COMB PACKAGE
             Compact object simulations on the sphere
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DESCRIPTION 
     This package provides functionality to support the simulation on
     the sphere of compact objects embedded in a stochastic background
     process of specified power spectrum. More specifically, compact
     objects with an arbitrary template function may be embedded in
     background Gaussian cosmic microwave background radiation. This
     is the primary astrophysical application that motivates the
     construction of the library. Support is provided to convolve with
     beam functions and to add additional white noise.

VERSION
     Release 1.0, 1 July 2008

AUTHORS
     J. D. McEwen (http://www.jasonmcewen.org)

REFERENCE
     If you use the code to produce published works please reference
     the download site http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~jdm57/ and our
     related papers:

       J. D. McEwen, S. M. Feeney, M. C. Johnson, and
       H. V. Peiris. Optimal filters for detecting cosmic bubble
       collisions. Phys. Rev. D., 85(10):103502, 2012
       (arXiv:1202.2861).

       J. D. McEwen, M. P. Hobson, and A. N. Lasenby. Optimal filters
       on the sphere. IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc., 56(8):3813-3823, 2008 
       (astro-ph/0612688).

DOCUMENTATION
     See doc/index.html

REQUIREMENTS
     S2 (http://www.jasonmcewen.org/codes.html)
     HEALPix (http://healpix.jpl.nasa.gov/)
     CFITSIO (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/fitsio/)

INSTALLATION
     See doc/index.html

DOWNLOAD
     http://www.jasonmcewen.org

SUPPORT
     Contact Jason McEwen 

NOTE
     The package is still under development
     Please report problems/bugs by email to Jason McEwen

LICENSE 
     COMB package to provide functionality to support the
     simulation on the sphere of compact objects embedded in a
     stochastic background process
     Copyright (C) 2005  Jason McEwen

     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
     modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
     as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
     of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
     GNU General Public License for more details (LICENSE.txt).

     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
     Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, 
     MA  02110-1301, USA.