On Thursday 14 October 2004 2:02 pm, ritika.uppal@yale.edu wrote:
I have another question. I have started from the beginning so that I could follow all of Shelly's suggestions. I also looked up your start guide for artemis fitting in which it says u can click the "fit background" button if u see low R peaks. And then in the end it says to click the "use previous background" button. but I can't seem to find it. Could anyone direct me??
That page is rather out of date. The procedure for dealing with the fitted background changed somewhat. Here's the current situation: 1. Co-refine the background by selecting the fit background button. 2. Play around with the value of Rmin to get a good background co-refinement without undue correlations with the fitting parameters. These correlations are reported in the log file. I would say that this procedure helps remove some of the mystery as the "correct" value for Rbkg -- the cutoff in Fourier space between background and data. If the correlations are quite high, that value is probably too high since you may be damaging the data by allowing the spline too much freedom. 3. In the Data menu is an option that says 'Save background subtracted as chi(k)'. This will write a file containing the data with the fitted spline subtracted out to the project space. You will then be offered an opportunity to replace the data with the background subtracted data. 4. Choosing to import the background subtracted data will change the data and unselect the "fit background" button. 5. You can now continue along with your data analysis, using the newly background-subtracted data. 6. If you ever want to return to the non-background-subtracted data, select "Project data -> Import project data" from the File menu. This will open the file selection dialog in the folder where the project's data is stored. You will see the original data along with the background-subtracted data and any other data you might have (at some point) imported into your project. HTH, B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 405 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 2268 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 4642 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/