Contents

• OYSTER
  • General information
    • About OYSTER
    • About this guide
    • Fonts used in the guide
  • Installing OYSTER
    • Compiling OYSTER
    • Programmer's reference
    • Earth orientation updates
  • Using OYSTER
    • Starting up
    • What to do next?
    • Working with OYSTER
    • In case of trouble
    • Getting on-line help
    • Finishing up
    • Using OYSTER at NPOI
  • OYSTER support for other interferometers
    • Motivation
    • OIFITS reader
    • Programmer's reference
  • Plotting and editing
    • Interferometry
      • The plot selection widget
      • The data selection widget
      • Flagging data
      • Logical editing and flag tables
    • Astrometry
    • Spectroscopy
    • Photometry
  • Programmer's reference
    • Code
      • Script library files
      • C libraries
      • Mixed and FORTRAN libraries
  
  
• AMOEBA
  • Introduction
    • About AMOEBA
    • Data files
      • Interferometry
      • Astrometry
      • Spectroscopy
      • Photometry
    • The Hierarchical Stellar Systems Model Format
    • Stellar models
      • Uncorrelated flux component
      • Uniform disks
      • Limb-darkened disks
      • Miscellaneous stellar disks
      • Images
      • Rotating stars
      • Young stellar objects and disks
    • Fit scenarios
      • Single-lined spectroscopic binary
      • Double-lined spectroscopic binary
      • Single-lined spectroscopic binary with astrometric orbit
      • Triple with velocity curves of close pair
      • Triple with velocity curves for all components
    • Pass band integrations and field of view
  • Basic widget procedures
    • Load data
    • Manipulation of a model
    • Fit routines
      • ASTROMETRYFIT
      • INTERFEROMETRYFIT
      • CONTROL
  • Command line procedures
    • Interferometry data buffering
    • Model manipulation
    • Auxilliary data
  • Programmer's reference
    • Organization of data
  
  
• STARBASE
  • Introduction
    • About STARBASE
    • The format of STARTABLE
    • Available primary catalogs
    • File usage
  • How to work with STARBASE
    • Introduction
    • Managing a calibrator catalog
  • Command line procedures
    • Allocate/load STARTABLE
    • Read entire primary catalogs
    • Print/list information
    • Lists
    • Plot data from the WDS
    • Stellar parameters from calibrations of spectral types
      • Absolute visual magnitudes
      • Masses
      • Gravities
      • Effective temperatures
      • Diameters
    • Limb darkening
    • Derived parameters
      • Absolute magnitudes
      • Distances
      • Diameters
      • Orbital inclinations, semi-major axes, and secondary masses
    • Cross indices
  • Widget procedures
    • Spectrum plotter
    • Startable editor
  
  
• STARWHEEL
  • Introduction
    • Simulations
    • Observing list preparation
  
  
• CHAMELEON
  • Introduction
    • About CHAMELEON
    • Data and auxilliary files
    • Pipeline
      • Introduction and command syntax
      • Output files
      • Flag tables
      • Bias correction
      • Phase unwrapping
      • Logging and quality control
  • Quick Guide
    • Open the data file
    • Read configuration information, create tables, and load data
    • Print form sheets
    • Reduce the background data
    • Reduce point data
    • Average
    • Astrometry
    • Calibration of visibility amplitudes and closure phases
    • Write data
  • Basic widget procedures
    • Open a data file
    • Access a data file
      • Browse through an HDS file
      • Load configuration, tables, and logs
      • Load point data
      • Load scan data
      • Load metrology data
      • Write data
    • Reduce visibility data
    • Reduce delay data
    • Calibrate data
      • Scan data
      • Calibrating amplitude errors
      • Unwrapping triple phases
      • Astrometry
      • Stars
      • System
    • Utilities
      • Catalog access
  • Command line procedures
    • Accessing data files
      • Loading configuration and logs
      • Loading tables
      • Loading data
    • PointData manipulation
      • Astrometry
      • Other
    • Writing HDS objects
    • Analysis procedures
    • List procedures
    • Date conversion functions
    • Astrometry procedures
    • Data base routines
  • Discussion of reduction issues
    • Sub-arrays
    • Bias correction of visibilities
    • Photometry
    • Calibration of visibilities
    • Astrometry data reduction
      • Introduction
      • CONSTRICTOR parameters for astrometric reductions
      • Coherent integration
      • Dispersion correction
      • Metrology corrections
      • A standard recipe
    • Imaging simulations
  • HDS procedures
    • hds_
    • cmp_
    • dat_
  • Programmer's reference
    • Widget routines
      • FILE
      • ACCESSBROWSE
      • ACCESSINTERFEROMETRY
      • ACCESSPOINTDATA
      • ACCESSWRITE
      • REDUCE
      • REDUCEPOINTDATAPLOT
      • CALIBRATE
      • CATALOG
      • WAVE
    • Organization of data
    • Array configuration
      • Optical path lengths
      • Basic definitions and sign conventions
    • Command line procedures
    • Plotting
      • Adding plot variables
      • Adding plot classes
  
  
• CONSTRICTOR
  • Introduction
  • How to use CONSTRICTOR
    • NPOI raw data files
    • Preparation of parameter file
    • Parameters
    • System configuration
    • Running CONSTRICTOR
    • Programmer's reference
  
  
• INCHWORM
  • Introduction
  
  
• COBRA
  • Introduction
    • Reading raw HDS scan files
    • Frames
    • Visibilities
    • Fringe delays
    • Photon rates
    • NAT data
    • Compound plot procedures
  • NPOI raw packet data files
  
  
• VOLVOX
  • Introduction
    • About VOLVOX
  
  
• PEARL
  • Introduction
    • About PEARL
    • Getting started
    • Phase self-calibration
    • Programmer's reference
    • Beam procedures and functions
  
  
• Appendices
  • Plot variables and their indices
  • CONSTRICTOR output file structure
  • CHAMELEON file structure
  • COBRA file structure
  • INCHWORM file structure