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line fitting tool designed for emission line spectra with low count
numbers
Version : 1.2
Author(s) : Jan-Uwe Ness - (jness@hs.uni-hamburg.de) , Rainer
Wichmann - (rwichmann@hs.uni-hamburg.de)
License : GPL
Website :
http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Ins/Per/Ness/Cora/
Disk space required for installation is 8.11 Mb
Summary
The cora line fitting package consists of seven programs. Help on
command line options can be obtained with the option -h.
cora_fit - this is the main fitting program. It can be used as a
standalone command-line application, or it can be used from the
graphical user interface.
cora_fit requires a parameter file, and a spectrum.
cora - this is the optional graphical user interface, which acts as
a graphical front-end to cora_fit, and significantly facilitates the
use of the latter. Basically, with cora you can:
browse the spectrum and interactively choose lines to fit
interactively set all parameters required by cora_fit,
easily switch between different parameter settings,
call cora_fit with the currently selected parameter settings
obtain updated parameters and graphical output (i.e. plots).
cora_inp - this is a helper application that writes a parameter
file (see below) that is specifically adapted to a particular spectrum.
This program is useful if you do not use the GUI. It
is also used by the GUI itself.
cora_spec - a small program to create an artificial spectrum with a
few lines; for testing purposes.
cora_rgs - converts a fits data file in the format returned by the
XMM SAS task rgsproc into a CORA file
cora_tex - converts the log file into a LATEX table
cora_flux - creates a data file in the CORA format with fluxes
using a given file with effective areas (two columns: wavelengths, area
in cm) and exposure time. WARNING: Not
recommended for obtaining line fluxes with CORA.
In addition, two scripts are provided with the package.
cora_setup.ksh and cora_setup.tcsh can be modified to your system
and executed in order to set environment variables. This customizes the
installation.
cora_rgspipe.sh will reduce XMM-RGS data using the SAS software.
The user has to modify environment variables indicating where SAS is
installed and where the data to be
processed are located.
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