ISIS

Introduction

ISIS, the Interactive Spectral Interpretation System, is designed to facilitate the interpretation and analysis of high resolution X-ray spectra. It is being developed as a programmable, interactive tool for studying the physics of X-ray spectrum formation, supporting measurement and identification of spectral features, and interaction with a database of atomic structure parameters and plasma emission models.

Documentation

Homepage is http://space.mit.edu/asc/isis/

Initialisation

No initialisation.

Version

We are currently on 1.6.2

Usage

Create this alias in your .cshrc
alias isis 'env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /usr/local/isis/1.6.2/bin/isis'
 
or in your .bashrc or .bash_profile
alias isis='env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /usr/local/isis/1.6.2/bin/isis'

Author, References and Acknowledgements

See http://space.mit.edu/asc/isis/cite.html

Potential Problems

isis needs the s-lang in /usr/local/lib and cannot use the one that comes with Linux in /usr/lib. The one in /usr/lib cannot be removed with yum as it has too many system dependencies.

You should think twice before extensively googling this software.

Rhys Morris

Last modified: Tuesday, 06 February 2018