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| Paper: |
Three-dimensional Data Analysis in IRAF and ZODIAC+ |
| Volume: |
125, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VI |
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66 |
| Authors: |
Shopbell, P. L. |
| Abstract: |
Despite the widespread use of \htmladdnormallink{IRAF}{http://iraf.noao.edu/} for astronomical data reduction, there are a number of special-purpose image processing applications for which the general-purpose \htmladdnormallink{IRAF}{http://iraf.noao.edu/} system may not be well suited. One example of this is imaging Fabry-Perot data. Due to the complex three-dimensional data sets, many astronomers with such data employ image processing systems which can easily be extended with additional ``home-grown'' software routines. Chief among these systems is ZODIAC, a mathematical parser-based data reduction environment written by George Miyashiro of the \htmladdnormallink{University of Hawaii}{http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/}. In this paper, we examine the suitability of IRAF 2.10 and ZODIAC+ 1.0 (a recent re-structuring of ZODIAC 1.38) to the problem of imaging Fabry-Perot data analysis, in terms of both ease of use and programming extensibility. We demonstrate that both systems can be viable solutions for the problem of reducing complex three-dimensional data sets. |
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