FTOOLS: The CGRO Sub-package
The CGRO sub-package of FTOOLS contains mission-specific tasks for the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory mission.
The following CGRO tasks were released in the latest distribution of the HEASARC's FTOOLS package. Each task is hyperlinked to the help file distributed with the task. The same information can be obtained while running FTOOLS by typing the command fhelp {taskname}.
If you require further, or more detailed information on the GRO sub-package of FTOOLS, contact
ftoolshelp@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov
CGRO Tasks
- bcmppha
- Converts BATSE PHA files to a format readable by XSPEC
- bod2pha
- Makes XSPEC PHA file from BATSE occultation data
- bod2rmf
- Makes XSPEC RMF file for BATSE occultation data
- bodgetvp
- Gets viewing period info from BATSE occultation data
- eaddmap
- Add or subtract two EGRET maps
- econvpha
- Converts EGRET .spec files to XSPEC .pha files
- econvrmf
- Converts EGRET .resp files to XSPEC .rmf files
- emapgen
- Converts a photon list (qvp file) to a counts map
- fbbft2pha
- Converts BATSE BFITS file to spectral PHA file
- fbdrm2rmf
- Converts BATSE DRM file to RMF format
- fesdb2rdf
- Reads i/p QVP and EXP (optional) data files and writes an o/p FITS data file in OGIP standard format
- fevpbtoa
- Converts Fits formatted Comptel EVP data to an ASCII file
FTOOLS HELP DESK
If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this website (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/) and the following:
Blackburn, J. K. 1995, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 77, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes (San Francisco: ASP), 367.
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