UltarSTAR data reduction package

UltraSTAR is a software package for astronomical data reduction. STAR is the abribiation of "Streaming process orianted Tools for Astronomical data Reduction". Ultra is the abribiation of "Unix and Linux based Tools for Radio Astrnomy data reduction". The latest version is released at 2004 December. in Japanese
  1. general
    1. structure of description
    2. option keyword
    3. paramter file
    4. standard angle expression
  2. files
    1. scn file(line profile scan)
    2. sdb file(scan database)
    3. prm file(paramter)
    4. cub file(cube)
    5. cdb file(cube database)
  3. profile processing
    1. load load scn
    2. save save scn
    3. baseline baseline for profile
    4. spurious flag spurious pixel
    5. smooth smooth and resample along velocity
    6. virspec smooth and resample along velocity
    7. headcorr header correction
    8. posalias change 360deg aliasing for position
    9. posgrid adjust on position on the regular grid
    10. freqshift change the rest frequency
    11. scnflag put a bad flag for scn
    12. autoname give a proper name
    13. integ integrate several scans
    14. fswdem demodulate a frequency switched scan
    15. scn2sdb convert scn flow to sdb
    16. sdb2scn convert sdb to scn flow
    17. pipewait wait process at the step
  4. profile presentation
    1. display display scn flow
    2. mdisplay display scn flow on a page
    3. headlist list the header
    4. pipewait wait process at the step
  5. profile import/export
    1. scn2fits make a FITS image file of a profile
    2. scn2txt print scn value in ASCII text
    3. txt2scn read value in ASCII text to scn
    4. lineint (no English manual)
    5. nsprf2scn convert a NRO newstar binary data to scn
    6. nsprfhead list header of a NRO newstar binary
    7. nsindex list names of NRO newstar binary
    8. nsfits2scn convert NRO newstar FITS to scn
  6. conversion between profile and three dimensional cube
    1. cub2scn convert cub to scn flow
  7. scan database
    1. ls2sdb make a sdb flow from ls output
    2. sdbload load sdb
    3. sdbsave save sdb
    4. sdbselect selection filter of sdb
    5. sdbflag put a bad flag for sdb
    6. sdblist list paramters on sdb
    7. sdbsort sort sdb entries by header values
    8. sdbseparate insert command between different groups in sdb entries
    9. sdbsh exec shell command for the sdb entry
    10. sdb2scn convert sdb to scn flow
    11. sdb2cub make a cub from sdb
    12. pipewait wait process at the step
  8. three dimensional cube processing
    1. sdb2cub make a cub from sdb
    2. cub2scn convert cub to scn
    3. cubload load cub
    4. cubsave save cub
    5. cubheadls header list of cub
    6. cubheadcorr header correction
    7. cubclip flag pixels by pixel value
    8. cubtrim trim or extend along axis
    9. cubsmooth smooth along axis
    10. fillblank fill blank pixels by interpolation
    11. rotaxis exchange axes
    12. flipaxis flip pixel ordering along an axis
    13. shiftaxis change the axis orgin position with pixel position consistency
    14. cubstat revise statistical values on pixel in the header
    15. cubTa2Tmb convert data between Ta* and Tmb
    16. bicubprocess/cubratio calcuration between 2 cubes
    17. cubcat concatinate 2 cubes
    18. cub2map process a cub along velocity-axis to make a cub but actually 2-D extension map
    19. cub2dto3d concatinate effectivly 2 dimensional maps into a 3 dimensional cub data.
    20. pipewait wait process at the step
  9. three dimensional data cube presentation
    1. graymap display cub in 2D grayscale map
    2. contourmap display cub in 2D contour map
  10. three dimensional cube import/export
    1. cub2fits convert cub to FITS
    2. fits2cub convert FITS to cub
    3. ttplot make an ASCII table for the T-T plot of 2 cubes
    4. cub2txt make an ASCII table of a cube
  11. other commands
    1. updatereapsec update the reap_second database
    2. showstarversion show the version of your UltraSTAR