7.5.9 SXT_COMPOSITE


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7.5.9 SXT_COMPOSITE

   

SXT_COMPOSITE combines two or three SXT images with different exposures into a ``composite'' image. The longest exposure is used as the basis for the final exposure. SXT_COMPOSITE uses the results of SXT_SATPIX to identify the locations of saturated pixels and replaces them with equivalent pixels from the shorter exposure images, scaled for the long exposure image. This routine uses the algorithm that is used to produce the ``sfd'' images in the standard SXT movie. Example calls are:
IDL> cimg = sxt_composite(index,data)
 
IDL> cimg = sxt_composite(index,data,satpix=satpix)

IDL> cimg = sxt_composite(index,data,dc_data,sx=[1,2,3],sd=[0,2,1])
By default, SXT_COMPOSITE will do dark and leak frame subtraction if data is byte-type. The user may optionally specify the dark-frame images in dc_data and will default to unless the explicit X-ray and Dark-frame indices are given in and , respectively.

Note that the replaced pixels are box-car smoothed with a smoothing window of 5 pixels.


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