Scisoft 7.4 - An Astronomical Software Collection

** Note - all changes relative to Scisoft 7.3 **

Contents



Data Analysis Systems

  • IRAF 2.14-1
    • ctio - Utilities from CTIO
    • gemini 1.9 - Utilities from the Gemini Telescopes
    • gmisc - Miscellaneous utilities for Gemini
    • 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 3.9 - 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 7.1 - Interactive Data Language from RSI. Commercial package, requires license - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version - Updated in Scisoft 7.4
  • Gildas (May09d) - Radio astronomy applications from IRAM - Updated in Scisoft 7.4
  • 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 1.0.1 - 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 5.3 - Interactive fits viewer - Updated in Scisoft 7.4
  • QFitsView 2.0 Rev 400 - FITS file viewer
  • Gaia 4.2.2 - Graphical Astronomy and Image Analysis Tool

Graphics Software


Scripting Languages

  • Python 2.5.4 - General purpose, object orientated, extensible scripting language
    • 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 zlib fcntl pwd grp errno select mmap _socket termios _tkinter
    • asciidata 1.1
    • binascii
    • ipython 0.9.1
    • scipy 0.7.1- Updated in Scisoft 7.4
    • Gnuplot 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
  • STScI_Python 2.7 - STScI Python packages, including the following:
  • 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


Miscellaneous Utilities


Virtual Observatory Tools [see FAQ entry]