Scisoft

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Description

Scisoft is a project within ESO to provide a collection of astronomical software utilities in a uniform way at all ESO sites and to make them available to the outside world. The current version, Scisoft 7.2, October 2008, is only available for Fedora Core 6 Linux. The previous major release, Scisoft v6.1 September 2006, was for Fedora Core 3, Scisoft v5 was available for RedHat9 and earlier versions are also available for Solaris 8, Linux Redhat 6.2 and HP-UX 11. In addition a version of Scisoft for Mac OSX has been prepared by Nor Pirzkal and Francesco Pierfederici but it is not an ESO product.

Scisoft 7.2 was built on Fedora Core 6 and depends on Fedora specific packages. It is possible to install Scisoft 7.2 on Scientific Linux 5.0, see this page for more details. If you managed to install an run Scisoft on an other Linux distribution please contact us at scihelp@eso.org and we will update this page.

Please report any problems to scihelp(AT)eso.org.

Download

The Scisoft collection is available in the following ways:

Outside China or India:

In China:

  • Please contact the Chinese Scisoft mirror site for downloads and DVD requests (scisoft(AT)lamost.org).

In India:

  • Please contact the Indian Scisoft mirror site for downloads and DVD requests (voindia(AT)vo.iucaa.ernet.in).

Note that only requests from China or India, to be delivered in the respective countries, are accepted by the mirror sites. We would like to thank Chenzhou Cui of the National Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for his help and enthusiasm for the Chinese mirror and similarly Ajit Kembhavi and Deoyani Nandrekar for setting up the Indian mirror. Randy Thompson and Rick White proposed and set up the US mirror at STScI. In addition Lars Christensen helped with copying the DVDs and setting up the web shop. If none of these options will be possible for you please send email to scihelp(AT)eso.org.

Included Software Packages

Contents

  • Data Analysis Systems
  • Image Display Servers
  • Graphics Software
  • Scripting Languages
  • Scientific Libraries
  • Miscellaneous Utilities
  • VO Tools
  • Software removed from Scisoft VII

Data Analysis Systems

IRAF 2.14-1 - Updated in Scisoft 7.2

  • ctio - Utilities from CTIO
  • gemini 1.9 - Utilities from the Gemini Telescopes
  • gmisc - Miscellaneous utilities for Gemini
  • mxtools (Dec2001) - Utilities from NOAO including QDPHOT
  • guiapps - Graphical applications for IRAF
  • xdimsum (Jan2003) - Enhanced IR data reduction and mosaicing software
  • ifocas (Apr2001) - Enhanced object detection and classification software
  • dimsum 3.0 (Aug2002) - IR data reduction and mosaicing software
  • color - Utilities for creating colour images
  • fitsutil - FITS utilities
  • mscred 4.8 (May 2004) - Mosaic camera CCD reduction tasks from NOAO
  • esowfi 1.3 (Mar2001)
  • eis 1.8 (May2002) - ESO Imaging Survey IRAF tasks (EIS Drizzle etc)
  • rvsao 2.6.5 - Spectral Radial Velocity package from CfA - Updated in Scisoft 7.2
  • nmisc 020618 - IRAF miscellany
  • xccdred - CCD reduction for multi-port chips
  • stecf 1.5 - Utilities from ST-ECF, including polarimetry reduction and spectral restoration packages
  • STSDAS/TABLES 3.8 - HST data analysis and tables systems
  • ECL - Enhanced CL

Eclipse 5.0 - Includes ISAAC, CONICA, WFI, Lua and ADONIS add-ons

  • ESO-MIDAS 08Sep pl1.0 - Updated in Scisoft 7.2
  • PyMidas 1.0.5
  • IDL 6.3 - Interactive Data Language from RSI. Commercial package, requires license - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version
    • Astron (June 2008) - Goddard Astron IDL astronomical procedure library- Updated in Scisoft 7.2
    • StarFinder - IDL adaptive optics photometry software
    • JHUAPL Library (Aug2004) - IDL procedure collection from Johns Hopkins
    • ATV - an interactive display tool for IDL
  • Gildas (Jul2007a) - Radio astronomy applications from IRAM
  • Difmap 2.4j - Interactive program for radio synthesis imaging from Caltech
  • Miriad 3.1 Calibration, mapping, deconvolution and image analysis of interferometric data
  • Karma 1.7 - Toolkit for interprocess communications, authentication, encryption, graphics display, user interface and manipulating the Karma network data structure
  • MiniCRUSH 1.0.1 - A minimalistic version of CRUSH for LABOCA & ASZCA - Updated in Scisoft 7.2
  • BoA - Bolometer Array Analysis Software

Image Display Servers

  • x11iraf 1.3.1 - May 2000 version, including xgterm (but excluding ximtool)
  • SAOImage 1.35.1 - The original, needs 8bit Xserver
  • DS9 5.2 - Latest display server from SAO. Works with 24bit X servers
  • XPA 2.1.7b2 - Messaging system from SAO. Used by DS9.
  • Skycat 3.0.1 - ESO image display tool with catalogue and image server access
  • fv 5.1 - Interactive fits viewer
  • QFitsView 2.0 Rev 400 - FITS file viewer - Updated in Scisoft 7.2
  • Gaia 4.2.2 - Graphical Astronomy and Image Analysis Tool - Updated in Scisoft 7.2

