Scisoft 8.0 - An Astronomical Software Collection (Test 64-bit version, March 2014)

Contents

Note that the contents of this, the first 64-bit version of Scisoft, were decided following a questionnaire. Some rarely used items have been removed, these are listed in the table at the bottom.



Data Analysis Systems

  • IRAF 2.16 - Updated in Scisoft 8
    • ctio - Utilities from CTIO
    • mxtools (Dec2001) - Utilities from NOAO including QDPHOT
    • guiapps - Graphical applications for IRAF
    • xdimsum (Jan2003) - Enhanced IR data reduction and mosaicing software
    • color - Utilities for creating colour images
    • fitsutil - FITS utilities
    • mscred - Mosaic camera CCD reduction tasks from NOAO
    • esowfi 1.3 (Mar2001)
    • rvsao 2.8.1 - Spectral Radial Velocity package from CfAi - Updated in Scisoft 8.0
    • stecf 2.0 beta - Utilities from ST-ECF, including polarimetry reduction and spectral restoration packages - Updated in Scisoft 7.6
    • STSDAS/TABLES 3.16 - HST data analysis and tables systems - Updated in Scisoft 8.0
    • ECL - Enhanced CL
  • Eclipse 5.0 - Includes ISAAC, CONICA, WFI, Lua and ADONIS add-ons
  • ESO-MIDAS 13Sep pl1.1 - Updated in Scisoft 8.0
  • PyMidas 1.0.5
  • IDL 8.2.3 - Interactive Data Language from RSI. Commercial package, requires license - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version- Updated in Scisoft 8.0
  • Gildas (Apr11h) - Radio astronomy applications from IRAM - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • Miriad 3.1a Calibration, mapping, deconvolution and image analysis of interferometric data - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • Karma 1.7 - Toolkit for interprocess communications, authentication, encryption, graphics display, user interface and manipulating the Karma network data structure
  • CRUSH 2.15-1 - Data Reduction and Imaging for Bolometer Array - Updated in Scisoft 8.0
  • CASA 4.2.0 - Common Astronomy Software Application - Updated in Scisoft 8.0
  • THELI 2.8.3 - A pipeline for astronomical image data reduction - New in Scisoft 7.7
  • Difmap 2.4l - Interactive program for radio synthesis imaging from Caltech - Updated in Scisoft 7.7

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 7.1 - Latest display server from SAO. Works with 24bit X servers - Updated in Scisoft 8.0
  • XPA 2.1.13 - Messaging system from SAO. Used by DS9. - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • Skycat 3.1.2 - ESO image display tool with catalogue and image server access - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • fv 5.3
  • QFitsView 3.1 - FITS file viewer - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • Gaia 4.4.4 - Graphical Astronomy and Image Analysis Tool

Graphics Software


Scripting Languages

  • Python 2.7.5 (from OS, not Scisoft!) - General purpose, object orientated, extensible scripting language
    • Numeric 24.2
    • Scientific 2.8
    • Imaging (PIL) 1.1.7
    • Pmw 1.3.2
    • _sre readline _locale thread zlib fcntl pwd grp errno select mmap _socket termios _tkinter
    • asciidata 1.1.1
    • binascii
    • ipython 0.11
    • scipy 0.12.1
    • Gnuplot 1.8
    • ppgplot 1.3
    • biggles 1.6.6
    • pygame 1.9.1
    • cStringIO & cPickle
    • wx 2.8.12.1 (wxPython)
  • STScI_Python 2.12 - Updated in Scisoft 7.7 - STScI Python packages, including the following:
  • Java 1.7.0_45 (from OS, not Scisoft) - Java runtime environment and JDK
  • DPUser 3.0 - Interactive language for handling numbers, strings, and matrices - Updated in Scisoft 7.7

Scientific Libraries

  • GSL 1.15 - The GNU Scientific Library - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • DISLIN 9.1 - Scientific Data Plotting software
  • CFITSIO 3.28 - FITS File Subroutine Library - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • LAPACK Release 3.4.0 - Linear Algebra Subroutine Library - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • Atlas 3.8.4 - Another Linear Algebra Library - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • FFTW 3.3 - Fast Fourier Transform library - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • plotutils 2.6 - GNU plotting utilities - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • JPype 0.5.2.2 - Java to Python integration
  • Funtools 1.4.0 - "Minimal buy-in" FITS library and utility package

Miscellaneous Utilities

  • wcstools 3.8.4 - World Coordinate System software tools and library from Doug Mink at SAO - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • Astromatic Software Tools SExtractor 2.8.6, SWarp 2.19.1, SCAMP 1.4.6-MP, EyE 1.4.1, MissFits 2.4.0, STIFF 2.1.3, Stuff 1.19 & WeightWatcher 1.8.7 - Updated in Scisoft 8.0
  • Tiny Tim 7.5 - HST point-spread function simulation software - Updated in Scisoft 8.0
  • Xephem 3.7.6 - Planetarium and ephemeris software- Updated in Scisoft 8.0
  • dss & dss2 - Digitized Sky Survey image extraction software
  • DAOPhot - Stellar Photometry and related packages from Peter Stetson at DAO/HIA, see agreement for redistribution or access to the source code
  • fitsverify 4.16 - FITS format checker - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • fitscut - Image cutout and conversion utility
  • fpack and funpack 1.6.1 - FITS file compression utilities - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • Cloudy c10.00 - Plasma simulation and spectral synthesis code (no patches applied) - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • HyperZ 1.1 - Photometric Redshift Code
  • graphviz 2.28.0 - Graphical Visualisation Software

Virtual Observatory Tools [see FAQ entry]

  • Aladin - Aladin Sky Atlas
  • VOspec - tool for handling Virtual Observatory compliant Spectra
  • VOplot - VOTable plotting tool
  • Plastic - PLatform for AStronomical Tool InterConnection
  • Specview
  • Splat - Spectral Analysis Tool
  • Stilts - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
  • TOPCAT - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
  • VirGO - Visual Browser for the ESO Science Archive Facility

The following items were removed from Scisoft 8.0, or could not be installed

  • IRAF/gemini
  • IRAF/gmisc
  • IRAF/dimsum
  • IRAF/nmisc
  • IRAF/xccdred
  • BoA
  • Python/pcfitsio
  • Python/healpy
  • STScI_Python/numarray
  • VOtools/VisIVO