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Installation and DownloadaXe DistributionaXe is distributed as part of the STSDAS software package. In STSDAS aXe is located under the subpackage hst_calib.acs.axe. The current STSDAS version 3.7 has aXe-1.6 installed in it. As a young software package, aXe is still under rapid development. Our release dates can not always be coordinated with new STSDAS releases. As an alternative we always distribute the newest aXe version via the aXe webpages here. Every user has the possibility to download, install and work with the most recent version of aXe, independent from his local STSDAS installation and without the need to convince his system administrator to install new software. The aXe-1.6 distribution offered on the website here is loaded and used as the local PyRAF-package taxe16. The tasks in taxe16 have the same names as the aXe in STSDAS, but different implementation. To separate the aXe tasks in your STSDAS distribution from the tasks in the taxe16 package, all taxe16 tasks have the letter t as a prefix. For example, the taxe16 task tsex2gol corresponds to the STSDAS task sex2gol. The current situation (as of June 18th, 2007) is that aXe-1.6, the latest aXe version, was recently released as part of STSDAS 3.7, and the most convenient way to install aXe-1.6 is to upgrade to STSDAS 3.7. The taxe16 distributed on this webpage can be used if the upgrade to STSDAS 3.7 is not possible. aXe-1.6 was developed on the basis of STSDAS 3.6 and will works with this version without any restrictions. Even earlier versions of STSDAS (down to 3.4) should not give problems. Running aXe-1.6The following is required to run aXe: Compiling aXe-1.6aXe-1.6 consists of a part written in ANSI C and a part written in python. In case that we do not offer precompiled binaries for your computer architecture, you have to compile the C code by yourself. To do that you need:
Download aXe-1.6The aXe-1.6 sources are delivered with the usual configure scrips and a makefiles. Compilation and installation does not impose major problems. The following tarball contains both, python and C sources: Please follow the installation instructions in Chapter 2 of the manual.Precompiled aXe-1.6 BinariesStatically linked binaries for the aXe-1.6 C code are available for download for the following platforms: To install the binaries in the aXe-1.6 package, please follow the instructions given in Chapter 2 of the manual.Download aXe2webThe latest version of aXe2web can be downloaded here: The aXe2html-package and the task aXe2web therein is completely implemented in python. The installation uses the pyhton standard module disutil. Please have a careful look at the README (also distributed with the source) before installing aXe2html! An example of a parameter file used with aXe2web can be downloaded here: DocumentationaXeThe aXe User Manual gives a detailed insight into all aspects of aXe. It explains how aXe works and describes the various configuration and calibration files. The formats of the various aXe products are listed. Moreover it gives a detailed help on the aXe tasks. The aXe User Manual is available for browsing as well as for download in various formats:
aXe2webThe documentation for aXe2web can be found here: Those webpages are also part of the aXe2html-1.1 distribution. In case that you plan to install aXe2html-1.1 there is no need to save them separately from the above link.
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