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Table of Contents

NOTE: To new users of SMART, The subjects explained here are arranged in the order they would be first encountered by a new user. Please work through them in order to understand how to use SMART to process data.

Installation and set up

• Download and Installation

Basic User Facilities

• GUI Start Up
• Cursor, Mouse & Buttons

Data I/O and Management

• Project Manager
• Dataset Manager
• Error and BMASK Plane Processing

Calibration Files and Parameters

• Calibration Selection
• Calibration File Display
• Parameters
• Calibration Files
• Calibration File Naming Convention
• Advanced Parameters

Using Image Data

• SMTV - File Viewer
• Image Operations
• Errors and BMASK during Image Operations
• IDP3 - FITS File Viewer
• Quick Look - FITS File Viewer

Spectral Extraction

• Spectral Extraction
• Spectral Extraction Types
• Optimal Extraction GUI (Adopt)
• Manual Source Finder
• Bias Changes During Extraction
• Bad Pixels During Extraction

Spectral Analysis with the SMART IDEA window

• IDEA Main Window
• IDEA Stored Data Sets
• IDEA Functions
• IDEA Positional Description
• IDEA Alphabetical Listing
• IDEA Applications

Defringing

• Defringing - Theory
• Defringing - Method

Recipes for Interactive Analysis

• Cookbook
• Troubleshooting

Scripting (Batch Processing)

• Scripting
• Provided Scripts
• Data Structures
• File Type and Data Structure Conversion

Appendix

• Citations
• Reporting Bugs and Getting Help
• What are the main differences between SMART and SPICE?
• FITS Header Keywords
• FOVID Values
• Campaign Numbers
• Jargon
• FAQ
• Making RSRF Files