EOVSA Data Analysis Tutorial

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Browsing and Obtaining EOVSA data

Browsing EOVSA data in RHESSI Browser

Currently the most convenient way for browsing EOVSA data is through the RHESSI Browser. First, check the "EOVSA Radio Data" box on the data selection area (top-left corner). Then select year/month/date to view the overall EOVSA dynamic spectrum. Note if a time is selected at early UTC hours (e.g., 0-3 UT), it will show the EOVSA dynamic spectrum from the previous day. Also note that EOVSA data were not commissioned for spectroscopic imaging prior to April 2017. An example of the overview EOVSA dynamic spectrum for 2017 Aug 21 is shown in the figure on the right.

The overview EOVSA dynamic spectra are from the median of the uncalibrated cross-power visibilities at a few short baselines, which are not (but a good proxy of) the total-power dynamic spectra. The effects of spatial information blended in the cross-power visibilities can be clearly seen as the "U"-shaped features throughout the day, which are due to the movement of the Sun across the sky that effectively changes the length and orientation of the baselines. Flare times can be easily seen in the EOVSA dynamic spectra, which usually appear as vertical bright features across many frequency bands. More information can be found on this page.

We are currently working on a pipeline to create quicklook full-disk images for implementation at the RHESSI Browser in a way similar as the RHESSI quicklook images. Please stay tuned.

Once you identify the flare time, you can find the full-resolution (1-s cadence) uncalibrated visibility files (in Miriad format) at this link. Each data file is usually 10 minutes in duration. Name convention is YYYYMMDD/IDBYYYYMMDDHHMMSS, where the time in the file name indicates the start time of the visibility data.

Calibrating EOVSA data

  • Calibration: Calibration of the EOVSA data is an involved process. We are currently working on a semi-automatic pipeline for calibrating the visibility data. At this moment, however, please contact the EOVSA team if you wish to have calibrated visibility data for a specific event. In the near future, we envision the pipeline-calibrated visibility data to be available for download on a regular basis.
  • Self-calibration: For improving the quality of the imaging, self-calibration is usually needed. This is still a work-in-progress, but we have had some successful practice in self-calibrating some flare events. Please refer to Self-Calibrating Flare Data for examples and detailed discussions on our current practice for self-calibrating EOVSA flare data.

Analyzing EOVSA data

Software

We have developed two packages for EOVSA data processing and analysis:

  • SunCASA A wrapper around CASA (the Common Astronomy Software Applications package) for synthesis imaging and visualizing solar spectral imaging data. CASA is one of the leading software tool for "supporting the data post-processing needs of the next generation of radio astronomical telescopes such as ALMA and VLA", an international effort led by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The current version of CASA uses Python (2.7) interface. More information about CASA can be found on NRAO's CASA website . Note, CASA is available ONLY on UNIX-BASED PLATFORMS (and therefore, so is SunCASA).
  • GSFIT A IDL-widget(GUI)-based spectral fitting package called gsfit, which provides a user-friendly display of EOVSA image cubes and an interface to fast fitting codes (via platform-dependent shared-object libraries).

There are two approaches in accessing our software packages. One is through our Amazon AWS server (recommended for participants of the EOVSA tutorial at the RHESSI 18 Workshop). Another is to install them on your own machine. We discuss the first approach in Section 2.1, and the second in Section 2.2 (SunCASA) and 2.3 (GSFIT).

Using Software on AWS server (Recommended for this Tutorial)

We use an Amazon AWS Lightsail server for testing purposes. The server has 2 CPUs, 8 GB RAM, and 160 GB SSD storage. It runs CentOS 7 (1901-01) Linux. Please limit your usage to LIGHTWEIGHT DATA PROCESSING ONLY.

NOTE: THE ACCOUNT IS ONLY INTENDED FOR THE EOVSA TUTORIAL, BUT *NOT* FOR CARRYING OUT ACTUAL DATA REDUCTION

  • Obtain SSH Key from Bin Chen
  • Put it under a secure location on your own machine.
  • Follow remaining directions depending on your client machine.

Connecting via Linux / Mac

Recommend to use "~/.ssh" (create if it does not exist by "mkdir ~/.ssh").

