Click on the link above to see the latest Evernote guide for getting started with the research group.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
http://www.physics.hmc.edu/Astronomy/Emain.html
A few ways to access it:
emacs filename &will open another window with the editor
emacs -nw filename &will keep emacs in the terminal
http://ds9.si.edu/site/Home.html
This is a tool for viewing images from .fits files; note that it does not work on ALL fits files, just those that store image data.
To open a file, type the following at the command line:
ds9 my_favorite_image.fits &Here’s a DS9 tutorial I wrote in college:
http://www.physics.hmc.edu/Astronomy/ds9main.html
You will be using a data reduction software package called CIAO, created by CXC. Their online help pages are written as step-by-step tutorials called “science threads"
Introductory threads : http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/threads/intro.html
More detailed science threads, sorted by category : http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/threads/index.html
This is an online tool for searching the set of all Chandra observations and the Chandra archive
http://cda.harvard.edu/chaser/
You will need this tool for analyzing high resolution spectroscopic data from Chandra.
For all software used within our group, we need the latest versions of S-lang and the Remeis ISIS scripts. I have created detailed instructions for a clean Linux install here: https://www.evernote.com/l/ASYR3kI8V_NEfZvYKIYhZULCWAhXFREhOl0
For all other users
Tutorials for installing this tool:
You will also need to download and set up the Remeis ISIS scripts. Follow the directions here: http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/isis/
Links to many tutorials and presentations on how to use ISIS can be found on the 2015 workshop website: