Category Archives: code additions

March and April 2014 code additions

Twenty-six codes were added to the ASCL in March:

ASTERIX: X-ray Data Processing System
BAOlab: Image processing program
CCDPACK: CCD Data Reduction Package
CHIMERA: Core-collapse supernovae simulation code
computePk: Power spectrum computation

disc2vel: Tangential and radial velocity components derivation
GAIA: Graphical Astronomy and Image Analysis Tool
GPU-D: Generating cosmological microlensing magnification maps
GRay: Massive parallel ODE integrator
Inverse Beta: Inverse cumulative density function (CDF) of a Beta distribution

ISAP: ISO Spectral Analysis Package
JAM: Jeans Anisotropic MGE modeling method
KAPPA: Kernel Applications Package
KINEMETRY: Analysis of 2D maps of kinematic moments of LOSVD
Lightcone: Light-cone generating script

MGE_FIT_SECTORS: Multi-Gaussian Expansion fits to galaxy images
MLZ: Machine Learning for photo-Z
pyExtinction: Atmospheric extinction
RMHB: Hierarchical Reverberation Mapping
SLALIB: A Positional Astronomy Library

SOFA: Standards of Fundamental Astronomy
SURF: Submm User Reduction Facility
T(dust) as a function of sSFR
Unified EOS for neutron stars
Viewpoints: Fast interactive linked plotting of large multivariate data sets

YNOGKM: Time-like geodesics in the Kerr-Newmann Spacetime calculations

And seventeen codes were added to the ASCL in April:

AMBIG: Automated Ambiguity-Resolution Code
AST: World Coordinate Systems in Astronomy
CAP_LOESS_1D & CAP_LOESS_2D: Recover mean trends from noisy data
carma_pack: MCMC sampler for Bayesian inference
Comet: Multifunction VOEvent broker

LTS_LINEFIT & LTS_PLANEFIT: LTS fit of lines or planes
macula: Model of rotational modulations of a spotted star
RegPT: Regularized cosmological power spectrum
SAS: Science Analysis System for XMM-Newton observatory
SER: Subpixel Event Repositioning Algorithms

SpecPro: Astronomical spectra viewer and analyzer
Spextool: Spectral EXtraction tool
TORUS: Radiation transport and hydrodynamics code
TTVFast: Transit timing inversion
VictoriaReginaModels: Stellar evolutionary tracks

WFC3UV_GC: WFC3 UVIS geometric-distortion correction
ZDCF: Z-Transformed Discrete Correlation Function

February 2014 code additions

Thirty-five codes were added to the ASCL in February:

Aladin Lite: Lightweight sky atlas for browsers
ANAigm: Analytic model for attenuation by the intergalactic medium
ARTIST: Adaptable Radiative Transfer Innovations for Submillimeter Telescopes
astroplotlib: Astronomical library of plots
athena: Tree code for second-order correlation functions

BAOlab: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations software
BF_dist: Busy Function fitting
CASSIS: Interactive spectrum analyzer
Commander 2: Bayesian CMB component separation and analysis
CPL: Common Pipeline Library

Darth Fader: Galaxy catalog cleaning method for redshift estimation
DexM: Semi-numerical simulations for very large scales
FAMA: Fast Automatic MOOG Analysis
GalSim: Modular galaxy image simulation toolkit
Glue: Linked data visualizations across multiple files

gyrfalcON: N-body code
HALOFIT: Nonlinear distribution of cosmological mass and galaxies
HydraLens: Gravitational lens model generator
KROME: Chemistry package for astrophysical simulations
libsharp: Library for spherical harmonic transforms

MGHalofit: Modified Gravity extension of Halofit
Munipack: General astronomical image processing software
P2SAD: Particle Phase Space Average Density
PyGFit: Python Galaxy Fitter
PyVO: Python access to the Virtual Observatory

PyWiFeS: Wide Field Spectrograph data reduction pipeline
QUICKCV: Cosmic variance calculator
QuickReduce: Data reduction pipeline for the WIYN One Degree Imager
SPLAT-VO: Spectral Analysis Tool for the Virtual Observatory
SPLAT: Spectral Analysis Tool

TARDIS: Temperature And Radiative Diffusion In Supernovae
UVMULTIFIT: Fitting astronomical radio interferometric data
Vissage: ALMA VO Desktop Viewer
wssa_utils: WSSA 12 micron dust map utilities
XNS: Axisymmetric equilibrium configuration of neutron stars

July and August 2013 additions to the ASCL

Twenty codes were added to the ASCL in July, and eighteen in August.

