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Software and sociology in UK astronomy [PDF]
I discuss the remit of Starlink's software strategy groups and a particular item on the agenda of a meeting of the image processing software strategy group held on 26th January 2001: `Why don't people use Starlink software?'. The answer to this question was speculated to be primarily a sociological effect: those people supervising UK astronomy Ph.D ...
Pimbblet, Kevin A.
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Astronomy Software Integration with OpenSpace
This thesis aimed to create a messaging protocol for OpenSpace to interoperate with other astronomy software. The goal was to create a messaging standard that was not language-dependent and could be implemented by any astronomy software. To establish an asynchronous communication between OpenSpace and connected software, the Transmission Control ...
Bihi, Aniisa, Granström, Johanna
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International standards for software structures in astronomy [PDF]
AbstractThe increasing request for astronomical data processing facilities forces the definition of standards for astronomical application software. Separating the application module from the interfaces to the data processing system allows to identify the standard user interaction interface, the standard data storage interface, the standard dedicated ...
M. Pucillo, P. Santin, G. Sedmak
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The eighteenth data release (DR18) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is the first one for SDSS-V, the fifth generation of the survey. SDSS-V comprises three primary scientific programs or “Mappers”: the Milky Way Mapper (MWM), the Black Hole Mapper (
Andrés Almeida +154 more
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GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro) is a collection of programs and libraries for astronomical data analysis. Its main tarballs are hosted on gnu.org, but each version is also archived here on Zenodo.
Akhlaghi, Mohammad (7050926) +1 more
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Korg: A Modern 1D LTE Spectral Synthesis Package
We present Korg , a new package for 1D LTE spectral synthesis of FGK stars, which computes theoretical spectra from the near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared, and implements both plane-parallel and spherical radiative transfer.
Adam J. Wheeler +3 more
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Upgraded Thoth: Software for Data Visualization and Statistics
Thoth is a free desktop/laptop software application with a friendly graphical user interface that facilitates routine data-visualization and statistical-calculation tasks for astronomy and astrophysical research (and other fields where numbers are ...
Russ R. Laher +16 more
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The software architecture to control the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Paper 991303, 15 S.The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is an initiative to build two large arrays of Cherenkov gamma- ray telescopes. CTA will be deployed as two installations, one in the northern and the other in the southern hemisphere ...
Oya, I. +12 more
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SciCodes: Astronomy Research Software and Beyond
The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL ascl.net), started in 1999, is a free open registry of software used in refereed astronomy research. Over the past few years, it has spearheaded an effort to form a consortium of scientific software registries and repositories.
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Software Use in Astronomy: an Informal Survey
Available on Authorea: https://www.authorea.com/users/10533/articles/18046; Interactive visualization: http://eteq.github.io/software_survey_analysis/software_tools_heirarchy_d3vis ...
Ivelina Momcheva, Erik J. Tollerud
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