MAXIMA Software Overview

MAXIMA software is quite extensive and varied. It is used in nearly all phases of the experiment and in nearly all systems.

Design Software is used to design the MAXIMA experiment.
Testing Software is used to test the MAXIMA instrument.
Flight Planning software is used to design the flight data taking operations.
Flight software is that used aboard the gondola and on the ground during flight.
Processing Software takes the flight data and prepares it for analysis by removing the instrument and cosmic ray signatures and calibrating the data.
Analysis Software is used to analyze the processed data.
Utility Software provides an overview of the software used for characterizing, calibrating, and understanding the experiment and other special purposes.

author George Smoot

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