From b1d1abf7200fc54f774b99c776891e32588feffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jürgen Knödlseder Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:45:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Copy over introduction from LateX User Manual --- doc/source/user_manual/introduction.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 doc/source/user_manual/introduction.rst diff --git a/doc/source/user_manual/introduction.rst b/doc/source/user_manual/introduction.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c0874a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/source/user_manual/introduction.rst @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Introduction +============ + +ctools is a highly modular collection of utilities for processing +and analysing CTA reconstructed event data in the FITS (Flexible +Image Transport System) data format. Each utility presents itself +as a FTOOL (see http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/) and performs +a single simple task such as event binning, event selection or model +fitting. Individual utilities can easily be chained together in +scripts to achieve more complex operations, either by using the command +line interface, or by using the Python scripting language. The ctools +user interface is controlled by standard IRAF-style parameter files. +Software is written in C++ to provide portability across most computer +systems. The data format dependencies between hardware platforms are +isolated through the cfitsio library package from HEASARC +(http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/). + +This User Manual describes the use of the ctools software. \ No newline at end of file -- libgit2 0.21.4