Introduction to IDL for Scientific Research
Please note: the password for the solutions has been changed, in order not to spoil the experience for the participants of the IDL Block Course in 2011! |
Outline:
- Lecture 1: Introduction: Getting Started lecture1 exercises1 solutions1
- Lecture 2: Loops, Functions & Procedures lecture2 exercises2 solutions2
- Lecture 3: I/O, Structures lecture3 exercises3 solutions3
- Lecture 4: Strings lecture4 exercises4 solutions4
- Lecture 5: Good Programming Practice lecture5 exercises5 solutions5
- Lecture 6: Plots lecture6 exercises6 solutions6
- Lecture 7: Graphics Keywords: Making plots nice lecture7 exercises7 solutions7
- Lecture 8: Color lecture 8 exercises8 solutions8
- Lecture 9: Fits Data lecture 9 exercises9 solutions9
- Lecture 10: Data Analysis, FFT lecture 10 exercises10 solutions10
- Lecture 11: Astro Library lecture11 exercises11 solutions11
- Lecture 12: Data Fits lecture12 exercises12 solutions12
- Lecture 13: Astronomical Data Calibration, General-Purpose Routines lecture13 exercises13
- Lecture 14: Graphical User Interfaces lecture14 exercises14 solutions14
- Lecture 15: Object Oriented Programming lecture15
Lecture 1
- IDL homepage (ITT)
- IDL astro library
- David Fanning (lots of tips and tricks)
- Craig Markwardt (lots of useful stuff, in particular MPFIT)
- Marc Buie
- IDL Newsgroup
- GNU Data Langugage
- IDL Tutorial from ITT
- our own short IDL tutorial
- idlwave
Lecture 3
- short routines for reading in data from a file:myread.pro, myreadstr.pro
- Description of new Hipparcos Catlogue (VizieR)
- full HIP data file or short version (first 1000 rows)
- exercise solutions: hipp__define.pro, readhip_new.pro
Lecture 5
- 3 different solutions to query a structure by name: query_structure_by_name_1.pro, query_structure_by_name_2.pro, query_structure_by_name_3.pro,
- exercise solutions: array_test.pro hip_dist.pro
Lecture 9
- NRAO Fits archive
- HEASARC Fits page
- atv (image display program)
- ds9 (stand-alone fits image display program)
- interface between IDL and ds9
- for exercises: image.fits
Lecture 13
- routines needed to run the example for calibration of NTT frames and subsequent centroiding:
cen.batch, reduce_ntt.pro, centroid.pro; also used: readhd.pro
the raw data can be found in here;
alternatively, an already calibrated image can be downloaded to be worked with: calim.save
- the routines cen.batch, reduce_ntt.pro and centroid.pro as pdf
Questions?
email Sabine Reffert at
sreffert@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de
and/or Rainer Köhler at
rkoehler@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de