  • Edit the permission of ~/.ssh and the key (here I use ~/.ssh as the directory to place your key)
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 400 ~/.ssh/guest-virgo.pem
  • Log on to test AWS server (password-less)
ssh -X -i ~/.ssh/guest-virgo.pem guest@virgo.arcs.az.njit.edu

Now you are connected to virgo.

Connecting via Windows (MobaXterm)

Recommend to use "Documents\MobaXterm\home\.ssh", which should exist if you have already installed the free MobaXterm[1].

  • Create new session, click SSH, enter virgo.arcs.az.njit.edu for Remote host, guest for username.
  • On advanced SSH settings tab, click Use private key, navigate to and select file guest_virgo.pem
  • Close setup window and click the new session's icon, which will log you in.

Startup SunCASA and sswIDL

Once you are connected to virgo, you will have access to SunCASA and GSFIT (included in the sswIDL installation). To not interfere with others (who share the same "guest" account), please create your own directory and work under it. For easier identification, please use the initial of your first name and your full last name as the name of your directory (here "bchen" is used as an example).

[guest@ip-172-26-5-203 ~]$ mkdir bchen
[guest@ip-172-26-5-203 ~]$ cd bchen

To enter SunCASA

[guest@ip-172-26-5-203 ~/bchen]$ suncasa

To enter sswIDL

[guest@ip-172-26-5-203 ~/bchen]$ sswidl

SunCASA Installation

Please click on the link above for details regarding installation of SunCASA on your own machine (only available on Unix-bases OS). This will take you to another page.

GSFIT Installation

Please click on the link above for details regarding installation of GSFIT on your own machine. This will take you to another page.

Example Data and Scripts

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate steps for spectral imaging (self-)calibrated visibility data for a C-class flare on 2017 Aug 21 at ~20:20 UT (Section 3.3), followed by a tutorial on visualizing and analyzing the resulting spectral imaging cube (Section 3.4). The visibility data can be downloaded from this link. If you are on our AWS cloud server (means for accessing the server are discussed in Section 3.1.1), it is located at /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/IDB20170821201800-202300.4s.slfcaled.ms. To reduce the amount of data for this tutorial, the time resolution has been reduced by a factor of 4, to 4 s per sample. The actual time resolution available is 1 s. If you are on Virgo, please copy it over to your own working directory that you created earlier under the guest account (e.g., ~/guest/bchen/).

cd yourworkdirectory
cp -r /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/IDB20170821201800-202300.4s.slfcaled.ms ./

Example scripts for doing the analysis covered in this tutorial are available as this Github repository. On Virgo, the scripts can be found under /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/.

Spectral Imaging with SunCASA

EOVSA data is handled in CASA tables system, known as a Measurement Set (MS). The actual visibility data are stored in a MAIN table that contains a number of rows, each of which is effectively a single timestamp for a single spectral window and a single baseline. Within SunCASA, you will have access to a collection of tools that allow you to explore and utilize the new radio dynamic spectroscopic imaging data from EOVSA. To start SunCASA, use:

suncasa

Within SunCASA, you are under the IPython environment. Everything you know about (I)Python should be applicable here. The installation comes with frequently used packages including Matplotlib, Numpy, SciPy, AstroPy, SunPy. However, it is not very intuitive to add (compatible) Python packages within (Sun)CASA. If you choose to do so, you may want to check this page on how to install AstroPy (which is not originally shipped with CASA) within CASA. This method is generally applicable to adding other packages (but not thoroughly tested). If you need some specific packages for your analysis, and it does not require direct interaction with (Sun)CASA, we recommend you to use the standard Python environment. On Virgo, we have installed Anaconda 3, which can be accessed by, e.g., typing "ipython" in a terminal window.

Cross-Power Dynamic Spectrum

The first module we introduce is dspec. This module allows you to generate a dynamic spectrum from an MS file, and visualize it. You can select a subset of data by specifying a time range, spectral windows/channels, antenna baseline, or uvrange. The selection syntax follows the CASA convention. More information of CASA selection syntax may be found in the above links or the Measurement Selection Syntax.

