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HEASoft
A Unified Release of the
FTOOLS and
XANADU
Software Packages
The current version of HEAsoft is 6.25
(23 October 2018)
| 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
(distributed with FTOOLS) |
| fv |
General FITS file browser/editor/plotter with a graphical user
interface (distributed with FTOOLS) |
| 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 the precompiled executables for
the most widely used computer platforms.
The HEAsoft Release Notes 6.25
give an overview of changes since HEASOFT version 6.24.
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:
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Mailing List
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To receive notices of HEASOFT releases, subscribe to the FTOOLS
Notes mailing list by visiting
https://lists.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/ftoolsnotes
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Documentation
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HEASOFT Developers Guide:
Basic developers guide for HEASOFT 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:
6.24,
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
Help lines:
FTOOLS
or
xanprob@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Bryan K. Irby
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