PINGSoft: an IDL visualisation and manipulation tool for Integral Field Spectroscopic data

TL;DR

PINGSoft is an IDL-based toolkit that provides interactive visualization and manipulation of Integral Field Spectroscopic data, optimized for large datasets and offering various data processing routines.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive, user-friendly IDL package for visualizing and processing IFS data, with features tailored for large datasets and diverse data formats.

Findings

Efficient visualization of large IFS datasets.

Versatile routines for data extraction and conversion.

Open-source availability at specified URL.

Abstract

In this article we introduce PINGSoft, a set of IDL routines designed to visualise and manipulate, in an interactive and friendly way, Integral Field Spectroscopic data. The package is optimised for large databases and a fast visualisation rendering. PINGSoft includes routines to extract regions of interest by hand or within a given geometric aperture, to integrate the spectra within a given region, to convert between different IFS formats, to read, edit and write IFS data files, and some other miscellaneous codes especially useful in astronomy and spectroscopy. Here we describe its major characteristics and requirements, providing examples and describing its capabilities. The PINGSoft package is freely available at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/research/pings