A simple command-line tool for extracting electron temperatures from wedge image plate data To use, call the command
python analyze_xwrf.py SHOT_NUMBER WEDGE_ID [--distance=DISTANCE] [--filter=FILTER_THICKNESS] [--nose] [--cr39]where SHOT_NUMBER is any substring that uniquely identifies the file you want to analyze (most
likely the shot number) and WEDGE_ID is the ID of the wedge range filter (for example, "G069").
If you care about absolute emission, you’ll want to use --distance to specify the
standoff distance in centimeters, but if you don’t care then you can leave this out.
If you fielded the image plate with more filtering than just the wedge, then specify it in the
remaining optional arguments. Using --filter adds a flat aluminium filter; specify the thickness in
micrometers by replacing FILTER_THICKNESS. Using --nose adds an aluminium nose cap and is
equivalent to --filter=300 (note that they do stack, so feel free to use both). Using --cr39
adds a standard 1500 μm piece of CR-39.
The program will print out the result and show you some plots of the data so that you can judge for yourself that it found the fiducials and fit the data correctly.
If you have multiple shots to analyze, feel free to edit analyze_all_xwrfs.py and then simply call
python analyze_all_xwrfs.pyI think that script is pretty self-explanatory.