Subject: new IRAF package for DIS spectral reduction

From: Gordon Richards

Submitted: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 06:32:25 -0500 (CDT)

Message number: 68 (previous: 67, next: 69 up: Index)

As a result of a temporary lapse in sanity, I have written an IRAF
package to facilitate the reduction of DIS spectra.  A further lapse
in sanity has caused me to actually write documentation for this
package.  This being the case and the since I know that at least one
other person is interested in such software, I am making the package
available to all.

All the usual WYSIWYG caveats apply, but it may be possible to talk me
into making minor changes, and I will certainly fix bugs if they are
brought to my attention.  The routines are all essentially wrappers to
existing IRAF routines, but I have tailored things towards DIS data
and have tried to remove some of the silliness of IRAF.  The primary
selling point for the package is that an experienced user can produce
a fully publishable flux calibrated spectrum within 5 minutes of
having taken the spectrum at the telescope.  In addition to the usual
extraction and flux calibration of spectra, routines for the
coaddition and variance weighted coaddtion of spectra are also
provided.

The package can be found in
/home/visitor1/gordonr/distools/distools.tar.gz 
on tycho.apo.nmsu.edu.
A README file in the same directory gives installation instructions.

Please feel free to contact me for more information if you are so
inclined.


Gordon
richards@oddjob.uchicago.edu




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