Documentation & Tutorials

The main funcionality and operation of p3d are described in the A&A-paper. The function of each routine, including the interactive interface(s) are described in the header of the respective file.

All the documentation headers of the separate IDL-routines are – for the latest development version on the Subversion trunk – used to create a more visually appealing version, which is presented here. The routines have been sorted into the following eight categories:

• main tool
• display routine
• spectrum tracing
• spectrum extraction
• wavelength calibration
• auxiliary routines
• tool
• simulations
• differential atmospheric refraction
• line fitting

The software package contains tutorials for various instruments (see the doc directory in your installed files). The following list contains download links for data files associated to each tutorial:

• Tutorial: MRS1, instrument configuration – p3d_tutorial_mrs1_setup_2017-03-10.zip (releases ≥ 2.4.1).
• Tutorial: MRS1, data reduction – p3d_tutorial_mrs1_dr_2019-11-13.zip (releases ≥ 2.6.4).
• Tutorial: MRS1, visualization – p3d_tutorial_mrs1_vis_2020-01-25.zip (releases ≥ 2.6.4).
• Tutorial: MUSE-WFM, visualization – p3d_tutorial_muse-wfm_vis_2018-06-09.zip (releases ≥ 2.6.1 and the branch sav-2018-p26).
  Please have a look at the README file in the zip archive regarding how to retrieve the data file required to follow the tutorial.
• Tutorial: PMAS/Larr, data reduction – p3d_tutorial_pmas-larr_dr_2019-11-13.zip (releases ≥ 2.6.4).
• Tutorial: PMAS/Larr, visualization – p3d_tutorial_pmas-larr_vis_2019-11-13.zip (releases ≥ 2.6.4).
• Tutorial: PMAS/PPak, data reduction – p3d_tutorial_pmas-ppak_dr_2019-11-13.zip (releases ≥ 2.6.4).
• Tutorial: PMAS/PPak, visualization – p3d_tutorial_pmas-ppak_vis_2019-11-13.zip (releases ≥ 2.6.4).

Earlier on hand descriptions on how to use the different tasks and modes of p3d, with different instruments, are provided at the p3d documentation wiki (please note that this is work in development).