RE: FITS and ROOT

From: Valeri Onuchin <Valeri.Onoutchine_at_cern.ch>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:07:39 +0200


Hi,
thanks to everybody who answered to the "FITS and ROOT" thread. Actually intention to support of FITS image (say picture) format in ROOT was declared at the first introduction of TImage/TASImage class (kFits file type from TImage.h) but was not implemented. We will revisit it soon.
In connection with previous topic "wikipedia & ROOT", I was slightly surprised by mention by Andy the FITS format (which is in general a table of numbers) as format for saving of HEP data, which is in general has hierachical structure.

Thanks.
Regards. Valeriy

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick van Eijndhoven [mailto:Nick_at_phys.uu.nl] Sent: Thu 6/29/2006 12:49 PM
To: Nicolas.Produit_at_obs.unige.ch; Valeri Onuchin Cc: roottalk (Mailing list discussing all aspects of the ROOT system) Subject: Re: [ROOT] FITS and ROOT  

Hi Nicolas,
Yep, I have also mentioned to Valeri (cc. to Rene and Fons) that a native FITS in ROOT would be great w.r.t. the multi-messenger campaign we are currently setting up between the IceCube and the gamma ray community to investigate astrophysical objects both in EM radiation as well as in neutrinos.

Cheers,
Nick.

> Hi,
>
> FITS format integration has already been done in ISDC by Reiner Rohlfs.
> We distribute astroroot which is root bundled with FITS and other goodies.
> http://isdc.unige.ch/index.cgi?Soft+nothing+Soft/AstroRoot/install.html
> For example we have a generic tool that can transform any FITS table
> into a ROOT tree, which is basically all what you need.
>
> I would love to see FITS native into ROOT.
>
> FITS is an important and unavoidable format if you do astrophysics.
> Many database that could be of interest to HEP (like the BATSE GRB
> catalog) are natively in FITS.
>
> See you.
>
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