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:
- 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
- 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
- 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:
-
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: