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Scisoft 7.3 - An Astronomical Software collection

** Note - all changes relative to Scisoft 7.2 **

Contents

• Data Analysis Systems
• Image Display Servers
• Graphics Software
• Scripting Languages
• Scientific Libraries
• Miscellaneous Utilities
• Virtual Observatory Tools

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Data Analysis Systems

• IRAF 2.14-1
  • ctio - Utilities from CTIO
  • crutil 1.6 - Cosmic ray utilities from NOAO
  • gemini 1.9 - Utilities from the Gemini Telescopes
  • gmisc - Miscellaneous utilities for Gemini - Updated in Scisoft 7
  • mxtools (Dec2001) - Utilities from NOAO including QDPHOT
  • guiapps - Graphical applications for IRAF
  • xdimsum (Jan2003) - Enhanced IR data reduction and mosaicing software
  • ifocas (Apr2001) - Enhanced object detection and classification software
  • dimsum 3.0 (Aug2002) - IR data reduction and mosaicing software
  • color - Utilities for creating colour images
  • fitsutil - FITS utilities
  • mscred 4.8 (May 2004) - Mosaic camera CCD reduction tasks from NOAO
  • esowfi 1.3 (Mar2001)
  • eis 1.8 (May2002) - ESO Imaging Survey IRAF tasks (EIS Drizzle etc)
  • rvsao 2.6.5 - Spectral Radial Velocity package from CfA
  • nmisc 020618 - IRAF miscellany
  • xccdred - CCD reduction for multi-port chips
  • stecf 1.5 - Utilities from ST-ECF, including polarimetry reduction and spectral restoration packages
  • STSDAS/TABLES 3.8 - HST data analysis and tables systems
  • ECL - Enhanced CL
• Eclipse 5.0 - Includes ISAAC, CONICA, WFI, Lua and ADONIS add-ons
• ESO-MIDAS 08Sep pl1.0
• PyMidas 1.0.5
• IDL 6.3 - Interactive Data Language from RSI. Commercial package, requires license - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version 
  • Astron (June 2008) - Goddard Astron IDL astronomical procedure library
  • StarFinder - IDL adaptive optics photometry software
  • JHUAPL Library (Aug2004) - IDL procedure collection from Johns Hopkins
  • ATV - an interactive display tool for IDL
• Gildas (Jul2007a) - Radio astronomy applications from IRAM
• Difmap 2.4j - Interactive program for radio synthesis imaging from Caltech
• Miriad 3.1 Calibration, mapping, deconvolution and image analysis of interferometric data
• Karma 1.7 - Toolkit for interprocess communications, authentication, encryption, graphics display, user interface and manipulating the Karma network data structure
• MiniCRUSH 1.0 - A minimalistic version of CRUSH for LABOCA & ASZCA
• BoA - Bolometer Array Analysis Software

Image Display Servers

• x11iraf 1.3.1 - May 2000 version, including xgterm (but excluding ximtool)
• SAOImage 1.35.1 - The original, needs 8bit Xserver
• DS9 5.2 - Latest display server from SAO. Works with 24bit X servers
• XPA 2.1.7b2 - Messaging system from SAO. Used by DS9.
• Skycat 3.0.1 - ESO image display tool with catalogue and image server access
• fv 5.1 - Interactive fits viewer
• QFitsView 2.0 Rev 400 - FITS file viewer.
• Gaia 4.2.2 - Graphical Astronomy and Image Analysis Tool.

