NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    + View the NASA Portal
Search JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Home Earth Solar System Stars & Galaxies Technology
Introduction Background Software Links


number_of_alms


This function returns the number of alm values stored in each FITS extension in a FITS file containing alm


Location in HEALPix directory tree: src/f90/mod/fitstools.f90


FORMAT

var=number_of_alms( filename[, extnum] )


ARGUMENTS

name & dimensionality kind in/out description
       
filename(LEN=filenamelen) CHR IN filename of the FITS-file containing alm.
extnum I4B OUT number of extensions in the file


EXAMPLE:

print*,number_of_alms('alms.fits')

Prints the number of alm stored in each extension of the file 'alms.fits'


MODULES & ROUTINES

This section lists the modules and routines used by number_of_alms.

fitstools
module, containing:
printerror
routine for printing FITS error messages.
cfitsio
library for FITS file handling.

RELATED ROUTINES

This section lists the routines related to number_of_alms


fits2alms, read_conbintab
routines that read alm values from FITS files.

Eric Hivon 2010-06-18
Privacy / Copyright
FIRST GOV Contact: NASA Home Page Site Manager:
Webmaster:

CL 03-2650