Sparse collection of command line scripts to handle FITS files, in particular X-ray observation files.
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copy_spectra
: copy a XSpec-compatible spectrum from one directory to the current, together with response and background files. Let's assume that we have a file calledsource_sr.pha
, containing an X-ray spectrum, two directories above ours, together with its response and background files. The names of these files will be written in the RESPFILE, ANCRFILE and BACKFILE keywords in the header of spectrum file. This scripts reads these keywords and copies the relevant files in the current directory, with a common root name, and changes the relevant keywords in the spectrum file.$ ls -al drwxrwxr-x 2 pulsar pulsar 4096 Sep 29 12:55 . drwxrwxr-x 3 pulsar pulsar 4096 Sep 29 10:04 .. $ copy_spectra ../../source_sr.pha out $ ls -al drwxrwxr-x 2 pulsar pulsar 4096 Sep 29 12:55 . drwxrwxr-x 3 pulsar pulsar 4096 Sep 29 10:04 .. -rw-r--r-- 2 pulsar pulsar 63360 Jun 23 10:27 out.arf -rw-rw-r-- 1 pulsar pulsar 120960 Sep 29 11:23 out.pha -rw-r--r-- 2 pulsar pulsar 26775360 Jun 23 10:28 out.rmf -rw-r--r-- 2 pulsar pulsar 120960 Jun 23 10:27 out_back.pha