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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR IRAF NEWSLETTERS
IRAF Newsletter Number 1, June 1986
INTRODUCTION................................................................1
IRAF PROJECT STATUS AND ACTIVITIES FOR 1986.................................2
HOW TO GET THE NEW RELEASE..................................................5
IRAF PERFORMANCE EVALUATION REPORTS.........................................5
NOTES FROM THE VMS SYSTEM MANAGER'S PORTFOLIO...............................6
NOTES AND EXPERIENCES INSTALLING IRAF V2.2..................................7
SUMMARY OF REVISIONS IN IRAF VERSION 2.3....................................11
IRAF Newsletter Number 2, September 1987
IRAF STATUS AND PLANS - FALL 1987...........................................1
NEW NEWSLETTER POLICY.......................................................5
PUBLIC RELEASE OF IRAF VERSION 2.5..........................................5
SUMMARY OF REVISIONS IN IRAF VERSION 2.5....................................6
SITE SUPPORT AND THE IRAF HOTLINE...........................................8
DENSITY TO INTENSITY CALIBRATION PACKAGE....................................8
THE PHASE DISPERSION MINIMIZATION PROGRAM...................................9
UPDATE ON NEW IRAF PACKAGES - CCDRED AND APPHOT.............................10
FITS UPDATE.................................................................10
SIMPLE CL SCRIPTS...........................................................11
IRAF MAGNETIC TAPE I/O NEWS.................................................11
MODIFICATIONS TO ONEDSPEC CALIBRATION FILES.................................12
CUSTOMIZING HOST-SYSTEM AND IRAF LOGIN FILES................................14
KEYWORD CHANGES TO NOAO FITS TAPES..........................................16
NOTES ON GRAPHICS DEVICES...................................................17
NOTE ABOUT VMS SHARED LIBRARIES.............................................19
IRAF NETWORKING WITH DECNET.................................................20
IRAF BENCHMARKS.............................................................20
NEW IRAF LOGO...............................................................20
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION WITH THE IRAF PROJECT..............................21
IRAF Newsletter Number 3, February 1988
SYSTEM NEWS.................................................................1
UPDATE ON THE APPHOT PACKAGE................................................2
UPDATE ON THE CCDRED PACKAGE................................................3
A USER'S GUIDE TO SCRIPT WRITING NOW AVAILABLE..............................3
UNDERSTANDING THE NULL STRING...............................................3
NEW TASK IMCOMBINE ADDED TO IMAGES PACKAGE..................................4
PROTOTYPE CODE FOR IR IMAGES................................................4
MODIFICATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO THE ASTUTIL PACKAGE..........................5
SHIFTING OF DISPERSION SOLUTIONS NOW AVAILABLE..............................6
MODIFICATIONS TO THE APEXTRACT PACKAGE......................................7
NEW ECHELLE PACKAGE (IN PROGRESS)...........................................8
CURRENT PLOTTER DEVICES SUPPORTED BY IRAF...................................9
OVERSEAS IRAF SHIPMENTS.....................................................10
A REQUEST TO SITE MANAGERS..................................................10
INVITATION TO WORK WITH THE IRAF PROGRAMMING GROUP..........................10
IRAF Newsletter Number 4, June 1988
SYSTEM NEWS.................................................................1
SUMMARY OF APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS...............................3
IRAF AWARDED FUNDS BY NASA HEADQUARTERS.....................................4
IRAF AT THE STEWARD MIRROR LAB..............................................4
COMINGS AND GOINGS WITHIN THE IRAF GROUP....................................5
INVITATION TO WORK WITH THE IRAF PROGRAMMING GROUP..........................5
TWO NEW IMAGE DISPLAY UTILITIES FOR IRAF....................................6
IMPROVED APERTURE SUMMING AND BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION IN APEXTRACT...........6
SUN3/IRAF [FLOATING DIVIDE BY ZERO] ERROR...................................7
IMPROVED DEBLENDING WITH SPLOT..............................................8
DENSITY TO INTENSITY (DTOI) PACKAGE MODIFICATIONS...........................8
MODIFICATIONS TO VTEL.......................................................9
DECOMP IN IRAF..............................................................9
LINEAR COORDINATES IN SPLOT AND IDENTIFY....................................10
IMAGE INTERPOLATION IN IRAF.................................................11
SKY SUBTRACTION IN LOW-DISPERSION LONG-SLIT SPECTRA.........................11
CURRENT IRAF E-MAIL ADDRESSES...............................................12
IRAF Newsletter Number 5, October 1988
SYSTEM NEWS.................................................................1
INVITATION TO WORK WITH THE IRAF PROGRAMMING GROUP..........................2
NOTE TO POTENTIAL SUN386i/IRAF USERS........................................2
AN INTEGRATED DATA ACQUISITION/REDUCTION ENVIRONMENT FOR CFHT...............3
IRAF IMAGE DISPLAY ON THE VMS VAXSTATION....................................5
APPHOT NEWS.................................................................6
NEW IMAGE REGISTRATION AND MOSAIC PACKAGE...................................7
IMAGE MATCHING IN IRAF......................................................8
