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
• Image Display Servers
• Graphics Software
• Scripting Languages
• Scientific Libraries
• Miscellaneous Utilities
• Virtual Observatory Tools
• Items removed from Scisoft 8.0

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
  • Astron (November 2011) - Goddard Astron IDL astronomical procedure library - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
  • StarFinder - IDL adaptive optics photometry software
  • JHUAPL Library (Aug2004) - IDL procedure collection from Johns Hopkins
  • ATV - an interactive display tool for IDL
• 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

• SM 2.4.26 (Dec2002) - SuperMongo - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version
• PGPLOT 5.2 (from OS) - Graphics library
• gnuplot 4.6 - Command-line driven interactive function plotting utility - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
• Grace 5.1.23 - 2D WYSIWYG plotting tool
• ggobi 2.1.7 (from OS) - Data visualisation in 3D
• Matplotlib 1.1.0 - Python 2D plotting library - Updated in Scisoft 7.7
• PLplot 5.9.4 - Cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots.

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:
• PyRAF 2.0 - Python replacement for IRAF cl from STScI
• PyFITS 3.1.0 - Python FITS package from STScI
• PyDrizzle 6.3.7 - Drizzling software
• MultiDrizzle 3.3.9 - Automatic image combination drizzling software
• NumPy 1.8.0 - Python package for scientific computing
• 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