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- General radio astronomical processing
- AIPS++ provides
facilities for calibration, editing, image formation, image
enhancement, and analysis of images and other astronomical data. A
major focus is on reduction of data from both single-dish and aperture
synthesis radio telescopes. Although the tools provided in
AIPS++ are mainly designed for processing data from varieties
of radio telescopes, the package is expected to also be useful for
processing other types of astronomical data and images.
- Tool-based approach
- AIPS++ has been designed to be tool-based
and potentially programmable by the user. This means that terminology
and the look and feel of AIPS++ is somewhat different from
other astronomical processing packages. However, after a little bit
of getting used to, you will find that most of the tools and
applications that an astronomer is looking for (and hopefully many
more) are available.
- Access to all data
- In AIPS++, the user has direct
access to all portions of a data set or an image. Therefore, all
aspects of the data can be manipulated at will using either existing
applications in AIPS++, or user developed applications, or
simply using calculator-type commands from the terminal.
- Graphical Interfaces
- AIPS++ is designed to take
advantage of modern computer software and hardware. Mouse-driven
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are used extensively for handling
various applications, computations, and image display.
- Web-based documentation
- In order to access the extensive
AIPS++ reference material and other documentation, the
Help menu that appears on most GUIs can directly steer a Web
browser to the appropriate section. For those of you who are more
comfortable with a type-on-terminal approach, AIPS++ can be
completely controlled from the Command Line window. A combination of
both Command Line window and GUI windows is probably most appropriate.
- Powerful interactive command language
- The command language used
in AIPS++ is called Glish. This is a very capable
interactive programming language which allows high level operations on
vectors and arrays. All data can be accessed and manipulated from
Glish and placed back into AIPS++. Tasks in
AIPS++ are written in C++
for efficiency and bound to Glish, therefore, all
capabilities of interest to the user are controllable from the
Glish Command Line window.
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