ASAP Homepage
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.
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Current Release
ASAP latest stable version 2.0 was released on April, 27th 2006. It can be obtained in the Download section.
Screenshots
Here are some example plots.
How to run
To get started, simply type "asap" at the *nix command line prompt.
Loading ASAP...
Welcome to ASAP v2.0 (2006/04/27) - the ATNF Spectral Analysis Package
Please report any bugs via:
http://sourcecode.atnf.csiro.au/cgi-bin/trac_asap.cgi/newticket
[IMPORTANT: ASAP is 0-based]
Type commands() to get a list of all available ASAP commands.
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Defects and enhancement requests
Bugs and enhancement requests can be submitted online, via the
ASAP project tracking page. Please also check if the defect has already been sumbitted under
current tickets.
Documentation
ASAP has a user guide for general use and telescope specific examples,
and a reference manual for people who want to write scripts to reduce
and analyse their data.
More detailed help is available via the help function.
The Trac page
for ASAP also contains information about building from source and code
revisions and milestones. The current
ASAP Mailinglist
There is an asap mailing list asap-users@atnf.csiro.au for users of
asap. This list will be used to announce updates to the code and allow
general user discussion (please send bug and feature requests to
asap@atnf.csiro.au). Messages sent to this list are archived at
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/lists/asap-users
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Download
ASAP source code and binaries are available in the ATNF ftp area
- A binary tar archive of the latest stable release 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.
- Current stable release source code snapshot asap source
You will need a full aips++ installation, or cyou an try and use the
mini-aips++ tree,
necessary to build ASAP.
- The ASAP data package, which contains information about observatories and
coordinate frames can be downloaded here.
You need this if you are building ASAP from source.
Important
ASAP is 0-based, i.e. all ranges (vectors) go from
0..n-1, if n is the number of elements.
