Iris How-to Guide

The Iris How-to Guide serves as a roadmap for navigating the Iris SED analysis tool. It provides instructions for downloading, installing, and running the Iris application; describes the individual features and capabilities of Iris; and ties it all together in an example SED analysis session.

Download and Installation

Introduction to Iris

Loading SED Data into Iris
Building and Managing SEDs
Visualizing SED Data
Modeling and Fitting SED Data
Saving SED Data

Iris Usage Example

Analyzing SED Data in Iris

Iris Plugins

The Plugin Manager

The images and associated links below serve to visually aid you in quickly jumping to a particular sub-section of the How-to Guide.

Entry Point

Install and Run Iris	Load Data from File -or- Import from NED	Build and Manage SEDs

Data Visualization

Plot Multi-segment SEDs	Access Metadata and Data Arrays

Modeling and Fitting

Define Model Expressions	Choose Fit Statistic and Method Calculate Model Parameter Confidence Intervals	Add Custom Models

Saving Data

Save SED Data to File	Save a Fitted Model to File