July:
AstroTaverna: Tool for Scientific Workflows in Astronomy
cosmoxi2d: Two-point galaxy correlation function calculation
CTI Correction Code
DustEM: Dust extinction and emission modelling
ETC++: Advanced Exposure-Time Calculations

FieldInf: Field Inflation exact integration routines
im2shape: Bayesian Galaxy Shape Estimation
ITERA: IDL Tool for Emission-line Ratio Analysis
K3Match: Point matching in 3D space
LENSVIEW: Resolved gravitational lens images modeling

MAH: Minimum Atmospheric Height
Monte Python: Monte Carlo code for CLASS in Python
NEST: Noble Element Simulation Technique
Obit: Radio Astronomy Data Handling
orbfit: Orbit fitting software

phoSim: Photon Simulator
PURIFY: Tools for radio-interferometric imaging
Shapelets: Image Modelling
SIMX: Event simulator
SOPT: Sparse OPTimisation

August:
APPSPACK: Asynchronous Parallel Pattern Search
BASIN: Beowulf Analysis Symbolic INterface
Ceph_code: Cepheid light-curves fitting
ChiantiPy: Python package for the CHIANTI atomic database
CReSyPS: Stellar population synthesis code

CRUSH: Comprehensive Reduction Utility for SHARC-2 (and more…)
GYRE: Stellar oscillation code
JHelioviewer: Visualization software for solar physics data
LensEnt2: Maximum-entropy weak lens reconstruction
LOSSCONE: Capture rates of stars by a supermassive black hole

MapCurvature: Map Projections
MoogStokes: Zeeman polarized radiative transfer
RADLite: Raytracer for infrared line spectra
SMILE: Orbital analysis and Schwarzschild modeling of triaxial stellar systems
SPEX: High-resolution cosmic X-ray spectra analysis

SYN++: Standalone SN spectrum synthesis
SYNAPPS: Forward-modeling of supernova spectroscopy data sets
THELI GUI: Optical, near- & mid-infrared imaging data reduction

Also in August, we added one very cool web resource, the NASA Exoplanet Archive.

June 2013 additions to the ASCL

Sixteen codes were added to the ASCL in June:

BEHR: Bayesian Estimation of Hardness Ratios
Bessel: Fast Bessel Function Jn(z) Routine for Large n,z
grmonty: Relativistic radiative transport Monte Carlo code
Harmony: Synchrotron Emission Coefficients
LRG DR7 Likelihood Software

MADCOW: Microwave Anisotropy Dataset Computational softWare
MAPPINGS III: Modelling And Prediction in PhotoIonized Nebulae and Gasdynamical Shocks
Pico: Parameters for the Impatient Cosmologist
PROM4: 1D isothermal and isobaric modeler for solar prominences
PROS: Multi-mission X-ray analysis software system

SAC: Sheffield Advanced Code
STF: Structure Finder
Tapir: A web interface for transit/eclipse observability
VHD: Viscous pseudo-Newtonian accretion
Yaxx: Yet another X-ray extractor

ZEUS-2D: Simulation of fluid dynamical flows

May 2013 additions to the ASCL

Fifteen codes were added to the ASCL in May:

AdaptaHOP: Subclump finder
ESTER: Evolution STEllaire en Rotation
FITDisk: Cataclysmic Variable Accretion Disk Demonstration Tool
GaussFit: Solving least squares and robust estimation problems
GILDAS: Grenoble Image and Line Data Analysis Software

MapCUMBA: Multi-grid map-making algorithm for CMB experiments
Merger Trees: Formation history of dark matter haloes
Non-Gaussian Realisations
PINOCCHIO: PINpointing Orbit-Crossing Collapsed HIerarchical Objects
PkdGRAV2: Parallel fast-multipole cosmological code

Pressure-Entropy SPH: Pressure-entropy smooth-particle hydrodynamics
pynbody: N-Body/SPH analysis for python
TAU: 1D radiative transfer code for transmission spectroscopy of extrasolar planet atmospheres
TPM: Tree-Particle-Mesh code
YNOGK: Calculating null geodesics in the Kerr spacetime

We also added ExoVis to our web resources and tools page.

April 2013 additions to the ASCL

Twenty-one codes were added to the ASCL in April:

Astropy: Community Python library for astronomy
Copter: Cosmological perturbation theory
CosmicEmuLog: Cosmological Power Spectra Emulator
CosmoRec: Cosmological Recombination code
DESPOTIC: Derive the Energetics and SPectra of Optically Thick Interstellar Clouds

Diffusion.f: Diffusion of elements in stars
GALSVM: Automated Morphology Classification
IFrIT: Ionization FRont Interactive Tool
MPgrafic: A parallel MPI version of Grafic-1
ORIGAMI: Structure-finding routine in N-body simulation

PEC: Period Error Calculator
pyCloudy: Tools to manage astronomical Cloudy photoionization code
PyNeb: Analysis of emission lines
Qhull: Quickhull algorithm for computing the convex hull
Sérsic: Exact deprojection of Sérsic surface brightness profiles

SFH: Star Formation History
SZpack: Computation of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signals
TPZ: Trees for Photo-Z
TVD: Total Variation Diminishing code
VOBOZ/ZOBOV: Halo-finding and Void-finding algorithms

Wqed: Lightcurve Analysis Suite

March 2013 additions to the ASCL

Thirty codes were added to the ASCL in March:

