Definition of the redshift tomographic bins

[Calibration/Input Product]

Metadata

Data product name

DpdTomographicBins

Data product custodian

PHZ

Name of the Schema file

euc-phz-TomographicBins.xsd

Processing Element(s) creating/using the data product

  • This product is produced outside of the pipeline and used as input by PHZ

Processing function using the data product

  • PHZ PF input product.

This product contains a FITS file expected to follow the format described by the phz.tomographicBins version 0.9 and containing a binary table. The table contains the definition of the boundaries of the tomographic bins. The tables columns are:

Catalog: 3 columns table

Name

Description

Unit

Format

BIN_ID

Tomographic bin s identifier

NA

FITS J

BIN_START

Lower redshift bound of the tomographic bin (included)

NA

FITS E

BIN_STOP

Upper redshift bound of the tomographic bin (excluded)

NA

FITS E

and it has a header keyword: NBIN which is the number of bin.