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WINGSPAN: A WINdows Gamma-ray SPectral Analysis program
Robert D. Preece,
Michael S. Briggs,
Robert S. Mallozzi
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Martin N. Brock
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Abstract:
WINGSPAN is a program written to analyze spectral data from the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory.
Data files in the FITS (BFITS) format are suitable for input into the program. WINGSPAN can be used to view and manipulate event time histories or count spectra, and also has the capability to perform spectral deconvolution via a standard forward folding model fitting technique (Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm). Although WINGSPAN provides many functions for data manipulation, the program was designed to allow users to easily plug in their own external IDL routines. These external routines have access to all data read from the FITS files, as well as selection intervals created in the main part of WINGSPAN (background intervals and model, etc).
Subject headings: gamma-rays: bursts -- gamma-rays: observations --instrumentation: detectors -- line: identification -- methods: data analysis -- plasmas -- radiation mechanisms: non-thermal - radiation mechanisms: thermal ---- Sun: gamma-rays -- techniques: spectroscopic
Latest Version: 4.41 (1997 October 30)
Archived: 1999 October 13
Papers: multiple, representative:
Preece, R. D., Pendleton, G. N., Briggs, M. S., Mallozzi, R. S., Paciesas, W. S., Band, D. L., Matteson, J. L., & Meegan, C. A. 1998ApJ...496..849P
Languages: Fortran 77,
IDL
External Explanatory Pages:
http://gammaray.msfc.nasa.gov/tools/wingspan/
Source Code:
wgsp441.tar.gz