PINGSoft
NEW: PINGSoft version 2 is now available in BETA version!
The PINGS software, or PINGSoft, is a
set of IDL routines designed to visualize and manipulate,
in an interactive and friendly way, Integral Field
Spectroscopic (IFS) data based on either 3D cubes or Raw
Stacked Spectra (RSS) format. Any IFS data can be adapted
to work with PINGSoft, regardless of the original
data format and the size/shape of the spaxel.
PINGSoft includes basic tools to visualize
spatially and spectrally the IFS data, to extract regions
of interest by hand or within a given geometric aperture,
to integrate the spectra within a given region, to read,
edit and write RSS FITS files, and to perform simple
analyses to the IFS data. Additionally, some
miscellaneous codes useful for generic tasks performed in
astronomy and spectroscopy are also included.
Given that these routines were developed for the PPAK
instrument, they are perfectly suited for they immediate
implementation to the CALIFA data.
Downloads
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PINGSoft version 2 BETA, no documentation available yet, see the release notes (last version: 5-Apr-12)
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PINGSoft example files, example FITS to run the routines as described in the README.pro file (~30Mb).
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PINGSoft Users' Guide (v1), including installation instructions, routines descriptions and working examples.
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PINGSoft version 1, stable, including all the routines, documentation and example files
Updates
If you want to keep updated when new libraries are added or when new versions of the software are available, please send an email to frosales_at_cantab.net with the subject "PINGSoft user", so that you can be added to the PINGSoft users' list.
News
- 2010, February: First public version of PINGSoft launched.
- 2011, April: NewAstronomy paper on PINGSoft published.
- 2011, August: PINGSoft version 2 is launched in BETA version, see the release notes.
PINGSoft is licensed under GPLv3.