Starlink: Multi-purpose Astronomy Software
Abstract: Starlink has many applications within it to meet a variety of needs; it includes:
- a general astronomical image viewer;
- data reduction tools, including programs for reducing CCD-like data;
- general-purpose data-analysis and visualisation tools;
- image processing, data visualisation, and manipulating NDF components;
- a flexible and powerful library for handling World Coordinate Systems (partly based on the SLALIB library);
- a library of routines intended to make accurate and reliable positional-astronomy applications easier to write; and
- and a Hierarchical Data System that is portable and flexible for storing and retrieving data.
Credit: Various
Site: http://starlink.eao.hawaii.edu/starlink
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1982QJRAS..23..485D
Bibcode: 2011ascl.soft10012V
Preferred citation method: The Starlink software (Currie et al 2014; http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ASPC..485..391C) is currently supported by the East Asian Observatory.
ID: ascl:1110.012