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Software Packages

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Name Responsible Entity Version Last Update
XSPEC: X-ray spectral Analysis software HEASARC 12.8.0h 02/20/2013
APT: Astronomers Proposal Tool STScI 21.0.1 02/15/2013
IDL Astronomical Users Library ASD/GSFC 15 Feb 2013 02/15/2013
PIMMS: Portable, Interactive Multi-Mission Simulator HEASARC 4.6b 01/25/2013
HEAsoft: Multi-Mission High Energy Analysis software HEASARC 6.13 12/27/2012
CIAO: Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (Release) CXC 4.5 12/14/2012
CPL: The Common Pipeline Library ESO 6.2 11/23/2012
ACIS_EXTRACT: IDL-based ACIS analysis package PSU 2012nov1 11/01/2012
TARA: Tools for ACIS Review & Analysis PSU 2012nov1 11/01/2012
SAOImage ds9: FITS image viewer and analyzer SAO/HEASARC 7.1 10/13/2012
WCSLIB: World Coordinate System software library Calabretta 0.1 10/04/2012
OSA: INTEGRAL Off-Line Scientific Analysis Software ISDC 10.0 09/25/2012
IDL Astronomical Users Library ASD/GSFC 21 Sep 2012 09/21/2012
STARLINK Software Collection JAC Kapuahi 09/17/2012
CFITSIO: FITS file access subroutine library HEASARC 3.31 07/18/2012
PINTofALE: Package for Interactive Analysis of Line Emission Drake & Kashyap/CXC 2.951 07/16/2012
Aladin: An interactive software sky atlas CDS; ULP/CNRS 7.5 07/01/2012
GASGANO: A Data File Organiser from ESO ESO 2.4.3 06/11/2012
SAS: XMM-Newton Science Analysis Software XMM-SOC 12.0.0 05/30/2012
SPLASH: visualisation tool for output from (astrophysical) simulations D. Price/Monash 2.1.0 05/16/2012
SAE: Science Analysis Environment for Fermi FSSC v9r27p1 04/18/2012
MOPEX: MOsaicker and Point source EXtractor (Spitzer) SSC 18.5.0 03/22/2012
SCISOFT: An Astronomical Software Collection from ESO ESO 7.7 03/01/2012
MIDAS: Munich Image Data Analysis System ESO 12Febpl1.0 02/06/2012
STScI Python: includes PyRAF, PyFITS, Numdisplay, MultiDrizzle for HST STScI 2.12 08/27/2011
STSDAS: Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System STScI 3.14 Patch 1 08/23/2011
IRAF: Image Reduction and Analysis Facility NOAO 2.15.1a 02/21/2011
CASA: Common Astronomy Software Applications package NRAO 3.1.0 12/10/2010
AIPS: Astronomical Image Processing System NRAO 31DEC11 12/02/2010
VISIT: Parallel Visualization and Graphical Analysis Tool LLNL 2.1.1 11/01/2010
GALPROP: Galactic Cosmic Ray Propagation Stanford 54.0.572 10/21/2010
PANDORA: Programs for AstroNomical Data Organization Reduction and Analysis IASF 3.1 10/01/2010
browse_extract.pl: command-line query of HEASARC databases HEASARC 2.1a 09/20/2010
VLT Instrument Pipelines: Data reduction for the most commonly used VLT/VLTI instrument modes ESO 14 Sep 2010 09/14/2010
Sherpa: Modeling and Fitting for CIAO CXC 2 07/19/2010
XIMAGE: Image Analysis Software HEASARC 4.5.1 03/29/2010
GSL: GNU Scientific Library Free Software Foundation 1.14 03/11/2010
SPEX: SPEctral X-ray and UV modeling, analysis and fitting (development) Kaastra/SRON 2.02.02 03/01/2010
ASTROGRID VO DESKTOP: Virtual Observatory Software for Astronomers UK VOP 1.3.2 02/10/2010
GAIA AND SKYCAT: Graphic Astronomy and Image Analysis Tool ESO 4.4-0 01/20/2010
XSTAR: physical conditions and emission spectra of photoionized gases. Kallman/HEASARC 2.2 11/01/2009
CHIANTI: atomic database for X-ray plasma spectral modeling NRL, RAL and others 6.0.1 10/01/2009
WMAP Software: Analyze Data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe LAMBDA 3.0 10/01/2009
CCfits: object oriented interface to cfitsio HEASARC 2.2 09/09/2009
XRONOS: Timing Analysis Software HEASARC 5.22 08/21/2009
UKIRT-OT: Observing tool from the JACH JAC 31 Jul 2009 07/31/2009
fv: Fits File Viewer HEASARC 5.3 07/16/2009
SPEX: SPEctral X-ray and UV modeling, analysis and fitting Kaastra/SRON 2.01.05 06/01/2009
GRACE: A 2D plotting tool Weizmann 5.1.22 05/21/2008
ISIS: Interactive Spectral Interpretation System CXC 1.4.9-54 03/10/2009
browse_extract_wget.pl: command-line query of HEASARC databases, uses wget HEASARC 2.2 07/31/2008
WINDOW TO THE STARS: Graphical interface to the popular TWIN single/binary stellar evolution code Izzard/Bonn 0.15pre8 02/10/2008
SPOT/LEOPARD: plan Spitzer observations, access Spitzer archive SSC 18.0.1 06/18/2008
TEMPO2: plan Spitzer observations, access Spitzer archive ATNF 1.11 01/17/2008
P2PP: ESO Phase II Proposal Preparation ESO 2.13.1 11/13/2007
W3Browse: Astrophysics Observation Database and Archive browser HEASARC 8.4 10/09/2007
PROFIT: Visualize and Model Spectra Smith/HEASARC 2.0.0 08/07/2007
TLUSTY: A user-oriented package for modelling stellar atmospheres and accretion disks and for stellar spectroscopic diagnostics Hubeny+Lanz 202 10/19/2006
SYNSPEC: A user-oriented package for modeling stellar atmospheres and for stellar spectroscopic diagnostics Hubeny+Lanz 4.3 10/05/2005
ECLIPSE: ESO C Library for an Image Processing Software Environment ESO 5.0 09/23/2005
XSPEC 11: Old-School X-ray spectral analysis software HEASARC 11.3.2 04/13/2005
STARVIEW: Setup a telescope and control from a web browser NWACC 0.1 12/17/2004
SEXTRACTOR: Builds catalogue of objects from an astronomical image LANL 2.3.1 04/09/2002
EXSAS: Extended X-ray Scientific Analysis System for ROSAT MPE 01APR_EXP 04/01/2001
PROS: Post-Reduction Off-line Software for X-ray data analysis CfA 2.5_p1 03/01/1998


Associated Data

Name Responsible Entity Version Posted Latest Update Comments
CALDB: Calibration Data HEASARC Varies by mission 01/20/2013 01/20/2013 Suzaku XIS and Swift UVOTA
Chandra CALDB CXC 4.5.5.1 01/09/2013 01/08/2013 for use with CIAO 4.3 and higher
ATOMDB: atomic database for X-ray plasma spectral modeling CXC 2.0.2 02/24/2012 02/23/2012 A bug with the ionization balance data has been fixed
CCF: Current Calibration File for XMM-Newton XMM SOC Varies by instrument 06/17/2010 06/17/2010 XMM-CCF-REL-266 & XMM-CCF-REL-265
Chandra CALDB3 CXC 3.5.5 11/24/2009 09/18/2009 for use with Ciao 3.4 only

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Last modified Tuesday, 09-Nov-2010 14:32:21 EST