HIPE Plug-ins
This page lists (some of) the plug-ins currently available for HIPE.
If you would like to add yours, please send me an e-mail at paul.balm
@esa.int.
The plug-ins on this page are maintained by third-party developers. They are provided "as is", without any warranty and support by the Herschel Science Centre. Plug-in developers are solely responsible for testing and support. |
The HSC also maintains a page with
user contributed software -- these are typically stand-alone programs, not plug-ins for HIPE.
Available Plug-ins
SPIRE Photometric Interactive Analysis (SPIA)
The
SPIA package
is a plug-in to facilitate artifact removal and map-making from SPIRE scan maps.
To install, select "Plug-ins" from the Tools menu. Click "Install new plug-in" and enter the following URL:
https://nhscsci.ipac.caltech.edu/spire/DPsoftware/spia/scripts/spia_1.6.jar
The installation is automatic. See the
SPIA home
for more information and documentation. SPIA is provided by Bernhard Schulz (NHSC).
PACS Calibration Products Plug-in
This plugin is in beta testing, please use with care!
This plug-in loads the PACS Calibration Products from a web server and installs the files on your local system.
To install, select "Plug-ins" from the Tools menu. Click "Install new plug-in" and enter the following URL:
http://pacs.ster.kuleuven.be/pub/plugins/pacs_cal_plugin_0.5.jar
The installation is automatic and will present you with a dialog to specify the local directory in which you want to install the calibration products.
Note that the plugin will update your calibration products only after restarting HIPE!
Included in this release:
- automatically check for new versions of calibration products
- user script that allows the user to start the update at any time during a HIPE session
Future releases will include:
- automatically check for updates of the PACS Calibration Products Plug-in
MUST Plug-in
The MUST plug-in allows you to connect to ESOC's MUST database and process the housekeeping parameters.

At the moment the MUST database can only be accessed within the ESA internal network_
Usage
After installation:
- Go to menu Edit -> Preferences.
- Select Must from the tree at the left of the pop-up window.
- Modify the user and password information (if you do not know your user or password for MUST, please ask your MUST contact person)/
- Click Apply.
- Go to the menu Window -> Show View -> Must.
- In the Must View, click the button Get Parameters.
- Now you can plot the parameters you want.
If you want to make your own script to modify the parameters:
- Go to Workbench perspective
- Load the default script(Go to the menu Tools->must_herschel_plugin-composite.py)
- Modify this example script at your wish.
- Run the script
Install
To install, select "Plug-ins" from the Tools menu. Click "Install new plug-in" and enter the following URL:
http://herschel.esac.esa.int/twiki/pub/Public/DpHipePlugins/must_herschel_plugin_0.4.jar
CASSIS Plug-in
CASSIS
is a spectral analysis tool-set containing:
- Line Identification Tool
- Prediction of spectra
- Comparison of telescope or laboratory data with a wide variety of models
- Tools to determine the physical parameters of the sources
(See the web-site for details.) The plug-in makes this functionality available directly in HIPE.
To install, select "Plug-ins" from the Tools menu. Click "Install new plug-in" and enter the following URL:
http://cassis.cesr.fr/download/cassis_2.9.3.jar
ScanAmorphos Plug-in
The purpose of the scanamorphos plug-in is to read data from the
scanamorphos
program. Output from this program is not directly readable in HIPE, due to omissions in the WCS information. This plug-in provides a task called
importScanAmorphos, which loads the data, fixes the WCS and produces a SimpleImage.
Go to the plug-in page
Cosmology Plug-in
A HIPE plugin to perform common Cosmological calculations. Based on Dave Hogg's "Distance measures in Cosmology", and similar to Ned Wright's javascript Cosmology Calculator. The plug-is listed on the
Community Support Page
of the NHSC.
https://nhscsci.ipac.caltech.edu/common/DPsoftware/Cosmology/Cosmology_1.2.jar
Demonstration Plug-in
The demonstration plug-in is intended for plug-in developers. It shows some features of plug-in, such as including a license text, using a custom installer and custom configuration.
http://herschel.be/twiki/pub/Public/DpHipePlugins/demo_1.1.jar