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Supported Data Analysis Packages |
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| AIPS | Astronomical Image Processing System, produced by NRAO. |
| AIPS++ (weekly) | The AIPS++ development system, updated weekly. |
| CASAcore | Common Astronomy Software Applications core library. |
| ASAP | The ATNF Spectral Analysis Package. |
| ATELIB | Australia Telescope Ephemeris computation, subroutine library. |
| Duchamp | Advanced source finding tool, particularly suited to 3-d data. |
| IDL | Data Analysis/Visualisation package available on ATHENA by typing 'idl'. Help for astronomers. |
| Karma | A package for visualisation, signal and image processing applications. |
| livedata/gridzilla | Multibeam single-dish data reduction system for bandpass calibration and gridding (includes rp2sdfits). |
| Mathematica | Mathematical Package/environment available on dylan. |
| MIRIAD | A radio interferometry data reduction package, alternative to AIPS. |
| SPC | Spectral Line Reduction package. |
| WCSLIB | C implementation of the FITS World Coordinate System (WCS) convention. |
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Installed, but Unsupported Data Analysis Packages |
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| Pulsar group software |
Tempo2 - pulsar timing software. PSRCat - ATNF pulsar catalogue software. |
| difmap | Synthesis imaging software from Caltech. |
| DRAO | Synthesis imaging software from Canada's Dominion Radio Astronomy Observatory. |
| FTOOLS | FITS file manipulation Tools, from NASA's High Energy Astrophyics Science Archive Research Center. |
| Gildas | Grenoble Image and Line Data Analysis Software - gag, class etc ... |
| GIPSY | Groningen Image Processing System, from the Kapteyn Institute, Dept of Astronomy |
| IRAF | Image Reduction and Analysis Facility. |
| MIDAS | Munich Image Data Analysis System |
| UniPOPS | A spectral reduction package used with Parkes and Mopra data. |
| Visualisation Software | Software for aiding visualisation of multidimensional data. |
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Plotting and Data Formats |
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| FITS | A popular astronomical data format. |
| RPFITS | Modified version of FITS in which ATNF data is initially written. |
| PGPLOT | A graphics plotting package. |
| SuperMongo (SM) | A graphics plotting package. A tutorial is also available. |
| Tidy | Check your web pages' HTML syntax and accessibility level. |
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Compilers and Development Environments |
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| Solaris-2 Workshop | Solaris-2 Workshop and Compiler Documentation |
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Interactive Web Tools |
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| Live! VRI | The Virtual Radio Interferometer; includes UV-coverage, fourier transforms, and more! Let's you simulate various "what-if" scenarios in radio interferometry. |
| Coord. | Calculate Rise and Set times of Sources |
| Planets. | Position of the planets and moon |
| Radial Velocities. | Calculates the radial velocity components of Earth, Sun etc. |
| InterSat | Plots positions of interfering satelites from any site. |
| Tools from HEASARC | HEASARC tools include a coordinate converter which accepts source names as well as coordinates. |
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Telescope Control Software |
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| ATOMS | Australia Telescope Observatory Management System. |
| TCS | Telescope Control System. |
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RFI Characterisation at the ATNF |
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| INTER | INTER is an interactive interference characterization program. A description and user manual are available here. |
| RFI over Australia | Animated gifs of flux densities over Australia in bands from 100MHz to 10GHz with transhorizon effects. |