The iraf data reduction and analysis system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 627, Issue , 1986, Pages 733-748

  Tody, Doug ^a  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY - IMAGING TECHNIQUES; DATA PROCESSING - DATA REDUCTION AND ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

COMMAND LANGUAGE (CL); IMAGE REDUCTION AND ANALYSIS FACILITY (IRAF); IRAF SYSTEM SOFTWARE; OPTICAL ASTRONOMY DATA; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE; VIRTUAL OPERATING SYSTEM (VOS);

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0022947839     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.968154     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. Shames, P.M.B, and Tody, D., A User’s Introduction to the IRAF Command Language Version 2.0, revised February 1986. The current user’s guide to the CL.
2. Tody, D., Detailed Specifications for the IRAF Command Language, January 1983. The original CL design paper. No longer accurate or comprehensive, but still contains useful information about the inner workings of the CL.
3. Tody, D., IRAF Standards and Conventions, August 1983. Coding standards, program design principles, portability considerations for programming in the SPP environment.
4. Tody, D., A Reference Manual for the IRAF Subset Preprocessor Language, January 1983. The most up to date documentation currently available for the SPP language proper.
5. Tody, D., The Role of the Preprocessor, December 1981. The original design document for the SPP language. Primarily of historical interest. Documents the reasoning which led to the decision to use a preprocessor language in IRAF.
6. Tody, D., Programmer’s Crib Sheet for the IRAF Program Interface, September 1983. Summarizes the contents of the various i/o subsystems comprising the VOS. Somewhat out of date, but still useful.
7. Tody, D., Graphics I/O Design, March 1985. Specifications for the graphics i/o subsystem. Reasonably up to date.
8. Tody, D., Design of the IRAF Database Subsystem, draft, October 1985. Presents the conceptual design of the planned database subsystem.
9. Tody, D., A Reference Manual for the IRAF System Interface, May 1984. An essential document describing the IRAF kernel, including the principles of operation and specifications for the kernel routines.
10. Tody, D., UNIX/IRAF Installation and Maintenance Guide, March 1986.
11. Tody, D., VMS/IRAF Installation and Maintenance Guide, March 1986.
12. Tody, D., A Set of Benchmarks for Measuring IRAF System Performance, March 1986. Contains comparative benchmarks for IRAF running on VAX/UNIX, VAX/VMS (750,780,8600), the SUN-3, and additional machines in the future.