Pat Hall's Infrared Imaging Reduction Software
Version : 2.11.1
Author(s) : Pat Hall
License : Free
Website : http://iraf.noao.edu
Installs from Open Source Astronomy for Win32/Cygwin cd 2
Disk space required for installation is 1.11 Mb
This package requires prior installation of iraf
Spawned from original tasks by Doug Williams & Anne Turner and including many cannibalized parts from DIMSUM (Dickinson et al).
v.0 950714 Spawned from original tasks by Doug Williams & Anne Turner and including many cannibalized parts from the DIMSUM package (Dickinson et al.). Read "phiirs.hlp" for an introduction.
v.1 960226 Minor revisions. Read "phiirs.hlp" for an introduction.
v.2 960711 Major revisions and additions; tasks are now available for complete reduction from raw data to images suitable for input to FOCAS or such. Read "phiirs.hlp" for an introduction. The entire package is available as a compressed tarfile from "http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~hall/phiirsold.tar.gz". Replace "iterstat.cl" with "iterstatold.cl" if problems occur.
v.2.10 980314 Final release for IRAF Version 2.10. Read "phiirs.hlp" for an introduction and overview. NOTE that several perl scripts (included with the package) are used for image coaddition if the CTIO package is unavailable. Several awk scripts are also used for photometric scaling tasks. Entire package available as a compressed tarfile from "http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~hall/phiirs.tar.gz". To install, enter the proper pathnames in "phiirs.cl" and "phiirs.hd", load the softools IRAF package, and type "mkhelpdb root.hd helpdb.mip", deleting the old helpdb.mip if necessary. See "sample.loginuser.cl" for how to include the package in your default IRAF startup.
For this & subsequent versions PHIIRS can now handle the DATE-OBS keyword in both "old" format "dd/mm/yy" and the new millenium format "yyyy-mm-dd" (affects first.cl, irimfirst.cl, and irtffirst.cl only). Currently I believe the IRAF astutil.setairmass task only accepts old format, but presumably any update to it will be backwards compatible.
v.2.11 980805 IRAF V2.11 + FITS kernel release. Read "phiirs.hlp" for an introduction and overview. Default image extension is now assumed to be "fits" instead of "imh". I don't guarantee that all tasks are 100% compatible with V2.11, but all problems I've encountered in 5+ months of use have been fixed. NOTE that several perl scripts (included with the package) are used for image coaddition if the CTIO package is unavailable. Several awk scripts are also used for photometric scaling tasks. Entire package available as a compressed tarfile from "http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~hall/phiirs211.tar.gz". To install, enter the proper pathnames in "phiirs.cl" and "phiirs.hd", load the softools IRAF package, and type "mkhelpdb root.hd helpdb.mip", deleting the old helpdb.mip if necessary. See "sample.loginuser.cl" for how to include the package in your default IRAF startup.
v.2.11.1 990415/990519 New V2.11 release including "dophiirs.cl" script task. Read "phiirs.hlp" and "doc/dophiirs.hlp" for an introduction and overview. Other changes from v.2.11 (besides inevitable bug fixes): renamed task "irflat2.cl" to "domeflat.cl"; added tasks "cfhtfirst.cl", "onisfirst.cl", & "piscesfirst.cl" for use with particular telescope/ instrument combinations; better "irshift.cl", "qkflat.cl" & "qksky.cl"; "nshift.cl" task added for finding offsets for N images or image sets overlapping a central image, and "onis6ew.cl" & "onis3ew.cl" included as examples of how to build a large mosaic from individual image sets; and streamlined tasks for faster reduction of large IR arrays (e.g. iterstat can be run for single parameters only; irshift includes an imsection parameter to avoid displaying every image; & minv is faster). NOTE that several perl scripts (included with the package) are used for image coaddition if the CTIO package is unavailable. Several awk scripts are also used for photometric scaling tasks. Entire package available as a compressed tarfile from "http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~hall/phiirs211.1.tar.gz". To install, enter the proper pathname in "phiirs.cl", load the IRAF softools package, and type "mkhelpdb root.hd helpdb.mip", deleting the old "helpdb.mip" if necessary. See "sample.loginuser.cl" for how to include the package in your default IRAF startup.