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Arc Solutions and Object Extraction

Telluric Correction / Flux Calibration

Observations of A0V stars are used both for telluric absorption and relative flux calibration.  The procedure is outlined in Vacca, Cushing, & Rayner (2003), and implemented in the xtellcor routine of their SpeX pipeline, Spextool.  We have ported xtellcor for use with FIRE, and refer users to the relevant xtellcor documentation to see how this procedure is performed in practice. 

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