Links
| Data-reduction related links p3d handles most data-reduction tasks by itself, but you may find it helpful to also use other, complementing, tools. Or maybe you want to compare the outcome of different tools. Here is an incomplete list of related tools that could be of use, and sites that contain valuable information on Integral Field Spectroscopy: |
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| R3d | The R3d IFS data-reduction package. |
| E3d | The Euro3D Visualization Tool. |
| Cubehelix | The Cubehelix color table. |
| ColorBrewer | The Color Brewer color tables. |
| astro-d11 | The Python version of the p3d tool p3d_d11. |
| ESO pipelines | ESO provides data-reduction pipelines for both the VIMOS and the FLAMES instruments, as well as for most of the other instruments at the VLT. |
| FITS | The Astronomical Image and Table format. With the information on this website you can learn everything about the FITS image format. |
| CASA (viewer) | The Common Astronomy Software Applications package, is being developed with the primary goal of supporting the data post-processing needs of the next generation of radio astronomical telescopes such as ALMA and EVLA. Data cubes written by p3d can – starting with release 2.2 – be viewed with the CASA viewer. |
| SAOImage DS9 | Astronomical Data Visualization. This tool allows you to study FITS images in detail. |
| PINGSoft | PINGSoft is a set of IDL routines that is designed to visualize and manipulate Integral Field Spectroscopic (IFS) data. Note! That starting with version 2.1.1 (revision 1602) p3d provides fiber position tables that allow the outcome of p3d to be used directly with PINGSoft. |
| QFitsView | This tool also allows you to study FITS images in detail. |
| TOPCAT | This is a Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables. With this tool it is easy to check the contents of binary table fits files. |
| The IFS Wiki | This site contains something about most things related to integral field spectroscopy in astronomy. |
| NASA links | NASA hosts a web page with links to other astronomy and IDL-related sites. |
| IDL-related links | |
| Auxiliary software | In addition to IDL, p3d requires auxiliary software to work (unless you use the binary files, those programs are then compiled-in). The p3d distribution contains a tool that downloads the necessary files automatically for you, and puts the extracted files in the p3d/contrib/ directory: |
| Wikipedia | Find some information about IDL at Wikipedia here. |
| David Fanning | has written the book "Coyote´s Guide to IDL Programming". While retired since 2015, his site still provides a lot of valuable information if you want to, or need to, know more about programming in IDL. |
| Ronn Kling | sells books about IDL. |
| Another IDL book | The book "Practical IDL Programming" can be bought here. |