NExScI KI-Related Software Information
The NExScI is an integral part of the KI development team, providing observation planning, data infrastructure, and data calibration applications. This page contains information on recent improvements made to software of relevance to KI operations, as well as information on planned upgrades to our software suite.
getCal
Current version: 2.9.2 (released 11/01/2006)
Latest code improvements:
Please see What is new in getCal?
- Full support of observation planning for KI Nulling mode.
- N-band photometry filtering on calibrator searches.
- Accurate Keck telescope pointing limits in timing plots.
- New option to process user-specified calibrators.
- Enhanced verbose option provides additional calibrator information.
Main code improvements planned for next release:
- gcWeb: new capability to produce timing plots from uploaded, user-supplied, schedule files.
- gcWeb: new capability to perform calibrator searches in batch mode, from user-supplied target lists.
wbCalib and nbCalib (V2Calib package)
Current version: 1.4.1 (released 07/12/2006)
Latest code improvements:
- Support for multiple baselines.
- Included KvisPlot utility for plotting L1 KI files (requires gnuplot).
- Release of the webCalib public interface to V2Calib.
Main code improvements planned for next release:
- Data filtering using Quality Assessment (QA) scores.
- Integration of KI/PTI L1 web-based data access and calibration tools (webCalib).
Data Access
Current version: 2.4.2 (released 07/11/2006)
Latest code improvements:
- Supports near-infrared visibility data obtained during KI Nulling observations.
- Deployed data base of PTI data.
- KI and PTI data can be found from IRSA queries.