FitsStats is discontinued. Its core algorithms are now implemented in ImageStatistics and the other tools in GNU Astronomy Utilities:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/
Please visit there for a much better user experience and more accurate programs.
Get the basic statistics of a FITS image or a region.
This is a very simple program to read the statistics of a full FITS image or part of it. A mask can also be specified. If a mask is specified, only pixels that are not masked (have a zero mask value) will be used in the analysis. The histogram and cumulative frequency plot of the desired pixels can also be saved. A simple ASCII histogram will also be plotted on the standard output for a simple and fast comparison before going onto the details.
FitsStats uses the standard GNU
autoconf and GNU
automake. To configure, build
and install FitsStats you just have to run these three commands in the
unpacked directory ($ is for users and # is for the root):
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su
# make install
This will install FitsStats in the standard directories for you to use it from any where. The building and installation process is highly configurable, read the AutoConf and AutoMake manuals for more information.
To see the full options along with a short explanation, you can run
fitsstats --help.
Here is a sample output on the standard output:
FitsStats 0.1 (10 October 2014) started on Fri Oct 10 22:28:12 2014
- Input ./mock.fits[2] is read.
-- Number of points 40401
-- Minimum -397.605865
-- Maximum 8099.541016
-- Mean 15.890585
-- Standard deviation 146.829926
-- Median 11.987528
-- ASCII histogram in the range: -250.000000 - 300.000000:
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- Histogram saved in ./mock_hist.txt (400 rows)
- CFP saved in ./mock_cfp.txt (400 rows)
- 4.00 sigma-clipping by convergence (med, mean, std, number):
1: (15.890585, 11.987528, 146.829926, 40401)
2: (12.297149, 11.775166, 102.861244, 40320)
3: (12.011212, 11.667698, 102.215263, 40296)
- 4.00 sigma-clipping 5 times (med, mean, std, number):
1: (15.890585, 11.987528, 146.829926, 40401)
2: (12.297149, 11.775166, 102.861244, 40320)
3: (12.011212, 11.667698, 102.215263, 40296)
4: (12.021378, 11.667698, 102.196159, 40295)
5: (12.021378, 11.667698, 102.196159, 40295)
FitsStats 0.1 finished in 0.0471 seconds
The histogram you see above is only for a very fast and immediate
analysis in 60 bins. By default FitsStats will print the information
to plot the histogram and cumulative frequency plot of the desired
pixels in two columns in a simple .txt files. You can feed this
.txt file to any plotting tool (I recommend
pgfplots).
- Add much more functionality and generality.
- Work on a better user experience.
- Fix any bugs I have not found yet!
I hope FitsStats will be useful for you. If you find any problems in this program please contact me so I can correct them. I would also be very glad to hear any suggestions or comments you might have, thank you.
http://astr.tohoku.ac.jp/~akhlaghi/
Copyright (C) 2014 Mohammad Akhlaghi
Tohoku University Astronomical Institute
http://astr.tohoku.ac.jp/~akhlaghi/
FitsStats 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
FitsStats 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.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with FitsStats. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.