94NOV MIDAS Users Guide Volumes A, B and C Overview

Volume A:

describes the basic MIDAS system with all general purpose facilities such as MIDAS Control Language, all available commands, data input/output (including plotting and image display), table system (MIDAS Data Base). Site specific features are given in an appendix.

Volume B:

describes how to use the MIDAS system for astronomical data reduction. Application packages for special types of data or reductions (e.g. long slit and echelle spectra, object search, or crowded field photometry) are discussed assuming intensity calibrated data. A set of appendices gives a detailed description of the reduction of raw data from ESO instruments.

Volume C:

gives the on-line detailed description for all commands available. This volume is not available via hypertext to remote users as it can be accessed via the Midas GUI XHelp (from the shell with helpmidas or from Midas with create/gui help).

Volume A: The Basic System

• Introduction
• Cook-Book
• Monitor and Command Language
• Data Structures
• Table File System
• Graphic and Image Display
• Data Exchange Format
• Fitting of Data

Appendix to Volume A

• Command Summary
• Acknowledgements
• Site Specific Implementation
• Release Notes
• References
• Index

Volume B: Data Reduction

• Introduction
• Computational Methods
• CCD Reductions
• Object Search and Classification
• Crowded Field Photometry
• Long-Slit and 1D Spectra
• Echelle Spectra
• Inter-stellar/galactic Absorption Line Modelling
• Test Data
• Multivariate Analysis Methods
• DAOPHOT II: The Next Generation
• Time Series Analysis
• PEPSYS general photometry package
• The Wavelet Transform
• The Data Organizer
• ASTROMET astrometry package
• Command Summary

Appendix to Volume B

• Detectors
• CES
• Echelle Reduction
• PISCO
• IRSPEC REDUCTION
• Reduction of Long Slit and 1D Spectra
• Optopus
• File Formats Required for Photometry