VOLUME VISUALIZATION IN IRAF................................................9
ANNOUNCING A NEW VERSION OF FOCAS...........................................10
SUMMARY OF IRAF USER QUESTIONNAIRE #1.......................................12
INTERESTING IRAF STATISTICS.................................................17
IRAF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.........................................................18
CURRENT IRAF E-MAIL ADDRESSES...............................................19
IRAF Newsletter Number 6, February 1989
System News.................................................................1
IRAF at the USC Psychology Department.......................................2
Unix/IRAF Image File Protection (the `..' File).............................4
Calling IMFORT Procedures from C Programs...................................5
HEDIT Operations............................................................6
APSCATTER: A New Task for Subtracting Scattered Light.......................7
Support for MULTISPEC Format................................................8
Radial Velocity Analysis Package Under Development..........................9
New Spectrum Plotting Task..................................................10
Volume Rendering Update, Video Recording....................................10
FITS Standards Efforts and IRAF.............................................11
First FOCAS Users Meeting...................................................11
IRAF Copyright and Licensing Agreement......................................12
IRAF Version 2.8 in Preparation for Release.................................12
Current IRAF E-mail Addresses...............................................13
IRAF Newsletter Number 7, June 1989
System News.................................................................1
Things to Watch Out For with IRAF V2.8......................................1
Job Announcement............................................................3
Beta Release of Convex/IRAF V2.8 Now Available..............................3
IRAF Ported to the DECstation 3100..........................................4
Status Report on the Apollo/IRAF Port.......................................4
IRAF on the SPARCstation....................................................5
IRAF Version 2.8 Distribution in Progress...................................5
IRAF Supported SGI Graphics Devices.........................................5
Capital Letters in VMS/IRAF V2.8............................................6
A New Task Called TVMARK....................................................7
IMEXAMINE - A New Task for Examining Images.................................7
IMEDIT: New Image Examination and Pixel Editing Task........................8
Specifying Pixel Directories with IMFORT....................................9
APPHOT Update...............................................................10
RV Package Available for Testing............................................10
The IRAF DAOPHOT Package....................................................11
IUE Spectra in IRAF.........................................................11
Image Display on VMS Workstations...........................................12
How to Make Portrait Plots..................................................14
Using and Customizing the EPARAM and EHISTORY Editors.......................15
Password Prompts and IRAF Networking........................................16
The Process Cache...........................................................17
Don't Load Packages in Scripts!.............................................17
FOCAS News..................................................................18
Add-on Software Available for IRAF Version 2.8..............................20
Erratum.....................................................................20
IRAF Version 2.8 Revisions Summary..........................................21
IRAF Newsletter Number 8, October 1989
System News.................................................................1
Things to Watch Out For with IRAF V2.8......................................2
IRAF Version 2.9 in Preparation.............................................3
New IRAF Distribution Policy................................................3
IRAF Users' Committee Report - 1989.........................................3
Beta Release of SAOimage Now Available......................................5
Steward Observatory Announces Local Tape Readers............................5
Beta Release of DAOPHOT/IRAF Announced......................................5
New Developments in the IRAF Reduction of Multiple Object Spectroscopy......6
RV Package Available for Testing............................................6
IRAF Demos Available for Distribution.......................................7
APPHOT Update...............................................................7
First Version of ARTDATA in Progress........................................8
Using the Image Section Notation............................................8
FOCAS News..................................................................9
Add-on Software Available for IRAF Version 2.8..............................10
IRAF Newsletter Number 9, February/June 1990
System News.................................................................1
IRAF Version 2.9 Now Available..............................................2
Plans for an IRAF Conference in 1991........................................3
The New World Coordinate System (MWCS) Interface............................3
