Utility Programs
These utility and data reduction programs installed on the CSO computers may be helpful for observers. Please let us know if you think something should be added.
| command | What does it do? | remarks | More info |
| Data reduction | |||
| gildas | Grenoble data reduction package | http://iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS | |
| astro | observation planning | ||
| class | spectroscopic data reduction | ||
| greg | graphics | ||
| atm | Juan Pardo's atmospheric transmission model | http://cab.inta-csic.es/users/jrpardo/atm.html | |
| ds9 | SAOimage ds9 | http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9 | |
| idl | IDL | http://www.exelisvis.com/ProductsServices/IDL.aspx | |
| pgplot | graphics | library | http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot |
| wip | graphics | http://bima.astro.umd.edu/wip | |
| orrery | Orrery | ||
| planets | Sub-millimeter flux densities for planets and beam efficiencies | ||
| fits utilities | |||
| fitgauss | |||
| imsmooth | |||
| imsum | |||
| Sharc utilities | |||
| boxsccan | design box scans | ||
| sharcsolve | |||
| sharccal | |||
| sharcgap | |||
| sharclog | |||
| sharcsmooth | |||
| sharcstat | |||
| sharctau | |||
| FTS and holography | |||
| ftsana | Analyze FTS data | ||
| ftsmap | Holography maps from FTS data | ||
| ftssurf | Holography analysis | ||
| Old packages, no longer installed | |||
| These could be reinstalled if sufficient interest | |||
| xclass | class variant | http://www.astro.uni-koeln.de/projects/schilke/XCLASS | |
| fv | Fits viewer | http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/fv.html | |
| sm | Super Mongo; graphics | http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/sm | |
| uap | Todd Hunter's Unified Astronomical Package. Includes: | ||
| atplot | Erich Grossman's atmospheric transmission model for Mauna Kea | ||
| atp3 | atplot variant | ||
| coord | Coordinate converter | ||
| dsb | atplot with calibration corrections for both signal and image sidebands | ||
| go2000 | Coordinate converter | ||
| highz | Calculates the redshifted line frequencies | ||
| linecat | Lists molecular lines in a given frequency range, with contributions from both the JPL catalog and the Lovas catalog | ||
| planck | Fit a grey body SED | ||
