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Making the Figaro Data Reduction System Portable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

K. Shortridge ,
S. J. Meatheringham ,
B. D. Carter  and
M. C. B. Ashley
K. Shortridge
Affiliation:
Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia. ks@aaoepp.aao.gov.au
S. J. Meatheringham
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Australian National University, Private Bag, Weston PO, ACT 2611, Australia
B. D. Carter
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
M. C. B. Ashley
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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Abstract

The Figaro data reduction system was originally written for DEC VAXes running VMS, and little attention was paid to making it portable. Recently, however, a cooperative effort between the AAO, MSSSO, UNSW, the UK Starlink network and Caltech has resulted in a version for UNIX. This new version has been run under VMS and three different versions of UNIX. The files produced by any version may be read directly by any other version, although Figaro has a particularly complex file format which contains an extensible, self-defining, hierarchical structure of data items. This complexity has allowed the addition of error and quality data, as well as specific structures used, for example, for echelle data. Figaro is written mainly in Fortran (with numerous DEC extensions) but there is also a significant use of C. While C and Fortran are reasonably portable, the way one is called from the other is less portable and needs careful handling. Ports to other systems are possible, with effort; a Macintosh version is being considered.

Keywords

data processing
Type
Instruments, Techniques and Basic Measurements
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , August 1995 , pp. 244 - 247
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1995

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References

Shortridge, K. 1993, in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems II, ed. Hanisch, R. J., Brissenden, R. J. V. & Barnes, J., ASP Conf. Ser., 52, 219 Google Scholar