| Package |
Description |
Run
Command |
|
| Astronomical
Data Analysis Packages
|
| AIPS++ |
Astronomical
Information Processing System |
aips++ |
|
| AIPS |
for
calibration, data analysis, image display, plotting, and
a variety of ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data |
|
|
| APT |
Astronomers
Proposal Tool |
apt |
|
| Chaser |
Chandra
Observation Search |
chaser |
|
| CIAO |
Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations
|
|
|
| Difmap |
An
Interactive Program for Synthesis Imaging |
difmap |
|
| 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 |
|
| Gildas |
Grenoble
Image and Line Data Analysis Software |
n/a |
|
| 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) |
|
| Karma |
A
package for visualisation, signal and image processing
applications |
karma |
|
| lheasoft |
A
Unified Release of the FTOOLS and XANADU Software Packages |
lheasoft |
|
| MIRIAD |
A
radio interferometry data reduction package, alternative
to AIPS |
miriad |
|
| MOPSIL |
For
the reduction of SIMBA data (new version June 2002)
256MB version |
mopsil |
|
| MOPSI |
low
memory version |
mopsi |
|
| Pyraf |
PyRAF is a new command language for IRAF
|
pyraf |
|
| Skycat |
SkyCat
is a tool that combines visualization of images and access
to catalogs and archive data for astronomy |
skycat |
|
| Simbaread |
This
is the software, which converts the raw FITS files into
reducable FITS files. |
simbaread |
|
| 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
|
|
| SPC |
A
Spectral Line Reduction Package used for reducing spectral
line data from the Parkes and Mopra radiotelescopes. |
spc |
|
| Starlink |
A
full set of data reduction and analysis tools |
starlink |
|
| Spitzer
Pride |
Spitzer
Space telescope proposal and data analysis tools |
spot,
leopard, subscriber |
|
| UniPops |
|
Available
on Solaris machines only (ie Wink, Bat) |
|
| Xephem |
Astronomical
Software Ephemeris |
xephem |
|
| Xspec |
An
X-Ray Spectral Fitting Package |
xs |
|
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| Mathematical
and Plotting Packages
|
| Gnuplot |
AN
interactive plotting program |
gnuplot |
|
| IDL |
Data
Analysis/Visualisation package
Three
licenses available (To check license usage : lmstat
-a ) |
idl |
|
| Mathematica |
Not
installed |
|
|
| 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
|
perldl |
|
| PGPLOT |
A
graphics plotting package |
n/a |
|
| Supermongo |
A
graphics plotting package |
sm |
|
| WIP |
An
Interactive Graphics Software Package |
wip |
|
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| Gemini
Related Tools
|
| 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 |
|
| 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
|
| koffice |
KDE
Office Suite Package |
koshell |
|
| LaTex |
|
tex |
|
| Open
Office |
Recommended
Office Suite. Compatible with Microsoft files. |
officesetup
(Run only one to setup)
soffice
(to
run from then on)
|
|
| gnumeric |
Spreadsheet
Program |
gnumeric |
|
| abiword |
AbiWord
is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft®
Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports,
memos, and so forth. |
AbiWord |
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