HEASoft and XSPEC are now available as conda packages. See details ....
HEASARC Software
The following software is supported by the HEASARC.
Most of this software is designed for professional researchers and advanced students
for the analysis of scientific astronomical observations in
FITS format.
These software packages are to be downloaded to the users machine.
Web-based tools are available in our tools page.
This page includes sections on:
This page includes sections on:
- HEASoft and its sub-packages
- Other Software, which includes: HEASoft in Docker, SciServer, and other tools
| Cfitsio | A library for reading and writing FITS files for C and Fortran programmers. |
| Ftools | General FITS file utility programs and mission-specific data analysis tools. |
| XANADU | Suite of spectral (xspec), timing (xronos), and image (ximage) analysis programs. |
| Xselect | Multipurpose tool for filtering event files and generating images, spectra, and light curves. |
| Ftools: | General FITS file utility programs and mission-specific data analysis tools. |
| HEASoftpy: | A Python 3 interface to HEASoft |
| FV | Interactive editor and viewer for astronomical data files in FITS format. |
| XSTAR: | Program for calculating physical conditions and emission spectra in photoionized gases. |
| HEASoft in a Container | Install and run HEASoft in a Docker container |
| HEASoft and XSPEC in conda | Install HEASoft or XSPEC as conda packages |
| SciServer | Run HEASoft (and CIAO, Fermitools, XMM-SAS, Spex etc) in an online platform without a need to install the software or download the data. Define your own collaboration groups, share code and results, etc. |
| PIMMS | Estimate the count rates from fluxes or vice versa, or estimate the count rates in one instrument from those measured in another. |
| ASTRO-Update | Latest Versions of Useful Multi-mission Software |
| Fits | Data Formats, Standards and HEASARC Conventions for High-Energy Astrophysics Data |
HEASoft 6.35.1 patch update has been released. HEASoft 6.35.1 contains an update to the extractor task.
The first BurstCube Calibration Database (version 20250226) has been released at the HEASARC. As part of this release, the CALDB caldb.config file has also been updated to include the BurstCube release, and the caldb setup tar file has been updated with the new caldb.config file.
HEASoft 6.35 has been released. HEASoft 6.35 contains new and updated mission-specific data analysis software (XRISM, IXPE, Swift, RXTE, et al.) 6.35 release notes for details.
The Swift SC has been updated to version 20250304 to update the clock correction file to v165 ...
Old tools:
- Profit: GUI tool for visualizing and modeling high-resolution spectra.
- Maki: Displays fields of view for various instruments on FITS images. Supports the Suzaku XIS & HXD, Chandra ACIS & HRC, XMM EPIC, and RXTE PCA detectors.
- Hera (DEPRECATED): Run the FTOOLS and XANADU software on the Hera servers at the HEASARC, without having to install the software packages locally.