Support for IEEE Floating Point Added to FITS...............................4
The IRAF Artificial Data Package, ARTDATA...................................4
APPHOT Update...............................................................6
IRRED Package Notes.........................................................6
New Calibration Data Files..................................................7
Equivalent Widths in IRAF SPLOT.............................................7
Status of the NEWIMRED Packages.............................................8
Escaping to the OS and More.................................................9
News from Steward Observatory...............................................10
IRAF on the Solbourne.......................................................10
FOCAS Update................................................................11
Summary of New Documentation Available......................................13
Add-on Software Available for IRAF Versions 2.8/2.9.........................14
IRAF Version 2.9 Revisions Summary..........................................16
IRAF Newsletter Number 10, October 1990
System News.................................................................1
Release of IRAF Version 2.9.1...............................................3
Changes to the ARTDATA Package: Version 1.1.................................4
CCDRED News.................................................................5
IMRED Package Revisions Summary: IRAF Version 2.10..........................5
ONEDSPEC Package Revisions Summary: IRAF Version 2.10.......................6
APEXTRACT Package Revisions Summary: IRAF Version 2.10......................7
Radial Velocity Analysis Package Being Revised..............................8
Photometry Package, BASPHOTC, Available from Hawaii.........................9
Problems with Long Image Headers............................................10
Getting Help in IRAF........................................................11
Parameter Sets or Psets.....................................................11
Saving IRAF Plots in PostScript Files.......................................13
Using PostScript Fonts with IRAF Plots......................................14
FOCAS News #4...............................................................16
Astronomical Calculator and Calendar Programs...............................17
IRAF Documentation..........................................................17
Add-on Software Available for IRAF Versions 2.8/2.9/2.9.1...................18
IRAF Newsletter Number 11, April 1991
System News.................................................................1
Update on Software Conference...............................................2
Missing This Issue of the IRAF Newsletter?..................................2
IRAF Acknowledgment.........................................................2
Modifying the Pixel Pathname................................................3
Setting Up Multiple Fifo Pipes for SAOimage.................................3
New Radial Velocity Package Availability....................................5
New ASTUTIL Task for Computing Grating Parameters...........................5
New Echelle Software........................................................6
FOCAS News #5...............................................................6
Add-on Software Available for IRAF Versions 2.8/2.9/2.9.1...................7
IRAF Newsletter Number 12, July 1992
System News.................................................................1
Retiring IRAF Support for Certain Platforms.................................2
1992 Software Conference Update.............................................2
Multiobject SPP.............................................................3
World Coordinate System Support in IRAF V2.10...............................5
Improved CL Scanning and Printing Facilities................................7
EPS Output Files in IRAF Version 2.10.......................................8
Major Changes to WFITS in IRAF V2.10........................................8
A New Version of IMCOMBINE..................................................9
Coordinate Overlay Task WCSLAB Installed in TV Package......................11
New Task HFIX Announced.....................................................12
Changes to the ICFIT Routine................................................12
New DIGIPHOT Packages in IRAF V2.10.........................................13
APPHOT Package Update.......................................................13
DAOPHOT Package Update......................................................14
PHOTCAL Package Added to DIGIPHOT...........................................15
New OBSERVATORY Database....................................................16
CCDRED in V2.10.............................................................16
Radial Velocity Package Update..............................................17
The Version 2.10 NOAO Spectroscopy Packages.................................17
What's New in SPLOT.........................................................19
Changes to the ONEDSTDS Directory in IRAF Version 2.10......................21
Interfacing an HP LaserJet Printer to IRAF..................................21
New MEM0 Add-on Package.....................................................23
IRAF Tools for Accessing the ADC CDROM......................................24
IRAF Documentation..........................................................26
Add-on Software Available for IRAF Versions 2.8/2.9/2.10....................27
Erratum.....................................................................28
