ssclib

Abstract:

• Description
  • Introduction
  • Angle conventions
  • Dependency relations:
  • Module index
  
  
• General-purpose array-processing utilities
  • Array or vector scalar integers
    • Return largest true index of a logical vector
    • Return smallest true index of a logical vector
    • Rectangular bounds of the true area of a logical array
    • Allocate real to a bin
    • Simpler maxloc
    • Simpler minloc
  • Array or vector scalar reals
    • 1-D interpolation
    • Trapezoid-rule, 1-D, numerical integral
    • Median
    • Value at histogram fraction
  • Array or vector array or vector
    • vectorCross
    • normalizeVector
    • findEdges
  
  
• Subroutine shortcuts for manipulating information used for setting the CAL state
  • Extract information about the instrument, exposure start time and spacecraft and instrument attitude from a dataset header.
  • Spacecraft instrument attitude
  • Instrument spacecraft attitude
  
  
• Routines to calculate source confusion
• A module which contains various mathematical and physical constants
  • Constants
    • Pi-related constants
    • Angle conversion factors
    • Solid angle conversion factors
    • Square roots
    • Natural log-related
    • Fundamental physical constants
    • Energy conversion factors
    • Solar system constants
  • Unit conversion routines
  • Black Body routines
    • Per unit frequency
    • Per unit wavelength
  
  
• Routines for performing coordinate transforms
  • getPsfImagePixelCorners
  • raDecToInst
  • instToRaDec
  • raDecToTan
  • tanToRaDec
  • polarsToRaDec
  • instToTan
  • tanToInst
  • instToRaw
  • rawToInst
  • getThetaPhiMaps
  • skyToCartesian
  • cartesianToSky
  • telCoordToDetXY
  • detXYToTelCoord
  • detXY unit definition
  
  
• An additional layer over the DAL which implements some short cuts
  • splitSetTabName
  • readArrayData
  • addOrOpenColumn
  • readColDataToFixed
  • readColDataToPtr
  • minNonNullValue
  • maxNonNullValue
  
  
• Poissonian statistics and source detectability in this regime
  • probability
  • Poisson probability
  • Integrated Poisson probability
  • Source detection limits
    • Single-band detection
    • Parallel detection over bands (with no assumptions made about source spectrum)
  • Integrated Gaussian probability
  • `Degrees of freedom' for a sum of likelihoods
  
  
• DSS utilities
  • Routines which involve the whole DSS
    • hasDss
    • dumpDss
  • Routines which return information about DSS components
    • getNum1stDssCompWithValue
    • numDssCompsOfAxis
    • numDssCompsWithValue
  • Routines which return information about the filters in a specific component
    • valueIsPassedByDssComp
    • anyFilterOfThisAxis
    • numFiltersOfAxis
    • get1stFilterThisAxis
    • allFiltersPassValue
    • valueIsPassedByFilter
  • Routines which act on DSS RangeT scalars
    • copyRange
    • checkRangeOverlap
    • andRangePair
    • orRangePair
    • valueIsWithinRange
  • Routines which act on DSS RangeT vectors
    • rangesAreWellFormed
    • copyRanges
    • readRanges
    • correctRanges
    • integrateRanges
    • andRangesPair
    • orRangesPair
    • dumpRanges
  • Routines which deal with DSS GTI filters
    • readGtis
    • getGtiFromFilter
    • andGtis
  • Routines which deal with DSS bitmask filters
    • getBitMasksFromFilter
    • allBitsEquiv
  
  
• Subroutines for dumping test output to file or STDOUT
  • String content
  • Dumping images to FITS array
  
  
• Routines which deal with the geometry of ellipses
  • `Rotated' and `phase' formats
  • Is a given point inside a given ellipse?
  • Generating a set of points along an ellipse locus
  • EllipseT structure definition
  
  
• A module containing routines to perform calculations relating to exposure issues
• Some utilities and definitions for applications which make use of the FFTW library
• A module containing some useful type definitions
• Routines for constructing histograms
• Routines to manipulate data of type IntervalT (see caltypes)
  • intervalsAreWellFormed
  • isWithinInterval
  • andIntervals
  • orIntervals
  
  
• Least-squares fitting routines
  • stdDev
  • fitLine
  • fitPolynomial
  • solveLinearTriDiag
  • solveLinearEquations
  • invertPosDefMatrix
  
  
• Miscellaneous mathematical utilities
• Function minimization routines
• List Parsing
• A tool to regrid data from one 2D pixel grid to another
• Contains an analytic approximation to the off-axis PSF, and routines to sample it.
• Routines to return random numbers in various distributions
• Array Reallocation
• Utilities to rebin 1D or 2D data between parallel pixel grids
• Short cuts to saving (or overwriting) output images
• Quick Sorting
• A routine which returns circles or ellipses to mark source locations
• 1D and 2D cubic-spline routines
• Miscellaneous utilities
  • Find a Free I/O Unit
  
  
• Routines to perform hyperbolic distortion of values in the interval [0:1]
• Utilities to assist in the reading and manipulation of WCS keywords
• Bibliography
• Index