Installation and Download

aXe Distribution

aXe is distributed as the external PyRAF/IRAF package taxe20 (see below), and as a subpackage to STSDAS (under analysis.slitless.axe in STSDAS 3.11). The tasks in taxe20 have the same names as the aXe in STSDAS, but, depending on the versions, a potentially different implementation. To separate the aXe tasks in the STSDAS distribution from the tasks in the taxe20 package, all taxe20 tasks have the letter t as a prefix. For example, the taxe20 task taxecore corresponds to the STSDAS task axecore.

The current situation (as of November 19th, 2009) is that the latest STSDAS version 3.11 (released in November 2009) contains its predecessor aXe-2.0. The external package taxe20, which is offered on this page, can be run together with the older STSDAS 3.10.

Running aXe-2.0

The following is required to run aXe-2.0:

• STSDAS 3.10 or later
• PyRAF

Compiling aXe-2.0

aXe-2.0 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:

• GNU CC 2.95 or later compiler
• GNU Scientific Libraries (GSL) 1.x
• CFITSIO 3.x libraries
• WCStools 3.x libraries

Download aXe-2.0

The aXe-2.0 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:

• Download taxe20

Please follow the installation instructions in Chapter 2 of the manual.

Precompiled aXe-2.0 Binaries

Statically linked binaries for the aXe-2.0 C code are available for download for the following platforms:

• aXe-2.0 Redhat 9 and Fedora

To install the binaries in the aXe-2.0 package, please follow the instructions given in Chapter 2 of the manual.

Download aXe2web

The latest version of aXe2web can be downloaded here:

• aXe2html-1.1 source

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:

• aXe2web.par

Documentation

aXe

The 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:

• aXe User Manual (browsable)

• aXe User Manual (html download, 1.2Mb)
• aXe User Manual (pdf download, 10.0Mb)
• aXe User Manual (postscript download, 14Mb)

aXe2web

The documentation for aXe2web can be found here:

Documentation for aXe2web

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.

Maintained by Martin Kümmel <mkuemmel@eso.org>