Changes between Version 52 and Version 53 of Astronomical Tools/Software

Timestamp:

04/17/06 16:02:10 (20 years ago)

Author:

cdelarcuz

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Astronomical Tools/Software

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 [http://www.starlink.ac.uk/iraf/web IRAF] is a heterogeneous collection of routines and packages for all sorts of tasks, 
 but it is first of all a data reduction environment, 
-for which their is extensive [http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/web/docs/recommend.html on-line documentation.] 
+for which there is extensive [http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/web/docs/recommend.html on-line documentation.] 
 
 === PYRAF ===
@@ -26 +26 @@
 
 === FFTW ===
-[http://www.fftw.org/ FFTW] is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data (as well as of even/odd data, i.e. the discrete cosine/sine transforms or DCT/DST). 
+[http://www.fftw.org/ FFTW] is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete 
+Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of
+both real and complex data (as well as of even/odd data, i.e. the discrete cosine/sine transforms or DCT/DST). 
 The FFTW package was developed at MIT by Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson.
 Our workstation have version 3 installed.
@@ -38 +40 @@
 unified release of the FTOOLS and XANADU Software Packages
 
-XANADU High-level, multi-mission tasks for X-ray astronomical spectral, timing, and imaging data analysis FTOOLS General and mission-specific tools to manipulate FITS files FITSIO Core library responsible for reading and writing FITS files (distributed with FTOOLS) fv General FITS file browser/editor/plotter with a graphical user interface (distributed with FTOOLS) XSTAR Tool for calculating the physical conditions and emission spectra of photoionized gases Hera You may interactively run the Xanadu and FTOOLS software on the Hera server machines at the HEASARC to analyze any of the data files in the Browse archive. 
+XANADU High-level, multi-mission tasks for X-ray astronomical spectral, timing, and imaging data analysis FTOOLS General and mission-specific tools to manipulate FITS files FITSIO Core library responsible for reading and writing FITS files (distributed with FTOOLS) fv General FITS file browser/editor/plotter with a graphical user interface (distributed with FTOOLS) XSTAR Tool for calculating the physical conditions and emission spectra of photoionized gases.
 The current version of HEAsoft is 6.0.4 (November 28 2005)
   
@@ -64 +66 @@
 [http://idlwave.org/ IDLWAVE]:
 This package has been installed as part of Emacs to enable it to understand 
-IDL syntax, which is very useful when writing IDL scripts. A number of lines 
-should be added to your ~/.emacs file, and IDLWAVE online information which can 
-be viewed with `M-x idlwave-info', or follow the Menu entry in the IDLWAVE menu. 
+IDL syntax, which is very useful when writing IDL scripts. 
+ 
 IDLWAVE also enables running an IDL shell within emacs - type:
 
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 === KARMA ===
 
-[http://www.atnf.csiro.au/computing/software/karma/ KARMA] is a toolkit for interprocess communications, authentication, encryption, graphics display, user interface and manipulating the Karma network data structure. It contains KarmaLib (the structured libraries and API) and a large number of modules (applications) to perform many standard tasks. A suite of visualisation tools are distributed with the library. 
+[http://www.atnf.csiro.au/computing/software/karma/ KARMA] is a toolkit for interprocess 
+communications, authentication, encryption, graphics display, user interface and 
+manipulating the Karma network data structure. 
+It contains KarmaLib (the structured libraries and API) and a large number of modules (applications) 
+to perform many standard tasks. A suite of visualisation tools are distributed with the library. 
 
 === LApack ===