2MASS Kit: 2MASS Catalog Server Kit
ACORNS-ADI: Algorithms for Calibration, Optimized Registration and Nulling the Star in Angular Differential Imaging
ATLAS12: Opacity sampling model atmosphere program
BSE: Binary Star Evolution
CADRE: CArma Data REduction pipeline

CosmoHammer: Cosmological parameter estimation with the MCMC Hammer
DPUSER: Interactive language for image analysis
emcee: The MCMC Hammer
Galactus: Modeling and fitting of galaxies from neutral hydrogen (HI) cubes
GaPP: Gaussian Processes in Python

GBTIDL: Reduction and Analysis of GBT Spectral Line Data
Ginga: Flexible FITS viewer
idistort: CMB spectral distortions templates and code
ionFR: Ionospheric Faraday rotation
iSAP: Interactive Sparse Astronomical Data Analysis Packages

MAGIX: Modeling and Analysis Generic Interface for eXternal numerical codes
micrOMEGAs: Calculation of dark matter properties
MOPSIC: Extended Version of MOPSI
pysynphot: Synthetic photometry software package
SMMOL: Spherical Multi-level MOLecular line radiative transfer

SSE: Single Star Evolution
Stellarics: Inverse Compton scattering from stellar heliospheres
Sunrise: Radiation transfer through interstellar dust
SWIFT: A solar system integration software package
TAC-maker: Transit Analytical Curve maker

TGCat: Chandra Transmission Grating Catalog and Archive
TYCHO: Stellar evolution code
UCL_CHEM: time and depth dependent gas-grain chemical model
UCL_PDR: Time dependent photon-dissociation regions model
Xmatch: GPU Enhanced Astronomic Catalog Cross-Matching

February 2013 additions to the ASCL

Seventeen codes were added to the ASCL in February:

ACS: ALMA Common Software
DisPerSE: Discrete Persistent Structures Extractor
EPICS: Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
ESO-MIDAS: General tools for image processing and data reduction
FASTPHOT: A simple and quick IDL PSF-fitting routine

GALA: Stellar atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances
GRID-core: Gravitational Potential Identification of Cores
IAS Stacking Library in IDL
ICORE: Image Co-addition with Optional Resolution Enhancement
ISIS: Interactive Spectral Interpretation System for High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy

MARX: Model of AXAF Response to X-rays
ME(SSY)**2: Monte Carlo Code for Star Cluster Simulations
Minerva: Cylindrical coordinate extension for Athena
NIFTY: A versatile Python library for signal inference
pNbody: A python parallelized N-body reduction toolbox

SYNMAG Photometry: Catalog-level Matched Colors of Extended Sources
XDQSO: Photometic quasar probabilities and redshifts

We also added CSCview: A Graphical User Interface to the Chandra Source Catalog to our web tools page, and pyro: hydro by example — A simple python-based tutorial on computational methods for hydrodynamics to our list of online resources. As of February 28, there were 585 codes in the ASCL.

October 2012 additions

Thirty-one codes were added to the ASCL in October; on October 31, there were 546 codes in the library.

BOOTTRAN: Error Bars for Keplerian Orbital Parameters
CALCLENS: Curved-sky grAvitational Lensing for Cosmological Light conE simulatioNS
Consistent Trees: Gravitationally Consistent Halo Catalogs and Merger Trees for Precision Cosmology
ConvPhot: A profile-matching algorithm for precision photometry
EZ: A Tool For Automatic Redshift Measurement

FLUKA: Fully integrated particle physics Monte Carlo simulation package
GASGANO: Data File Organizer
GOSSIP: SED fitting code
GP2PCF: Brute-force computation of 2-point correlation functions
HAM2D: 2D Shearing Box Model

inf_solv: Kerr inflow solver
McPHAC: McGill Planar Hydrogen Atmosphere Code
ORBADV: ORBital ADVection by interpolation
PAHFIT: Properties of PAH Emission
pPXF: Penalized Pixel-Fitting stellar kinematics extraction

PVS-GRMHD: Conservative GRMHD Primitive Variable Solvers
PyCosmic: Detecting cosmics in CALIFA and other fiber-fed integral-field spectroscopy datasets
QFitsView: FITS file viewer
QYMSYM: A GPU-accelerated hybrid symplectic integrator
Rockstar: Phase-space halo finder

RVLIN: Fitting Keplerian curves to radial velocity data
Sapporo: N-body simulation library for GPUs
SearchCal: The JMMC Evolutive Search Calibrator Tool
SGNAPS: Software for Graphical Navigation, Analysis and Plotting of Spectra
SMART: Spectroscopic Modeling Analysis and Reduction Tool

Specview: 1-D spectral visualization and analysis of astronomical spectrograms
Systemic Console: Advanced analysis of exoplanetary data
TA-DA: A Tool for Astrophysical Data Analysis
Tempo2: Pulsar Timing Package
TRIP: General computer algebra system for celestial mechanics

TwoDSSM: Self-gravitating 2D shearing sheet