---
name: "hephaestus"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "horae"
version: "071~svn537+ds1-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hephaestus"
---

# hephaestus(1)

a periodic table for the spectroscopist

## NAME

hephaestus - a periodic table for the spectroscopist

## SYNOPSIS

**hephaestus**  file*...*

## DESCRIPTION

This manpage documents briefly the  **hephaestus** program, a souped up periodic table for the x-ray absorption spectroscopist. It provides a number of utilities involving tables of absorption coefficients and other chemical data.\
 This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

## OPTIONS

This program requires no options.

## SEE ALSO

This program is part of the horae XAS analysis suite which can be obtained at \
 http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Carlo Segre \<segre@iit.edu\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).