Figure 1: EOVSA cross power dynamic spectrum at stokes XX and YY
from suncasa.utils import dspec as ds
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
## define the visbility data file
msfile = 'IDB20170821201800-202300.4s.slfcaled.ms' 
## define the output filename of the dynamic spectrum 
specfile = msfile + '.dspec.npz'  
## select relatively short baselines within a length (here I use 0.15~0.5km), 
## and take a median cross all of them (with the domedian parameter)
## alternatively, you can use the "bl" parameter to select individual baseline(s)
uvrange = '0.15~0.5km'
## this step generates a dynamic spectrum and saves it to specfile
ds.get_dspec(vis=msfile, specfile=specfile, uvrange=uvrange, domedian=True)
## Other optional parameters are available for more selection criteria 
## such as frequency range ("spw"), and time range ("timeran")
## Use "ds.get_dspec?" to see more options

## define the polarizations to show (here I use XX and YY)
pol='XXYY'
## The following command displays the resulting cross-power dynamic spectrum
ds.plt_dspec(specfile, pol=pol)
plt.show()

Now you should have a popup window showing the dynamic spectrum. Hover your mouse over the dynamic spectrum, you can read the time and frequency information at the bottom of the window.

Quick-Look Imaging

Imaging EOVSA data involves image cleaning, as well as solar coordinate transformation and image registration. We bundled a number of these steps ino a module named qlookplot, allowing users to generate a observing summary plot showing the cross power dynamic spectrum, GOES light curves and EOVSA quick-look images. Now let us start with making a summary plot of EOVSA image at the spectral window 5 (5.4 GHz).

Figure 2: EOVSA single band observing summary
## in SunCASA
from suncasa.utils import qlookplot as ql
msfile = 'IDB20170821201800-202300.4s.slfcaled.ms'
## provide the dynamic spectrum data or it will generate a new one.
specfile = msfile + '.dspec.npz'  
## set the time interval
timerange = '20:21:10~20:21:30'  
## select the spectral window 5
spw = '5'  
## select stokes XX
stokes = 'XX'   
## turn off AIA image plotting, default is True
plotaia = False 
## force to use a circular Gaussian as the restoring beam
restoringbeam = ['20arcsec']  

ql.qlookplot(vis=msfile, specfile=specfile, timerange=timerange, spw=spw, \
stokes=stokes,restoringbeam = restoringbeam, plotaia=plotaia)

Feel free to explore by adjusting the above parameters, e.g. use a different timerange and/or a range of spw. With qlookplot, it is easy to engage solar data from SDO/AIA in the summary plot. Setting plotaia=True in the qlookplot command will download SDO/AIA data at the given time to current directory and add it to the summary plot.

Figure 3: EOVSA single band observing summary
## in SunCASA
plotaia = True
calpha=1.0   ## the alpha blending value
ql.qlookplot(vis=msfile, specfile=specfile, timerange=timerange, spw=spw, \
stokes=stokes,restoringbeam = restoringbeam, plotaia= plotaia, calpha=calpha)

The resulting radio image is a 4-D datacube (in solar X-pos, Y-pos, frequency, and polarization), which is, by default, saved as a fits file msfile + '.outim.image.fits' under your working directory. The name of the output fits file can be specified using the "outfits" parameter. In this example, we combine all selected frequencies (specified in keyword "spw") into one image (i.e., multi-frequency synthesis). Therefore the third axis only has one plane. The fourth axis contains polarization. In this example, however, only the first one is populated ("XX"). Here is the relevant information in the header of the resulting FITS file.

                        
NAXIS   =                    4                                                  
NAXIS1  =                  512/ Nx
NAXIS2  =                  512/ Ny                                             
NAXIS3  =                    1/  number of frequency                                           
NAXIS4  =                    2/  number of polarization

By default, qlookplot produces a full sun radio image (512x512 with a pixel size of 5"). If you know where the radio source is, you can make a partial solar image around the source by specifying the image center, pixel size, and image size.

