Using IRAF at the Center for Astrophysics

This is how you set up your environment to run the various versions of IRAF supported by the Telescope Data Center.

This is how you can run the latest version of Pyraf with IRAF 2.16 on any CF-supported Linux machine.

Locally Developed IRAF Packages

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Telescope Data Center creates and maintains software to process and archive data from optical telescopes at the Whipple Observatory and MMT Observatory on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona. The software is freely distributed and documented online.

hectospec

A variety of tasks for reducing multifiber spectra from the Hectospec and Hectochelle spectrographs on the MMT.

rvsao

Tasks used to find radial velocities and manipulate spectra

saotdc

Various utilities for dealing with data

svdfit

Perform singular value decomposition on stacked spectra and remove the weighted eigenvectors which are found from other spectra.

Make a Postscript file from an IRAF graph


All Locally Supported IRAF Packages


Last updated 27 March 2018 by Jessica Mink