Weeds

Documentation Manual
June 9th, 2016

Sébastien Maret
Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble

Pierre Hily-Blant
Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble

Jérôme Pety
Institut de Radio-Astronomie Millimétrique

Sébastien Bardeau
Institut de Radio-Astronomie Millimétrique

Emmanuel Reynier
Institut de Radio-Astronomie Millimétrique

Mathieu Lonjaret
Institut de Radio-Astronomie Millimétrique

Arnaud Belloche
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie

Note: this is the on-line version of the WEEDS Manual. A PDF version is also available.

This manual documents Weeds, an extension of the CLASS radio astronomy software to reduce and analyze spectral surveys or spectral line observation with large bandwidths. Please report any errors in this manual to `gildas@iram.fr`. Related information is available in

- the CLASS manual

- What is Weeds?
- Getting started
- Selecting a spectral database
- Identifying lines in a spectrum
- Using spectral line indexes
- Modeling a spectrum
- More information on modsource
- For more information
- List of contributing authors
- Acknowledging Weeds developers and spectral line databases in your publications
- List of major changes
  - April 1st, 2016 release
  - March 1st, 2014 release
- WEEDS Language Internal Help
  - Language
  - LFIND
  - LGET
  - LID
  - LLIST
  - LPLOT
  - MODSHOW
  - MODSOURCE
  - SCANFIND
- About this document ...