Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik

Abteilung Astronomie

Sand 1, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

Contents of the IAAT, Astronomy, IDL Library

The aitlib is a set of IDL subroutines written by members of the Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Abt. Astronomie, of the University of Tübingen, Germany, with improvements from people from JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, MIT, Boston, and CASS, UCSD, San Diego.

Currently, subroutines from the following broad categories are available:

astro	General astronomy
cafe	Common Astronomical Fit Environment
fits	High-level FITS routines, e.g., reading of X-ray astronomical file formats
fitting	Chi^2 minimization and error determination
misc	Miscellaneous
rxte	Subroutines to analyze RXTE data
timing	Time series analysis
tripp	Aperture photometry
xmm	Some stuff for XMM
xspec	Routines to help with XSPEC output (X-ray spectral analysis)

Please feel free to use these routines in your IDL programs. We would appreciate hearing from outside users using the subroutines. We would greatly appreciate your sending of improvements on the subroutines as well as bug-reports. Please send your comments to Jörn Wilms or the person responsible for the individual subroutine as indicated in the program code.

Jörn Wilms | Impressum

Last modified 2002 Sep 10