Output files

20150526 incomplete / outdated: being updated

At the end of the processing of each star, MyGIsFOS produces an extensive output describing the results in detail and allowing to follow the various steps of the analysis. The entire output is contained into a directory named STAR_name-of-the-star. If the directory exists already, all it's content is backed up within the new version of the output directory, in a subdirectory called backup_timestamp_of_the_new_run (e.g., you run on 15/10/2014 a star called 13p14 that had been run before, MyGIsFOS create a new STAR_13p14 and back up the old one as STAR_13p14/backup_20141015113531).

Within the STAR_ folder, MyGIsFOS writes a number of output files, all but one in ASCII format. All the ASCII files begin with a timestamp (as the one in the backup directory above) listing (yyyymmddhhmmss) the time of the beginning of the run. This means that all the stars processed together will have the same timestamp, even if the run lasted hours. This allows to always track back in which run a file has been generated.

A description of the various output files follows (please notice some long lines might be wrapped in the Evernote online format):

This file resumes the main results of the analysis, namely the final atmospheric parameters and the averaged abundances of all the measured ions.

	
#TIMESTAMP: 20140715050744
#Star name & atmosphere parameters
#NAME Teff log g vturb [Fe/H] [alpha/Fe] tot. loops loop limit?
# 17482159 4870.8 2.87 1.32 0.02 0.03 492 0
##########################################################################################
#Determined abundances
# N Ion Nlin Asun Abu [X/H] Sigma [X/Fe] Sigma
Na 11 0 2 6.30 6.36 0.06 0.0292 0.03 0.0788
Al 13 0 2 6.47 6.52 0.05 0.0258 0.02 0.0775
Si 14 0 2 7.52 7.59 0.07 0.0137 0.05 0.0744
Si 14 1 2 7.52 7.50 -0.02 0.0798 -0.05 0.1730
S 16 0 1 7.16 7.09 -0.07 NaN -0.09 NaN
Ca 20 0 3 6.33 6.36 0.03 0.0267 0.00 0.0779
Ti 22 0 4 4.90 4.95 0.05 0.0475 0.03 0.0872
V 23 0 5 4.00 3.90 -0.10 0.0711 -0.12 0.1020
Fe 26 0 29 7.52 7.54 0.02 0.0731 0.00 0.1034
Fe 26 1 6 7.52 7.55 0.03 0.1534 0.00 0.2170
Co 27 0 1 4.92 4.98 0.06 NaN 0.04 NaN
Ni 28 0 6 6.23 6.20 -0.03 0.1004 -0.05 0.1242
Zn 30 0 1 4.62 4.51 -0.11 NaN -0.13 NaN
##########################################################################################
#Fe1-Fe2: -0.008 / 0.050 Vt Slope: 0.00 / 0.10 Exc. Slope: 0.00008
	
	

In the parameters line, the last number is a flag indicating if the star has run past the max number of loops (i.e., has failed to converge). 0 means convergence has been achieved. For [X/Fe] ratios, if Fe II has been measured, [X/FeII] is given for ionized species and [X/FeI] for neutral species. If only Fe I has been measured, it is used for all the species.