bvitview

Name

bvitview – Inspect BVIT lightcurves generated using bvitphot.

Usage

bvitview datafiles (clobber) (logfile) (verbose) (debug)

Parameters

datafiles
String. List of bvitphot generated lightcurves. These may be plain ascii or fits tables.
clobber
Hidden Boolean. If clobber=y the tool is permitted to overwrite an existing file with name outfile.
logfile
String. Name of an ascii file for storing log and error messages from the tool. The file may be new, or messages can also be appended to a pre-existing file.
verbose
Boolean. If verbose=n, log messages will be suppressed.
debug
Boolean. If debug=y, will give more ellaborate debug information when an error occurs use this option to gather information when reporting a bug.

Description

This tool can be used to quickly inspect a lightcurve generated by bvitphot. There is an option to display any or all of the following data: normalized target, normalized target background, normalized comparison, normalized comparison background, and flux ratio

Examples

  1. To inspect a lightcurve stored as plain ASCII enter:

    --> bvitview datafiles="lightcurve.dat" clobber=y logfile=salt.log verbose=y debug=n
  2. To inspect a lightcurve stored as a binary FITS table enter:

    --> bvitview datafiles="lightcurve.fits" clobber=y logfile=salt.log verbose=y debug=n
  1. To inspect a series of lightcurves, stored in arbitrary format, listed in files.lst enter:

    --> bvitview datafiles="@files.lst" clobber=y logfile=salt.log verbose=y debug=n

Time and disk requirements

Should load in maximum of 5 seconds on any recent machine. Main time consumption is in loading the datafiles.

Bugs and limitations

Simple tool for quick and easy inspected. FFT mode not well tested yet, please help here.

Send feedback and bug reports to salthelp@saao.ac.za

See also

bvitphot

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