Modules - CIAO 4.1

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Analysis Notes

Matching CIAO and CALDB Versions

CIAO 4.1 requires CALDB 4.1 to operate properly.

CALDB 4.1 should not be used unless you are running CIAO 4.1.

Are your versions mismatched? Update CIAO and CALDB!

News

Previous Items

03 Nov 2009

A new version of the Contributed Scripts and Modules tarfile has been released; download the updated package from the Scripts page.

02 Oct 2009

CIAO 4.1.2 is not officially supported on the Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) platform, but there is a workaround for installing the software in the Unsupported Platforms section of the Platforms page

17 Sep 2009

CALDB has been updated to v4.1.4.

Information on the release is available from the CALDB 4.1.4 Release Notes and How CALDB 4.1.4 Affects Your Analysis.

Download CALDB 4.1.4

Modules for Scientific Analysis

S-Lang and Python modules extend the software by providing access to libraries via the scripting language. A module is a shared object that is dynamically linked into an application during runtime.

There are a number of modules distributed with the CIAO software package in both S-Lang and Python versions:

Module

Description

caldb4

interface to the CALDB library, used to select calibration files for data analysis.

chips

The CIAO plotting package, ChIPS, is available as a module; see "ahelp chips" for more information.

crates

CRATES provides a high level interface for reading input files, accessing and manipulating data, and writing output files.

group

interface to the group library, which bins histogram data based on various user-selected rules.

paramio

interface to the parameter library, which is used to handle parameters in the same manner as the CIAO tools.

pixlib

interface to the pixlib library, which handles conversions between coordinate systems.

region

interface to the region library, used to parse regions and calculate region area.

sherpa

The CIAO modeling and fitting package, Sherpa, is available as a module; see "ahelp sherpa" for more information.

stackio

interface to the stack library, used to create and manipulate stacks.

transform

TRANSFORMS provides a means of applying mathematical operations to data in order to convert it from one reference frame to another.