CIAO (pwkit.environments.ciao)¶
ciao - running software in the CIAO environment
To use, export an environment variable $PWKIT_CIAO pointing to the CIAO installation root.
Unpacking data sets¶
Data sets are provided as tar files. They unpack to a directory named by the
“obsid” which contains an oif.fits file and primary and secondary
subdirectories.
CIAO installation notes¶
Download installer script from http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/download/. Select
some kind of parent directory like /soft/ciao for both downloading
tarballs and installing CIAO itself. This may also download and install the
large “caldb” data set. All of the files will end up in a subdirectory such as
/soft/ciao/ciao-4.8.