1.- Name convention

• The character % represents the system prompt in command lines and it has not to be typed when executing the installation.

This document describes the installation procedure for the FIASCO pipeline, which is delivered as a compressed-tar file of the kind: FIASCO-1_3.tar.gz

The FIASCO.-1_3.tar.gz contains not only pipeline and calibration procedures but also procedures written by the author which might also be interesting to the community (e.g. there is a procedure to generate blackbody curves). A complete description of these procedures can be found in another document called PROCEDURES.html.

In addition to the procedures, you can also download a file called FIASCO-DemoData.tar.gz containing some real spectral data from three stars in the constellation of Cygnus taken with FIASCO in the night 01/09/98. The file includes also the calibration data required for the pipeline.

3.- Contents

The FIASCO-1_3.tar.gz file contains:
 

	INSTALLATION.html	This file
	PROCEDURES.html	Describes MIDAS procedures
	CALIBRATION.html	Generation of calibration files
	PIPELINE.html	Running the pipeline
	*.prg	.MIDAS procedure files
	*.sh	Shell script files
	*.dat	Catalogs
	*.fmt	Table formats

The FIASCO-DemoData.tar.gz file contains:
 

	README.DemoData	Documentation
	master_*.fit	Master Calibration data in FITS format
	cyg*.fit	Raw frames with spectra of 3 stars in Cygnus
	vega.fit	Raw frame with the spectrophotometric star Vega (HR7001)
	neon01.fit	Raw frame with the spectrum of a neon calibration lamp
	hr7001.fit	A FITS table with the spectrum of Vega (HR7001)
	neon.fit	A FITS table with the wavelength of neon emission lines
	*.fmt	Table formats

 

4.- Installation

The installation starts with the downloading of the compressed-tar files to any directory of you own, however this section only describes the installation of the FIASCO-1_3.tar.gz

As FIASCO-1_3.tar.gz contains mainly MIDAS procedures (.prg files) which are executed with the MIDAS command @@, they should be located in a directory where MIDAS could found them. I personally use the $HOME/midwork directory as it is common to all MIDAS sessions independent of where I am.

The following is my preferable installation sequence:

1. Download the files FIASCO-1_3.tar.gz and the FIASCO-DemoData.tar.gz to your $HOME directory
2. Remove (or move away) the current $HOME/midwork if it exists (this way you will not mix the new FIASCO procedures with previous copies of the same files)

% rm -rf $HOME/midwork

3. Untar-uncompress the contents of FIASCO-1_3.tar.gz into the $HOME/midwork directory:

% cd $HOME/midwork

% zcat ../FIASCO-1_1.tar.gz | tar xvf -

4. Create a directory where to download the FIASCO-DemoData.tar.gz, e.g. $HOME/demo

% cd $HOME

% mkdir demo

% cd demo

% zcat ../FIASCO-DemoData.tar.gz | tar xvf -

5. Follow the instructions of the README.DemoData file to execute the pipeline on some spectral data.