Ciao
- http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/download/
From here download ciao-install script. Create a different folder for everything of your data analysis namely, chandra. Copy this script file to that folder. enter into that folder and run the script. It’s better to install ciao also in this directory. Better not to install as root, I don’t know why.
For running the script, open terminal and go to that folder. Than type “bash ciao-install”, without the inverted commas of course. After than everything will be normal if the script works. Terminal will ask for Ciao installation directory, give the directory, chandra.
After installation go to the directory where ciao is installed. Go to the bin directory and run this code to see complete ciao configuration.
. ciao.bash
Then you have to edit the .bashrc file in your home to make an alias for ciao with which you will open ciao every time. The file is hidden so u have to use ls -a to see it. Than to edit write this,
sudo gedit .bashrc
Heasoft with Xspec
- http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/download.html
In this page first select what kind of package you want to download. I downloaded source codes instead of binary files. Because after downloading source code I can configure it according to my OS. But binary is already configured and maybe not properly for my OS.
After selecting “Source code distribution” selct operating system and select the tools that you need. I selected all “General-Use FTOOLS” and “XANADU”. Clisk on Submit and download the file. It will take time. More than 300 MB.
After downloading move the tar file to chandra directory and untar it. Go to the untarred directory and than to the BUILD_DIR directory. Configure file is situated here. So run the “./configure” command on terminal.
This configuration will not be easy. It will give errors if it does not find some package file that it needs. Than it will stop. We have to install that package file and then again give the configure command. Dunno how many times it will give errors, depend on your software resources. I had to install the following packages while configuring Heasoft: (using sudo apt-get install or Synaptic package manager)
# gfortran
# libncurses-dev
# X11 development packages (libxkbfile-dev, x11proto-core-dev, libxdmcp-dev, libxau-dev)
After configuration makefile was created. So run the “make” command. It gave me an error at first. Could not find X11-intrinsic.h. So went to synaptic and searched for this. Installed the following packages and it worked:
# libxt-dev, libxt6-dbg, libxbfile1-dbg
Funtools
- https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~john/funtools/
Download this tar file and copy to your chandra folder. Than extract at the same place. Go inside the folder and run the ./configure command. It will configure the program. Step by step commands will be:
./configure
make
make install
Finished. Funtools is installed. Now we need to integrate this with ds9. In the terminal open ciao. Than open ds9. Go to
Edit –> Preferences –> Analysis –> Preload analysis file –> Browse
Go to your funtools folder and show the funtools.ds9 file. That’s all.