Graphics Software

• SM 2.4.26 (Dec2002) - SuperMongo - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version
• PGPLOT 5.2 - Graphics library
• gnuplot 4.2.3 - Command-line driven interactive function plotting utility
• Grace 5.1.9 - 2D WYSIWYG plotting tool
• ggobi 2.1.4 - Data visualisation in 3D
• Matplotlib 0.98.5.2 - Python 2D plotting library - Updated in Scisoft 7.3

Scripting Languages

• Python 2.5.4 - General purpose, object orientated, extensible scripting language. - Updated in Scisoft 7.3
  • Numeric 24.2
  • Scientific 2.4.9
  • RV 1.1
  • Imaging (PIL) 1.1.4
  • Pmw 1.2
  • pCFITSIO 0.99.2
  • _sre readline _locale thread gdbm zlib fcntl pwd grp errno select mmap _socket termios _tkinter
  • asciidata 1.1
  • binascii
  • ipython 0.9.1 - Updated in Scisoft 7.3
  • pygtk 2.10.4
  • scipy 0.3.2
  • gnuplotpy 1.7
  • ppgplot 1.3
  • biggles 1.6.4
  • psyco 1.4
  • pygame 1.7.1
  • cStringIO & cPickle
  • wx 2.8.8.1 (wxPython)
  • healpy 0.9.2   -   New in Scisoft 7.3

   

• STScI_Python 2.7 - STScI Python packages, including the following:- Updated in Scisoft 7.3
  • PyRAF 1.6.1 - Python replacement for IRAF cl
  • numarray 1.5.2 - Enhanced Python numerical package from STScI
  • PyFITS 1.4.1 - Python FITS package from STScI - Updated in Scisoft 7.3
  • PyDrizzle 6.3.0 - Drizzling software - Updated in Scisoft 7.3
  • MultiDrizzle 3.2.1 - Automatic image combination drizzling software - Updated in Scisoft 7.3
  • NumPy 1.1.0 - Python package for scientific computing
• Java 1.5.0.11 - Java runtime environment and JDK
• DPUser 2.0 Rev 400 - Interactive language for handling numbers, strings, and matrices

Scientific Libraries

• GSL 1.9 - The GNU Scientific Library
• DISLIN 9.1 - Scientific Data Plotting software
• CFITSIO 3.10 - FITS File Subroutine Library - Updated in Scisoft 7.3
• LAPACK Release 3.1.1 - Linear Algebra Subroutine Library
• Atlas 3.6.1 - Another Linear Algebra Library
• FFTW 3.1.2 - Fast Fourier Transform library
• plotutils 2.5 - GNU plotting utilities
• JPype 0.5.2.2 - Java to Python integration
• Funtools 1.4.0 - "Minimal buy-in" FITS library and utility package

Miscellaneous Utilities

• wcstools 3.7.2 - World Coordinate System software tools and library from Doug Mink at SAO
• Terapix Software Tools - A Selection: SExtractor 2.5.0, SWarp 2.16, & WeightWatcher 1.7
• Tiny Tim 7.0 (June 2008 - including WFC3) - HST point-spread function simulation software
• Xephem 3.7.2 - Planetarium and ephemeris software
• dss & dss2 - Digitized Sky Survey image extraction software
• Cloudy 06.01 - Plasma simulation and spectral synthesis code (no patches applied)
• HyperZ 1.1 - Photometric Redshift Code
• Hipparcos Transit Tools - Two small Fortran applications (td2uv and td2gf) for processing transit data
• Latex style files - A collection of style files for astronomical journals
• DAOPhot - Stellar Photometry and related packages from Peter Stetson at DAO/HIA, see agreement for redistribution or access to the source code
• fitsverify - FITS format checker
• g95 - Fortran 95 compiler
• fitscut - Image cutout and conversion utility
• graphviz 2.20.2 - Graph Visualisation Software
• fpack and funpack 1.1 - FITS file compression utilities  -   New in Scisoft 7.3

Virtual Observatory Tools

• Aladin 4.0 - Aladin Sky Atlas
• VOspec 2.5 - tool for handling Virtual Observatory compliant Spectra
• VOplot 1.4 - VOTable plotting tool
• Plastic 2006.3.rc3 - PLatform for AStronomical Tool InterConnection
• Specview 2.14
• Splat 3.7-0 - Spectral Analysis Tool
• Stilts 1.3 - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
• TOPCAT - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
• VirGO 1.3.1 - Visual Browser for the ESO Science Archive Facility
• VisIVO - Visualisation Interface to the VO

Last Update: 29.01.09