REQUIRED SOFTWARE

1) AIPS:   http://www.aips.nrao.edu/
     Download: http://www.aips.nrao.edu/dec09.shtml
     Cookbook:  http://www.aips.nrao.edu/cook.html   

     Mac Users, see special note: http://www.aips.nrao.edu/Mac.shtml

 

2) CASA:  http://casa.nrao.edu/
     Download:  http://casa.nrao.edu/betarelease.shtml

     CASA training: http://casa.nrao.edu/casatraining.shtml

 

3) DIFMAP:  ftp://ftp.astro.caltech.edu/pub/difmap/difmap.html
     Download: ftp://ftp.astro.caltech.edu/pub/difmap/
     Cookbook: ftp://ftp.astro.caltech.edu/pub/difmap/cookbook.ps.Z

1) HEASOFT (full installation, XSPEC included): http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/lheasoft/

     Download:  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/lheasoft/download.html

 

 2) ISIS: http://space.mit.edu/CXC/ISIS/

     Download: http://space.mit.edu/CXC/ISIS/download.html
     Need S-Lang: http://www.jedsoft.org/slang/

 

** For HEASOFT and ISIS see M. Nowak's installation guide.**

    Please also note the additional ISIS Scripts

 

** For an ISIS introduction see J. Wilms' lecture on X-ray astronomy **

 

3)  CIAO: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/
     Download: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/download/
     Caldb for Ciao: http://cxc.harvard.edu/caldb/
     Ciao scripts: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/download/scripts/

Instructions for installing CIAO software include a set of tests that have to be run at the installation time. So if you installed CIAO, you should have also run the "smoketests" included with the installation.

4) FERMI : http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/

     Download: http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/software/