A Unified Release of the FTOOLS and XANADU Software Packages. XANADU: High-level, multi-mission tasks for X-ray astronomical spectral, timing, and imaging data analysis. FTOOLS: General and mission-specific tools to manipulate FITS files. FITSIO: Core library responsible for reading and writing FITS files. fv: General FITS file browser/editor/plotter with a graphical user interface. XSTAR: Tool for calculating the physical conditions and emission spectra of photoionized gases
Availability and Restrictions
Versions
The following versions of HEASoft are available on OSC systems:
| Version | Cardinal |
|---|---|
| 6.36 | X |
You can use module spider heasoft to view available modules for a given machine. Feel free to contact OSC Help if you need other versions for your work.
Access
HEASoft is available to all OSC users. If you have any questions, please contact OSC Help.
Publisher/Vendor/Repository and License Type
HEASARC, HEASoft is a collection of tools, more information about the specific included tools can be found at https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/lheasoft/
Usage
Set-up for HEASoft 6.36
module load heasoft/6.36
Using HEASoft 6.36
HEASoft is a containerized application at OSC and is run through apptainer. A helper script heasoft is included in the $PATH when loading the heasoft/6.36 module, and can be used as follows from the command line:
heasoft xrismversion heasoft xatime infile=xgen_a0.hk1 outfile=xgen_out.hk timfile=x.tim lookupfile=NONE
The .sif can be found at $HEASOFT_IMG and a shell into the container can be opened and used like the following
apptainer shell $HEASOFT_IMG > xrismversion > xatime infile=xgen_a0.hk1 outfile=xgen_out.hk timfile=x.tim lookupfile=NONE
