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.

• For an introduction into plug-ins and how to use them, see the User Manual. See also our 3-minute video tutorial for a quick introduction.
• If you want to create your own plug-ins, read the Plug-in Author Manual.
• If you're interested in understanding the features available in the plug-in framework, you can read the Design Document.

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.

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Available Plug-ins

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Unit Conversion Tool

The Unit Conversion Tool converts between various units of Flux (e.g., erg/s/cm2), Flux Density (e.g., Jy), Intensity (e.g. Jy/sr, K), Integrated Intensity (e.g., K km/s), and Surface Area (e.g. Steradians). Constants are converted via a GUI, and arrays (of type Double1d) are converted via the HIPE command line. All conversion formulae are derived within the help.

To install, select "Plug-ins" from the Tools menu. Click "Install new plug-in" and select the following URL:

https://nhscsci.ipac.caltech.edu/common/DPsoftware/UnitConversionTool/UnitConversionTool_0.11.jar

The tool will auto-update itself. The Unit Conversion Tool is provided by Steve Lord and Annie Hoac (NHSC).

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_1.9.jar

The installation is automatic. See the SPIA home for more information and documentation. SPIA development is led by Bernhard Schulz (NHSC). Support is available via the NHSC Helpdesk.

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

PACS Simple Aperture Photometry Plug-in

This task performs simple aperture photometry on a set of SimpleImage. It compliments and uses the ‘annularSkyAperturePhotometryTask’ interactive photometry tool already available in HIPE with added functionality catering to science needs. It is used to perform aperture photometry of unblended sources on single or multiple PACS frame.

To install, select “Plug-ins” from the Tools menu. Click “Install new plug-in” and enter the following URL:

https://nhscsci.ipac.caltech.edu/pacs/scripts/Plugins/PacsSimpleAperturePhotometry_1.0.jar

The tool will auto-update itself.

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:

• Restart HIPE
• 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_2.9.9.1.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.

    https://nhscsci.ipac.caltech.edu/common/DPsoftware/Cosmology/Cosmology_1.3.jar

HerschelQuickLook Plug-in

Access the quick look data products from the Herschel Space Observatory, searching by target name, sky coordinates or observation identifier.

To install, select "Plug-ins" from the "Tools" menu. Click "Install new plug-in" and enter the following URL:

    http://herschel.be/twiki/pub/Public/DpHipePlugins/HerschelQuickLook_1.8.jar

Restart HIPE, go to "Tools" menu and select "HerschelQuickLook"

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

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