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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, 6th 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.
Loading ASAP...
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.

ASAP>

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.

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

Important

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