User’s Guide

Welcome to the user’s guide for eispac! This guide will help you get started with eispac quickly and provides a high-level introduction to the core features and key functions. For more details about specific functions, please see the API Reference section.

Need help or want to contribute code? Please see the User Support or Contributing to the Code sections of the community guidelines.

• Introduction
  • What Can EISPAC Do?
  • Subcomponents of EISPAC
  • Simple Example
• A Quick Guide to EISPAC
  • read_cube
  • read_template
  • fit_spectra
• EIS Data Overview
  • EIS Level-1 HDF5 Files
• Command Line Scripts
  • eis_catalog
  • eis_browse_templates
• Downloading EIS Data
  • eis_catalog GUI or Web Browser
  • Using SunPy’s Fido Interface
• Exploring EIS data
  • Reading Data into Python
  • EISCube Objects
  • Slicing an EISCube
  • Exploring Metadata
  • Spectral Windows
  • Plotting
• Fitting the Data
  • Template Files
  • Loading Fit Templates
  • Fitting Spectra
  • EISFitResult Objects
  • EISMaps for Sunpy
• Level-1 HDF5 File Processing
  • Prepping the Data in IDL
  • Writing the HDF5 Files
  • Internal Structure
    • Data Files (*.data.h5)
    • Header Files (*.head.h5)
• Acknowledgments
• MPFIT Documentation
  • Description
  • User Function
  • Analytic Derivatives
  • Constraining Parameter Values
  • Example
  • Theory Of Operation
  • Authors
  • Modification History