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XSTAR2XSPEC consists of three major components (in addition to XSTAR
- xstar2xspec is a Perl script which
manages the overall program flow of XSTAR2XSPEC.
- xstinitable is an FTOOL used in the
initialization phase of XSTAR2XSPEC. It builds the FITS PARAMETER
table from the input data (xstinitable.fits) and a text file
(xstinitable.lis) which is basically of list of all the calls to
XSTAR to generate the required spectra.
- xstar2table is an FTOOL called after xstar in each
iteration of the xstar2xspec loop.