NAPS: NAncay Preprocessing Software (written by Patrice Renaud)

NRT autocorrelator data reduction, calibration, exportation in SIR and FITS formats. (Document prepared by Jean-Michel Martin & Pierre Colom (V1.0 2002/01/10 - LaTeX 27-FEB-2002)

This document is based on the on-line NAPS help file, written by P. Renaud. A manual (in french) is located in the folder /home/renaud/naps/works :

    naps_userguide.doc   (Feb. 2007 version)
    naps_userguide.pdf   (    "       "    )

NAPS Cookbook

NAPS summary of commands

The lines below date back to 2000. You should rather consider the above summary and cookbook pdf files, as in Feb. 2008.

• Definitions
  • What is NAPS doing ?
• Commands summary (with examples)
  • SCAN (observation number == raw data files) selection
  • Data visualisation (1D)
  • 2D Data display and processing
  • SCANs process
  • USING a MASK for estimating the TSYS
  • Suppress cycles/banks
  • Automatic removal of integrations
  • Automatic removal of `bad' channels
  • Integration and creation of final spectra (result files)
  • Miscellaneous