Artigo Revisado por pares

Xvoigt: An Interactive Absorption Line Fitting Program for the X Window System

1995; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 12; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1323358000020324

ISSN

1448-6083

Autores

David P. Max, Geoff B Bailey,

Tópico(s)

Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Resumo

Abstract We have developed an easy-to-use, mouse-driven program for the interactive fitting of interstellar absorption lines in high-resolution astronomical spectra. The program, Xvoigt, gives values for the column density and velocity dispersion of the absorbing clouds. It runs under the popular X Window system available on most workstations, and offers significant enhancements over existing profile-fitting software. Xvoigt can be an important adjunct to automatic programs for fitting absorption lines in low to moderate signal-to-noise QSO or other spectra, and is ideal for demonstrating the details and difficulties of absorption line analysis.

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