| Package |
Description |
Run Command |
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Astronomical Data Analysis Packages
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| AIPS++ |
Astronomical Information Processing System |
aips++ |
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| AIPS |
for calibration, data analysis, image display, plotting, and a variety of ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data |
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| Difmap |
An Interactive Program for Synthesis Imaging |
difmap |
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| Chaser |
Chandra Observation Search |
chaser |
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| CIAO |
Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations
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| Difmap |
An Interactive Program for Synthesis Imaging |
difmap |
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| FIGARO (AAO) |
Figaro is a data reduction system geared towards processing optical and infra-red data. Note: figdisp will only run on 8-bit colour dipslay if you are using a PC running linux change to b-bit colour mode. |
figaro |
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| Gildas |
Grenoble Image and Line Data Analysis Software |
n/a |
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| IRAF |
A general purpose software system for the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. |
mkdir ~/iraf
cd ~/iraf ; mkiraf
(on first use)
cl
(to start iraf shell) |
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| Karma |
A package for visualisation, signal and image processing applications |
karma |
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| lheasoft |
A Unified Release of the FTOOLS and XANADU Software Packages |
lheasoft |
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| MIRIAD |
A radio interferometry data reduction package, alternative to AIPS |
miriad |
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| MOPSIL |
For the reduction of SIMBA data (new version June 2002)
256MB version |
mopsil |
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| MOPSI |
low memory version |
mopsi |
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| Pyraf |
PyRAF is a new command language for IRAF |
pyraf |
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| Skycat |
SkyCat is a tool that combines visualization of images and access to catalogs and archive data for astronomy |
skycat |
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| Simbaread |
This is the software, which converts the raw FITS files into reducable FITS files. |
simbaread |
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| SPA |
SPECTRA or SPA is the data reduction program at the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory for use with single dish spectral line or continuum data |
Not installed.
Superceeded by SPC
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| SPC |
A Spectral Line Reduction Package used for reducing spectral line data from the Parkes and Mopra radiotelescopes. |
spc |
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| Starlink |
A full set of data reduction and analysis tools |
starlink |
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| Spitzer Pride |
Spitzer Space telescope proposal and data analysis tools |
spot, leopard, subscriber |
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| UniPops |
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Available on Solaris machines only (ie Wink, Bat) |
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| Xephem |
Astronomical Software Ephemeris |
xephem |
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| Xspec |
An X-Ray Spectral Fitting Package |
xs |
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Mathematical and Plotting Packages
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| Gnuplot |
AN interactive plotting program |
gnuplot |
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| IDL |
Data Analysis/Visualisation package |
idl |
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| Mathematica |
Not installed |
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| PDL |
PDL turns perl in to a free, array-oriented, numerical language similar to such commerical packages as IDL and MatLab. One can write simple perl expressions to
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perldl |
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| PGPLOT |
A graphics plotting package |
n/a |
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| Supermongo |
A graphics plotting package |
sm |
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| WIP |
An Interactive Graphics Software Package |
wip |
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Gemini Related Tools
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| OT |
The Gemini Observing Tool (OT) is the software used for detailed definition and pre-planning of observations from approved proposals during the Phase II process. |
ot |
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| PIT |
Gemini Phase I Proposal tool can be used for proposal preparation and submission to all of the Gemini partner countries. |
pit |
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Office and Word processing Apps
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| koffice |
KDE Office Suite Package |
koshell |
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| LaTex |
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tex |
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| Open Office |
Recommended Office Suite. Compatible with Microsoft files. |
officesetup
(Run only one to setup)
soffice
(to run from then on)
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| gnumeric |
Spreadsheet Program |
gnumeric |
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| abiword |
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth.
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AbiWord |
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