains the pixel-by-pixel coefficients for the associated order of the polynomial. There can be any number of planes to accommodate a polynomial of any order.