Scisoft 7.1 - An Astronomical Software Collection

Contents



Data Analysis Systems

  • IRAF 2.14-EXPORT - Updated in Scisoft 7.1
    • 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 2.6.1 - Spectral Radial Velocity package from CfA - Updated in Scisoft 7.1
    • 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 - Updated in Scisoft 7.1
    • ECL - Enhanced CL
  • Eclipse 5.0 - Includes ISAAC, CONICA, WFI, Lua and ADONIS add-ons
  • ESO-MIDAS 08FebPl1.1 - Updated in Scisoft 7.1
  • PyMidas 1.0.5
  • IDL 6.3 - Interactive Data Language from RSI. Commercial package, requires license - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version
  • Gildas (Jul2007a) - Radio astronomy applications from IRAM
  • Difmap 2.4j - Interactive program for radio synthesis imaging from Caltech - Updated in Scisoft 7.1
  • 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 - New in Scisoft 7.1
  • BoA - Bolometer Array Analysis Software - New in Scisoft 7.1

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 - Updated in Scisoft 7.1
  • 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 - Updated in Scisoft 7.1
  • QFitsView 2.0 Rev 97 - FITS file viewer.
  • Gaia 2.8-0 - Graphical Astronomy and Image Analysis Tool.

Graphics Software


Scripting Languages

  • Python 2.4 - 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 gdbm zlib fcntl pwd grp errno select mmap _socket termios _tkinter
    • asciidata 1.1 - Updated in Scisoft 7.1
    • binascii
    • ipython 0.6.6
    • 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
  • STScI_Python 2.6 - STScI Python packages, including the following: - Updated in Scisoft 7.1
  • Java 1.5.0.11 - Java runtime environment and JDK
  • DPUser 2.0 Rev 97 - Interactive language for handling numbers, strings, and matrices

Scientific Libraries


Miscellaneous Utilities

  • wcstools 3.7.2 - World Coordinate System software tools and library from Doug Mink at SAO - Updated in Scisoft 7.1
  • Terapix Software Tools - A Selection: SExtractor 2.5.0, SWarp 2.16, & WeightWatcher 1.7
  • Tiny Tim 6.3 (Jun2004) - 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

Virtual Observatory Tools [see FAQ entry]


Software present in Scisoft VI but NOT in Scisoft VII