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HEASoft
A Unified Release of the
FTOOLS and
XANADU
Software Packages
The current version of HEASoft is 6.31.1
(19 December 2022)
| XANADU |
High-level, multi-mission tasks for X-ray astronomical
spectral, timing, and imaging data analysis |
| FTOOLS |
General and mission-specific tools to manipulate
FITS files |
| FITSIO |
Core library responsible for reading and writing FITS files |
| fv |
General FITS file browser/editor/plotter with a graphical user
interface |
| XSTAR |
Tool for calculating the physical conditions and emission spectra
of photoionized gases |
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Download
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Users may download either
the source code for the software and compile the tools themselves,
or download precompiled executables for
the most widely used computer platforms.
The HEASoft Release Notes 6.31.1
give an overview of changes since HEASoft version 6.31.
Current downloads are 6.31.1. To update a 6.31 installation to 6.31.1,
please visit the HEASoft patch page.
For a list of known issues in the latest release, visit the
HEASoft Known Issues page.
For help installing HEASoft on your system, please visit the appropriate link here:
For guidance about removing a HEASoft installation from your system, visit the
uninstall page.
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See Also
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- HEASoft & Docker:
Install HEASoft in a Docker container
- HEASoftPy:
A Python interface to HEASoft
- SciServer:
HEASARC software & data on the SciServer platform (Beta)
- Hera:
Run HEASoft tasks on the Hera servers at the
HEASARC instead of installing the software locally.
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Mailing List
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To receive notices of HEASOFT releases, subscribe to the
"FTOOLS Notes" mailing list by sending an e-mail with
empty Subject and in the body "subscribe"
to ftoolsnotes-join@lists.nasa.gov
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Documentation
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HEASoft Developers Guide:
Basic developers guide for HEASoft is available online.
HEASP Developers Guide:
Developers guide for the HEASP Spectral Library is available online.
PIL Developers Guide:
Developers guide for the Parameter Interface Library is available online.
Xselect Users' Guide v2.4:
Available online and as pdf (256K) and tarred HTML (77K) files.
Xspec Users' Guide:
Available online
and as postscript (84K), tarred HTML (544K), and PDF (1.2M) files.
Ximage Users' Guide:
Available online
and as postscript (396K), tarred HTML (120K), and LaTeX (88K) files.
Xronos Users' Guide:
Available online
and as postscript (392K), tarred HTML (148K), and LaTeX (108K) files.
Previous Release Notes:
6.31,
6.30.1,
6.30,
6.29,
6.28,
6.27.2,
6.27.1,
6.27,
6.26.1,
6.26,
6.25,
6.24,
6.23,
6.22.1,
6.22,
6.21,
6.20,
6.19,
6.18,
6.17,
6.16,
6.15.1,
6.15,
6.14,
6.13,
6.12,
6.11.1,
6.11,
6.10,
6.9,
6.8,
6.7,
6.6.3,
6.6.2,
6.6.1,
6.6,
6.5.1,
6.5,
6.4.1,
6.4,
6.3.2,
6.3.1,
6.3,
6.2,
6.1.2,
6.1.1,
6.1,
6.0.6,
6.0.5,
6.0.4,
6.0.3,
6.0.2,
6.0,
5.3.1,
5.3,
5.2,
5.1A,
5.1,
5.0,
4.2,
4.1,
4.0,
3.6,
3.5,
3.4,
3.3,
3.2
FTOOLS HELP DESK
If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this
site (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools) and use the
ASCL reference for HEASoft
[ascl:1408.004] or the
ASCL reference for the original FTOOLs paper
[ascl:9912.002]:
Blackburn, J. K. 1995, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 77, Astronomical
Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne,
and J. J. E. Hayes (San Francisco: ASP), 367.
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Bryan K. Irby
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