Output files
Diagnostic files
Two types of files can be generated by SExtractor, providing diagnostics about the source extraction process:
"Check-images" are FITS files containing raster images such as maps of the background model, apertures, etc.. The configuration parameters
CHECKIMAGE_TYPE
andCHECKIMAGE_NAME
allow the user to provide a list of check-image types and file names, respectively, to be produced by SExtractor. A complete list of available check-image types is given in §[chap:paramlist].An XML file providing a processing summary and various statistics in VOTable format is written if the
WRITE_XML
switch is set toY
(the default). TheXML_NAME
parameter can be used to change the default file namesex.xml
. The XML file can be displayed with any recent web browser; the XSLT stylesheet installed together with SExtractor will automatically translate it into a dynamic, user-friendly web-page. For more advanced usages (e.g., access from a remote web server), alternative XSLT translation URLs may be specified using theXSL_URL
configuration parameter.