Figure 4: EOVSA single band observing summary
## in SunCASA
xycen = [375, 45]  ## image center for clean in solar X-Y in arcsec
cell=['2.0arcsec', '2.0arcsec'] ## pixel size
imsize=[128, 128]   ## x and y image size in pixels
fov = [100,100]  ## field of view of the zoomed-in panels in unit of arcsec
ql.qlookplot(vis=msfile, specfile=specfile, timerange=timerange, spw=spw, stokes=stokes,\
restoringbeam=restoringbeam,imsize=imsize,cell=cell,xycen=xycen,fov=fov,calpha=calpha)

Next, we will make images for every single spectral window in this data set (from spw 1 to 30, spw 0 is in the ms, but is not calibrated for this event).

Figure 5: EOVSA multi bands observing summary
## in SunCASA
xycen = [375, 45]  ## image center for clean in solar X-Y in arcsec
cell=['2.0arcsec', '2.0arcsec'] ## pixel size
imsize=[128, 128]   ## x and y image size in pixels
fov = [100,100]  ## field of view of the zoomed-in panels in unit of arcsec
spw = ['{}'.format(s) for s in range(1,31)]
clevels = [0.5, 1.0]  ## the contour levels of the transparent contours of the radio maps.
calpha=0.35  ## now tune down the alpha
ql.qlookplot(vis=msfile, specfile=specfile, timerange=timerange, spw=spw, stokes=stokes, \
            restoringbeam=restoringbeam,imsize=imsize,cell=cell, \
            xycen=xycen,fov=fov,clevels=clevels,calpha=calpha)

The output fits file is saved to msfile + '.outim.image.fits' under your working directory.

SIMPLE  =                    T / conforms to FITS standard                      
BITPIX  =                  -64 / array data type                                
NAXIS   =                    4 / number of array dimensions                     
NAXIS1  =                  128                                                  
NAXIS2  =                  128                                                  
NAXIS3  =                   30                                                  
NAXIS4  =                    2  

Batch-Mode Imaging

This section is for interested users who wish to generate FITS files with full control on all parameters being used for synthesis imaging. We provide one example SunCASA script for generating 30-band spectral imaging maps, and another for iterating over time to produce a time series of these maps.

Producing a 30-band map cube for a given time

An example script can be found at this Github link. If you are on the AWS server Virgo, it is under /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/imaging_example.py. First, download or copy the script to your own working directory and cd to your directory.

cd your_working_directory
cp /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/imaging_example.py ./
Example multi-frequency images at a single time integration

Second (optional), change inputs in the following block in your copy of the "imaging_example.py" script and save the changes. This block has definitions for time range, image center and FOV, antennas used, cell size, number of pixels, etc.

### in "imaging_example.py", look for this block near the beginning ### 
################### USER INPUT GOES IN THIS BLOK ########################
vis = 'IDB20170821201800-202300.4s.slfcaled.ms' # input visibility data
trange = '2017/08/21/20:21:00~2017/08/21/20:21:30' #select the time range for imaging (averaging)
xycen = [380., 50.] # define the center of the output map, in solar X and Y. Unit: arcsec
xran = [280., 480.] # plot range in solar X. Unit: arcsec
yran = [-50., 150.] # plot range in solar Y. Unit: arcsec
antennas = '' # Use all 13 EOVSA 2-m antennas by default. If some antenna is no good, drop it in this selection
npix = 256 # number of pixels in the image
cell = '1arcsec' # pixel scale in arcsec
pol = 'XX' # polarization to image, use XX for now
pbcor = True # correct for primary beam response?
outdir = './images' # Specify where you want to save the output fits files
outimgpre = 'EO' # Something to add to the output image name
#################################################################################

Then, run the script in SunCASA via

CASA <##>: execfile('imaging_example.py')

The output fits images are saved under outdir. The naming conversion is outimgpre + YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS.SSS_S##.fits, where ## is the frequency band index number. See below for an example:

CASA <##>: ls ./images
EO20170821T202115.000_S01.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S07.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S13.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S19.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S25.fits
EO20170821T202115.000_S02.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S08.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S14.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S20.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S26.fits
EO20170821T202115.000_S03.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S09.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S15.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S21.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S27.fits
EO20170821T202115.000_S04.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S10.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S16.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S22.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S28.fits
EO20170821T202115.000_S05.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S11.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S17.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S23.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S29.fits
EO20170821T202115.000_S06.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S12.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S18.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S24.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S30.fits

From this point, you can use your favorite language (SSWIDL users: fits2map.pro would work on these) to read the fits files and plot them. The last block of the example script uses SunPy.map to generate the plot shown on the right.

