blackbody fitting

nwright wrote on May 02, 2007

what is the simplest way to get IRAF to fit a blackbody spectrum and give me the temperature of my data in a similar way to how CONTINUUM fits a continuum to my data?

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on May 02, 2007

See the NFIT1D task in the STSDAS.ANALYSIS.FITTING package. It is the only thing I'm aware of that will fit a blackbody but I don't think it'll report a temperature directly. STSDAS is an external package you'll need to install separate from the core system and also requires the TABLES package.

Cheers,
-Mike

P.S. The help page link appears broken if you try to read it from this site, but see http://stsdas.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/gethelp.cgi?nfit1d

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