IPP User's Manuals

This page lists the Users's Manuals for the IPP subsystems and components.

Top-Level Manuals

Document Description
IPP User's Guide Top-level manual for installing and running the IPP.
IPP Configuration Guide detailed description of the IPP configuration system.

Astronomy Analysis Programs

Document Description
psphot An object detection and modelling program.
psastro an astrometric calibration program.
ppImage a complete single-image reduction package.
ppMerge manual a tool to combine many similar images.
ppStack manual a tool to combine multiple science image with outlier rejection.
ppSub manual a tool to perform PSF matching and image differencing.

Infrastructure Tools

Document Description
Nebulous manual A tool for managing distributed data files.
IPP Database Tools A guide to ippTools, the interface to the IPP Metadata Database.
DVO manual A database for correlating detections of astronomical objects.
Pantasks manual Tools for managing distributed computing and automated processing.

Libraries

Document Description
psLib SDRS (PSDC-430-007-18) Detailed API specification for psLib; almost a user's guide.
psModules SDRS (PSDC-430-012-10) Detailed API specification for psModules; almost a user's guide.