CCfits - HEASARC - NASA

Contents
1 CCfits Documentation 1
1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 About this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 Release Notes for Version 2.4 Dec 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.4 Release Notes For Version 2.3 Nov 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.5 Release Notes For Version 2.2 Sep 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.6 Authors and Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 Installing the Package 5
2.1 Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2.1 Instructions for Building CCfits on UNIX-like platforms: . . . 6
2.2.2 Instructions for Microsft Windows build: . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3 Implementation Notes 8
4 Xspec and CCfits 9
4.1 About XSPEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2 New Data Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3 Modularity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5 Getting Started 10
5.1 Driver Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6 Writing Primary Images and Image Extensions 12
7 Creating and Writing to an Ascii Table Extension 15
8 Creating and Writing to a Binary Table Extension 18
9 Copying an Extension between Files 23
10 Selecting Table Data 24
11 Reading Header information from a HDU 25
12 Reading an Image 26
13 Reading a Table Extension 27
14 Reading with Extended File Name Syntax 28
15 What’s Present, What’s Missing, and Calling CFITSIO 29
15.1 What’s Not Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
15.2 Calling CFITSIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30