IRAF Version 2.10 Revisions Summary (not included in electronic copy)
IRAF Newsletter Number 13, December 1994
System Update...............................................................1
IRAF Version 2.10.3BETA Release.............................................2
ADASS Conference Update.....................................................3
IRAF in Japan...............................................................4
New Network Device Driver...................................................5
X11 Support Package X11IRAF.................................................6
Hints for Setting Up and Using XGTERM and XIMTOOL...........................7
IRAF Network Information Services...........................................11
Frequently Asked Questions List Available...................................13
Reorganization of the Network Archive.......................................14
Tips and Tools for Learning IRAF............................................15
The IRAF External Package GRASP.............................................15
A New Package for Nebular Analysis..........................................17
FORTRAN Program and IRAF Script Produce Fast Scientific Output..............19
Using EVVEXPR to Process Vector Expressions.................................20
New Image Expression Evaluation Task........................................21
New Image Registration Task.................................................22
Fitting a Surface with SURFIT...............................................23
Editing and Modifying Headers with ASTHEDIT.................................23
Revisions to IMCOMBINE for V2.10.2..........................................25
An Enhancement to COSMICRAYS................................................26
CCDTIME---Predicting Exposure Times.........................................26
New Radial Velocity Tasks, RVIDLINES and RVREIDLINES........................27
New Conversion Tools for 1D Image Spectra...................................27
SFLIP---Flip Data or Dispersion Coordinates in Spectra......................28
APPHOT Package Update.......................................................28
New Version of the DAOPHOT Crowded-Field Photometry Package Released........30
PHOTCAL Package Update......................................................33
PTOOLS Package Update.......................................................34
Aperture Correction Tasks Installed in the PHOTCAL Package..................34
Measuring Stellar Image Widths for Seeing and Focus Characterization........35
Image Conversions Using IMPORT/EXPORT.......................................36
IRAF Documentation..........................................................37
Layered Software Available for IRAF Versions 2.8/2.9/2.10...................38
Brief Summary of Application Software Modifications in IRAF V2.10.3BETA.....40
IRAF Newsletter Number 14, April 1998
IRAF Update..................................................................1
IRAF Project Awarded NASA Grants.............................................2
The Online IRAF News.........................................................3
IRAF Archive Mirror Sites....................................................4
IRAF V2.11 Supported Platforms...............................................5
PC-IRAF Project Status.......................................................5
Combined Distributions for Sun/IRAF and for PC-IRAF..........................6
STIS and NICMOS Calibration Pipelines........................................7
PROS Report.................................................................10
The NOAO Mosaic Data Handling System........................................10
The SAO R&D Software Suite..................................................12
X11IRAF Project Developments................................................13
Client Display Library--CDL.................................................14
IRAF FITS Image Kernel......................................................15
New IRAF Image Format.......................................................16
IMFORT Changes in V2.11.....................................................17
The IMEXTN and IMTYPE Environment Variables.................................17
New Fonts for Hardcopy Graphics.............................................19
IMAGES Package Reorganized..................................................20
New Image Astrometry Tasks..................................................21
New Coordinate Transformation Tasks.........................................22
New Image Registration Tasks................................................24
Pixel Masks in DISPLAY, FIXPIX, and CCDPROC.................................24
Changes to the RFITS and WFITS Tasks........................................25
Converting IRAF images with IMPORT/EXPORT...................................27
DIGIPHOT Package Update.....................................................27
Update on the NOAO Spectroscopy Packages....................................28
Iterative Correction of Spectra: TELLURIC and SKYTWEAK......................29
IMTYPE and the IMRED Spectral Reductions Tasks..............................30
Hints on Reading and Writing FITS Files.....................................31
The TAPECAP File Explained..................................................32
Measuring Coordinates with the FINDER Package...............................36
The Mosaic Data Reduction Package--MSCRED...................................37
Archiving Data with "Save The Bits".........................................38
Layered Software Available for IRAF Versions 2.10 and 2.11..................40