Design and Implementation of CIA, the ISOCAM Interactive Analysis System

This paper presents an overview of the Interactive Analysis System for ISOCAM (CIA). With this system ISOCAM data can be analysed for calibration and engineering purposes, the ISOCAM pipeline software validated and refined, and astronomical data processing can be performed. The system is mainly IDL-based but contains fortran, C, and C++ parts for special tasks. It represents an effort of 15 manyears and is comprised of over 1000 IDL and 200 fortran, C, and C++ modules. 1CIA is a joint development by the ESA Astrophysics Division and the ISOCAM Consortium led by the ISOCAM PI, C. Cesarsky, Direction des Sciences de la Matiere, C.E.A., France.