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