DPUSER - The Next Generation

Introduction

DPUSER - The Next Generation

DPUSER is an interactive language that is capable of handling numbers (both real and complex), strings, and matrices. Its main aim is to do astronomical image analysis, for which it provides a comprehensive set of functions, but it can also be used for many other applications.

NEW (June 2008)

A new version (2.0) is released.

Documentation

For DPUSER, extensive documentation is available, see link below. DPUSER is also part of a graphical front-end (-> QFitsView).

Download

For Microsoft Windows, you need this binary (6 MB).

For Linux, you need this binary (3.5 MB). Don't forget to make this executable (chmod a+x dpuser_2.0.linux)!

For Mac OSX, copy this disk image and copy the Application to your favorite location (3.1 MB). This is a universial binary.

To use the plotting capabilities of DPUSER, copy grfont.dat and rgb.txt to some directory and create an environment variable named PGPLOT_DIR that points to that directory.

DPUSER provides an interface to ds9 allowing to display images or overlay graphics. In order to use this functionality, the following software has to be downloaded from hea-www.harvard.edu:

The xpans program has to be in your PATH so it can be found automatically when ds9 is started.

You can also download the documentation in gzipped tar format and extract to your local disk.

If you want to compile DPUSER yourself, download the source code (31 MB) and follow the instructions in the README file.







Last edited by Thomas Ott: 11 Jun 2008 - These pages are subject to the standard MPE disclaimer