IR Imaging & Miscellaneous Software Packages Available

Pat Hall wrote on May 20, 1999

Hi --

I use IRAF extensively for reducing IR and optical data, and I've 
made available two IRAF packages which others may find useful.
They can be found at the IRAF CONTRIB ftp site, or as follows:


PHIIRS -- Pat Hall's Infrared Imaging Reduction Software

http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~hall/astro.html#phiirs
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~hall/phiirs211.1.tar.gz


PHAT -- Pat Hall's Add-On Tasks

http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~hall/astro.html#phat
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~hall/phat211.1.tar.gz


A brief outline of the packages is appended.  I will update the 
above links with any bug notes or additional tasks as they show up.
Please feel free to contact me with bugs, comments, etc.  

Pat Hall
hall@astro.utoronto.ca



	PHIIRS -- Pat Hall's Infrared Imaging Reduction Software

v.2.11.1  990519  New V2.11 release including "dophiirs.cl" script task.
	  Tasks are available for complete reduction from raw data to images
	  suitable for input to FOCAS or other object detection software.  
        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.


	PHAT -- Pat Hall's Add-on Tasks

v 2.11.1  990519  IRAF V2.11 + FITS kernel release.  Default image extension is
	  now assumed to be "fits" instead of "imh".  
	This is my compilation of personal miscellaneous add-on IRAF tasks
	and their help files, including some tasks for defringing and coadding
	optical CCD data, and tasks specifically designed for data from the
	CTIO 4-meter using the Big Throughput Camera (BTC) of Bernstein et al. 
	This version is supplementary to PHIIRS, and in fact often requires it.
	Any task listed in the PHAT package menu which is not in this PHAT
	package can be found in the PHIIRS package.  PHIIRS should always
	be loaded before PHAT in IRAF.  The entire package available as a
	compressed tarfile from "www.astro.utoronto.ca/~hall/phat211.1.tar.gz".
	To install, enter the proper pathnames in "phat.cl" and "phat.hd", 
	load the softools IRAF package, and type "mkhelpdb root.hd helpdb.mip",
	deleting the old helpdb.mip if necessary.

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Last post on May 20, 1999