Producing a time series of 30-band maps (a 4-d cube)

An example script can be found at this Github link. If you are on the AWS server Virgo, it is under /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/imaging_timeseries_example.py. The script enables parallel-processing (based on a customized task "ptclean3" -- do not ask me why we have "3" in the task name). To invoke more CPU processes for parallel-processing, change "nthreads" in the preambles from 1 to the number of threads you wish to use. Caution: This script is very computationally intensive. Please do not try to run this script on the AWS server Virgo, as it has limited resources that everyone share during the tutorial.

cd your_working_directory
cp "pathtoyourscript"/imaging_timeseries_example.py ./

Similar as the previous script, change inputs in the following block of your copy of the "imaging_timeseries_example.py" script and save the changes.

Example multi-frequency images at one time frame in the output movie
### in "imaging_example.py", look for this block near the beginning ### 
################### USER INPUT GOES IN THIS BLOK ########################
vis = 'IDB20170821201800-202300.4s.slfcaled.ms'  # input visibility data
specfile = vis + '.dspec.npz'  ## input dynamic spectrum
nthreads = 1  # Number of processing threads to use
overwrite = True  # whether to overwrite the existed fits files.
trange = ''  # select the time range for imaging, leave it blank for using the entire time interval in the data
twidth = 1  # make one image out of every 2 time integrations
xycen = [380., 50.]  # define the center of the output map, in solar X and Y. Unit: arcsec
xran = [280., 480.]  # plot range in solar X. Unit: arcsec
yran = [-50., 150.]  # plot range in solar Y. Unit: arcsec
antennas = ''  # default is to use all 13 EOVSA 2-m antennas. 
npix = 128  # number of pixels in the image
cell = '2arcsec'  # pixel scale in arcsec
pol = 'XX'  # polarization to image, use XX for now
pbcor = True  # correct for primary beam response?
grid_spacing = 5. * u.deg  # spacing for plotting longitude and latitude grid in degrees
outdir = './image_series/'  # Specify where you want to save the output fits files
imresfile = 'imres.npz'  # File to write summary of the imaging results
outimgpre = 'EO'  # Something to add to the image name
#################################################################################


Then, run the script in SunCASA by

CASA <##>: execfile('imaging_timeseries_example.py')

The output fits images and a summary file imresfile are saved under "outdir" (in this example "./image_timeseries"). The naming convention of output fits images is the same as the previous section. The summary yields the time, frequency, and path to every image.

CASA <#>: imres = np.load(outdir + imresfile)['imres'][0]
CASA <#>: for k in imres.keys(): print(k,imres[k][0])
('EndTime', '2017-08-21T20:18:04.500') ## End time of clean for this particular FITS file
('Freq', '2.9296875') ## Central frequency in GHz
('ImageName', './image_series//EO20170821T201800.500_S01.fits') ## Path to the output FITS file
('BeginTime', '2017-08-21T20:18:00.500') ## Start time of clean for this Particular FITS file
('Succeeded', True) ## whether or not clean was successful

The last block of the example script uses SunPy.map to generate a series of plots and wraps them as a javascript movie.

Spectral Fitting with GSFIT

Here we switch gears and use sswIDL to perform spectral fit based on the resulting FITS files produced from the previous steps.

