... In this paper, a project aiming to allow access to data archives by means of a query-by-example mechanism is described. The basic user query would simply be the submission of an input image, either 1-D or 2-D; the system should allow retrieval of archived images similar to an input one on the basis of some ``resemblance parameter". ... A system called QUBE is currently being designed to support the QUery-By-Example paradigm in accessing astronomical data archives. ... the QUBE User Interface. ...

Next: NICMOS Science Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: NICMOS Software at the . ... Reference File Tools . Image Analysis and Reduction . ... These include the tasks used in the STScI pipeline, tools to generate the reference files used by the calibration pipeline tasks, and general image analysis, manipulation, and arithmetic tasks. ... Calnica is used to apply instrumental calibrations to individual datasets, while calnicb is used to process associated sets of NICMOS images. ...

specpsf -- Form a longslit spectrum for a point source from many point spread function images specpsf refima psfwavs psfims sliwid pixwid subsam cenoff psfpos outpsf . ... The name of the input 2-dimensional reference image to supply the dimensions and header information for the output longslit Point Spread Function (PSF) spectrum image. psfwavs = "" [table file name] . ... The centre of the Point Spread Function in each input image is determined by centroiding and the slit is placed over the image. ...