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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. more...

Current Release

ASAP latest stable version 1.2.1 was released on December, 6^th 2005. 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.

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Welcome to ASAP v1.2.1 (2005/12/06) - the ATNF Spectral Analysis Package

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

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

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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.

List of commands (html)
User Guide(html) or User Guide (pdf)
Reference manual (html) (pdf)
Tutorials

More detailed help is available via the help function.

Download

ASAP source code and binaries are available in the ATNF ftp area

Current stable release source code snapshot asap source
A binary tar archive of the latest stable releaselinux 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.