Prepare sswIDL map cube

First, start sswidl

sswidl

We have prepared sswIDL scripts under /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/ to convert the time-series FITS files to an array of sswIDL map structure of shape (# of frequencies, # of polarizations, # of times). Two scripts are needed for this

  • casa_readfits.pro: read an array of multi-frequency FITS files into FITS header (index) and data
  • casa_fits2map.pro: convert an array of multi-frequency FITS files into an array of sswIDL map structure

Find the fits files

IDL> fitsdir = '/common/data/eovsa_tutorial/image_series/'
IDL> fitsfiles = file_search(fitsdir+'*_ALLBD.fits')
; The resulting fitfiles contains all multi-frequency FITS files under "fitsdir" 
; The following command converts the fits files to an array of map structures. 
; keyword "calcrms" is to calculate rms of the maps in a user-defined "empty" region of the map specified in "rmsxran" and "rmsyran"
IDL> casa_fits2map, fitsfiles, maps, /calcrms, rmsxran=[260., 320.], rmsyran=[-70., 0.]

The resulting maps have all compatible keywords recognized by plot_map.pro. Example of the map keywords

IDL> help,maps,/str
** Structure <491d148>, 29 tags, length=131384, data length=131376, refs=2:
   DATA            DOUBLE    Array[128, 128]
   XC              DOUBLE           378.99123
   YC              DOUBLE           49.005429
   DX              DOUBLE           2.0000000
   DY              DOUBLE           2.0000000
   TIME            STRING    '21-Aug-2017 20:18:00.500'
   ID              STRING    'EOVSA XX 3.413GHz'
   DUR             DOUBLE           4.0000003
   XUNITS          STRING    'arcsec'
   YUNITS          STRING    'arcsec'
   ROLL_ANGLE      DOUBLE           0.0000000
   ROLL_CENTER     DOUBLE    Array[2]
   FREQ            DOUBLE           3.4125694
   FREQUNIT        STRING    'GHz'
   STOKES          STRING    'XX'
   DATAUNIT        STRING    'K'
   BTYPE           STRING    'Brightness Temperature'
   BMAJ            DOUBLE        0.0097377778
   BMIN            DOUBLE        0.0097377778
   BPA             DOUBLE           0.0000000
   RSUN            DOUBLE           948.03949
   L0              FLOAT           0.00000
   B0              DOUBLE           6.9298481
   COMMENT         STRING    'Converted by VLA_FITS2MAP.PRO'
   RMS             DOUBLE           25822.794
   SNR             DOUBLE           82.296054
   RMSUNIT         STRING    'K'
   RMSXRAN         FLOAT     Array[2]
   RMSYRAN         INT       Array[2]

GSFIT GUI Application

The GSFIT GUI application may be launched as follows

IDL> gsfit [,nthreads]

where nthreads is an optional argument that indicates the number of parallel asynchronous threads to be used when performing the fit tasks. By default, GSFIT launches with only one thread, but the user may interactively add or delete threads as needed at the run-time up to the number of CPUs available on the system (Note, if you are working on the AWS server, please use only one thread). After some delay while the interface loads, the GUI below should appear.

A detailed description of the GSFIT functionality is provided in the page linked below.

GSFIT Help

GSFITCP Batch Mode Application

GSFITCP is the command prompt counterpart of the GSFIT GUI microwave spectral fitting application. Once started, GSFITCP is designed to run in unattended mode until all fitting tasks assigned to it are completed and log on the disk in an user-defined *.log file, the content of which may be visualized using the GSFITVIEW GUI application. When run remotely on an Linux/Mac platform, the GSFITCP may be launched on a detached screen, which allows the remote user to logout without stopping the process in which GSFITCP runs.

GSFITCP is launched using the following call:

IDL> gsfitcp, taskfile, nthreads, /start

where taskfile is a path to a file in which a GSFIT task has been previously saved, as explained in the GSFIT Help page, nthreads is an optional argument indicating the number of parallel asynchronous threads to be used, and the optional keyword /start, if set, requests immediate start of the batch processing.

A detailed description of the GSFITCP functionality is provided in the page linked below.

GSFITCP Help

GSFITVIEW GUI Application

The GSFITVIEW GUI application may be launched as follows

IDL> gsfitview [,gsfitmaps]

where the optional gsfitmaps argument is either the filename of an IDL *.sav file containg a GSFIT Parameter Map Cube structure produced by the GSFIT or GSFITCP applications, or an already restored such structure.


A detailed description of the GSFITVIEW functionality is provided in the page linked below.

GSFITVIEW Help

GSFIT Data Format