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Introduction

The ATNF Spectral Analysis Package is a new software package to reduce single-dish, single-pointing spectral line observations. At this stage it is tuned towards data from ATNF instruments and reads/writes rpfits, sdfits and ms data. A release 1.1 of ASAP is available on linux systems at ATNF more...

Screenshots

Here are some example plots.

How to run

To get started, simply type "asap" at the *nix command line prompt.

Loading ASAP...
Initialising plotter...
Welcome to ASAP v1.1 (2005/06/22) - the ATNF Spectral Analysis Package

Please report any bugs to:
asap@atnf.csiro.au

[NOTE: ASAP is 0-based]
Type commands() to get a list of all available ASAP commands.

ASAP>

Documentation

ASAP has a cookbook for general use, and a reference manual for people who want to write scripts to reduce and analyse their data.

List of commands (html)
Cookbook (html) or Cookbook (pdf)
Reference manual (html) (pdf)
Tutorials

More detailed help is available via the help function.

Download

The current release source code snapshot asap source
A binary tar archive linux binary. You will need to have the following libraries:
gcc-3.3, blas, lapack, g2c, boost_python and of course python2.3.
The matplotlib python module has to be installed too.
For Mac OSX 10.4 follow these instructions.

Important

ASAP is 0-based, i.e. all ranges (vectors) go from 0..n-1, if n is the number of elements.