Graphics Software

  • SM 2.4.26 (Dec2002) - SuperMongo - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version
  • PGPLOT 5.2 - Graphics library
  • gnuplot 4.2.3 - Command-line driven interactive function plotting utility - Updated in Scisoft 7.2
  • Grace 5.1.9 - 2D WYSIWYG plotting tool
  • ggobi 2.1.4 - Data visualisation in 3D
  • Matplotlib 0.98.1 - Python 2D plotting library- Updated in Scisoft 7.2

Scripting Languages

Python 2.4 - General purpose, object orientated, extensible scripting language.

  • Numeric 24.2
  • Scientific 2.4.9
  • RV 1.1
  • Imaging (PIL) 1.1.4
  • Pmw 1.2
  • pCFITSIO 0.99.2
  • _sre readline _locale thread gdbm zlib fcntl pwd grp errno select mmap _socket termios _tkinter
  • asciidata 1.1
  • binascii
  • ipython 0.6.6
  • pygtk 2.10.4
  • scipy 0.3.2
  • gnuplotpy 1.7
  • ppgplot 1.3
  • biggles 1.6.4
  • psyco 1.4
  • pygame 1.7.1
  • cStringIO & cPickle
  • wx 2.8.8.1 (wxPython) - New in Scisoft 7.2
  • STScI_Python 2.6 - STScI Python packages, including the following:
    • PyRAF 1.5 (Feb 2008) - Python replacement for IRAF cl
    • numarray 1.5.2 - Enhanced Python numerical package from STScI
    • PyFITS 1.3 - Python FITS package from STScI
    • PyDrizzle 6.1 - Drizzling software
    • MultiDrizzle 3.1.0 - Automatic image combination drizzling software
    • NumPy 1.1.0 - Python package for scientific computing- Updated in Scisoft 7.2
  • Java 1.5.0.11 - Java runtime environment and JDK
  • DPUser 2.0 Rev 400 - Interactive language for handling numbers, strings, and matrices - Updated in Scisoft 7.2

Scientific Libraries

  • GSL 1.9 - The GNU Scientific Library
  • DISLIN 9.1 - Scientific Data Plotting software
  • CFITSIO 3.0.30 - FITS File Subroutine Library
  • LAPACK Release 3.1.1 - Linear Algebra Subroutine Library
  • Atlas 3.6.1 - Another Linear Algebra Library
  • FFTW 3.1.2 - Fast Fourier Transform library
  • plotutils 2.5 - GNU plotting utilities
  • JPype 0.5.2.2 - Java to Python integration
  • Funtools 1.4.0 - "Minimal buy-in" FITS library and utility package

Miscellaneous Utilities

  • wcstools 3.7.2 - World Coordinate System software tools and library from Doug Mink at SAO
  • Terapix Software Tools - A Selection: SExtractor 2.5.0, SWarp 2.17.1, SCAMP 1.4.6-MP & WeightWatcher 1.7 - Updated in Scisoft 7.2 (SCAMP added)
  • Tiny Tim 7.0 (June 2008 - including WFC3) - HST point-spread function simulation software - Updated in Scisoft 7.2
  • Xephem 3.7.2 - Planetarium and ephemeris software
  • dss & dss2 - Digitized Sky Survey image extraction software
  • Cloudy 06.01 - Plasma simulation and spectral synthesis code (no patches applied)
  • HyperZ 1.1 - Photometric Redshift Code
  • Hipparcos Transit Tools - Two small Fortran applications (td2uv and td2gf) for processing transit data
  • Latex style files - A collection of style files for astronomical journals
  • DAOPhot - Stellar Photometry and related packages from Peter Stetson at DAO/HIA, see agreement for redistribution or access to the source code - Updated in Scisoft 7.2 (DAOmaster added)
  • fitsverify - FITS format checker
  • g95 - Fortran 95 compiler
  • fitscut - Image cutout and conversion utility - New in Scisoft 7.2
  • graphviz 2.20.2 - Graph Visualisation Software - New in Scisoft 7.2

Virtual Observatory Tools

  • Aladin 4.0 - Aladin Sky Atlas
  • VOspec 2.5 - tool for handling Virtual Observatory compliant Spectra
  • VOplot 1.4 - VOTable plotting tool
  • Plastic 2006.3.rc3 - PLatform for AStronomical Tool InterConnection
  • Specview 2.14
  • Splat 3.7-0 - Spectral Analysis Tool
  • Stilts 1.3 - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
  • TOPCAT - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
  • VirGO 1.3.1 - Visual Browser for the ESO Science Archive Facility
  • VisIVO - Visualisation Interface to the VO - New in Scisoft 7.2

Software present in Scisoft VI but NOT in Scisoft VII

  • ximtool
  • xgobi

Further Information

The ESO's Scisoft website