[Ifeffit] Athena crash during LCA

[Scott Calvin]

Hi all,

Athena has been crashing for me during one particular linear  
combination analysis, and I'm wondering if any of you have an  
explanation. A project file which demonstrates the problem is  
attached. I am using Athena 0.8.054 with ifeffit 1.2.10 on a MacBook  
Pro using OS 10.5.8.

The behavior can be seen by trying to fit the Data group by using a  
linear combination of Standard 1 and Standard 2 in chi(k). It gets as  
far as "plotting in k-space from group 'Data'...done!' and then hangs,  
with the watch icon remaining indefinitely. This doesn't happen in  
norm(E) or deriv(E) fits, and doesn't happen when Standard 1 is not  
used. But Standard 1 appears to have uncorrupted chi(k) data when  
plotted directly. Standard 1 is from one of the XDAC lines at NSLS, as  
are the standards that work.

I've tried saving Standard 1 and reading it in as a new group, but no  
luck. I've also looked at the data in Standard 1, and I don't see  
anything out of place, such as a place where the energy backs up. I've  
tried starting the chi(k) file with zero values, truncating the end  
values, and changing the background spline to end at the same point  
the data does. And it always hangs at the same point.

Any ideas? I'd like to use this data for a workshop next week!

--Scott Calvin
Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College
Currently on sabbatical at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory

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