Category Archives: code additions

November 2014 additions to the ASCL

Twenty-seven codes were added in November:

Anmap: Image and data analysis
BKGE: Fermi-LAT Background Estimator
CGS3DR: UKIRT CGS3 data reduction software
ECCSAMPLES: Bayesian Priors for Orbital Eccentricity
Flicker: Mean stellar densities from flicker

galpy: Galactic dynamics package
GPI Pipeline: Gemini Planet Imager Data Pipeline
HOPE: Just-in-time Python compiler for astrophysical computations
iDealCam: Interactive Data Reduction and Analysis for CanariCam
JCMT COADD: UKT14 continuum and photometry data reduction

NAFE: Noise Adaptive Fuzzy Equalization
NDF: Extensible N-dimensional Data Format Library
NEAT: Nebular Empirical Analysis Tool
OPERA: Open-source Pipeline for Espadons Reduction and Analysis
POSTMORTEM: Visibility data reduction and map making package

pyGadgetReader: GADGET snapshot reader for python
PyMGC3: Finding stellar streams in the Galactic Halo using a family of Great Circle Cell counts methods
pysovo: A library for implementing alerts triggered by VOEvents
Raga: Monte Carlo simulations of gravitational dynamics of non-spherical stellar systems
RC3 mosaicking pipeline: Creating mosaics for the RC3 Catalogue

segueSelect: SDSS/SEGUE selection function modelling
sic: Sparse Inpainting Code
SPOTROD: Semi-analytic model for transits of spotted stars
SPT Lensing Likelihood: South Pole Telescope CMB lensing likelihood code
Starlink Figaro: Starlink version of the Figaro data reduction software package

util_2comp: Planck-based two-component dust model utilities
voevent-parse: Parse, manipulate, and generate VOEvent XML packets

September 2014 additions to the ASCL

Thirteen codes were added to the ASCL in September:

CHLOE: A tool for automatic detection of peculiar galaxies
CosmoSIS: Cosmological parameter estimation
IM3SHAPE: Maximum likelihood galaxy shear measurement code for cosmic gravitational lensing
IFSFIT: Spectral Fitting for Integral Field Spectrographs
IFSRED: Data Reduction for Integral Field Spectrographs

iSpec: Stellar atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances
LANL*: Radiation belt drift shell modeling
mixT: single-temperature fit for a multi-component thermal plasma
Nahoon: Time-dependent gas-phase chemical model
ORBS: A reduction software for SITELLE and SpiOMM data

rmfit: Forward-folding spectral analysis software
Slim: Numerical data compression for scientific data sets
Tsyganenko Geomagnetic Field Models

August 2014 additions to the ASCL

Twenty-three codes were added to the ASCL in August:

APS: Active Parameter Searching
bamr: Bayesian analysis of mass and radius observations
CosmoPhotoz: Photometric redshift estimation using generalized linear models
GALAPAGOS-C: Galaxy Analysis over Large Areas
GALIC: Galaxy initial conditions construction

HEAsoft: Unified Release of FTOOLS and XANADU
IIPImage: Large-image visualization
Imfit: A Fast, Flexible Program for Astronomical Image Fitting
LIA: LWS Interactive Analysis
LightcurveMC: An extensible lightcurve simulation program

NumCosmo: Numerical Cosmology
O2scl: Object-oriented scientific computing library
PhotoRApToR: PHOTOmetric Research APplication TO Redshifts
PIA: ISOPHOT Interactive Analysis
pieflag: CASA task to efficiently flag bad data

POET: Planetary Orbital Evolution due to Tides
RDGEN: Routines for data handling, display, and adjusting
Skycorr: Sky emission subtraction for observations without plain sky information
SPAM: Source Peeling and Atmospheric Modeling
VisiOmatic: Celestial image viewer

VPFIT: Voigt profile fitting program
vpguess: Fitting multiple Voigt profiles to spectroscopic data
WSClean: Widefield interferometric imager

July 2014 additions to the ASCL

Twenty codes were added to the ASCL in July:

AstroML: Machine learning and data mining in astronomy
ASTRORAY: General relativistic polarized radiative transfer code
BayesFlare: Bayesian method for detecting stellar flares
Brut: Automatic bubble classifier
CLE: Coronal line synthesis

e-MERLIN data reduction pipeline
Exopop: Exoplanet population inference
EZ_Ages: Stellar population age calculator
Halogen: Multimass spherical structure models for N-body simulations
kungifu: Calibration and reduction of fiber-fed IFU astronomical spectroscopy

MATLAB package for astronomy and astrophysics
MCMAC: Monte Carlo Merger Analysis Code
Period04: Statistical analysis of large astronomical time series
PINGSoft2: Integral Field Spectroscopy Software
SAMI: Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph pipeline

SPECDRE: Spectroscopy Data Reduction
The Starfish Diagram: Statistical visualization tool
TWODSPEC: Long-slit and optical fiber array spectra extensions for FIGARO
VIDE: The Void IDentification and Examination toolkit
VStar: Variable star data visualization and analysis tool

June 2014 additions to the ASCL

Twenty codes were added to the ASCL in June:

ASTROM: Basic astrometry program
ASURV: Astronomical SURVival Statistics
Autoastrom: Autoastrometry for Mosaics
CGS4DR: Automated reduction of data from CGS4
COCO: Conversion of Celestial Coordinates

CoREAS: CORSIKA-based Radio Emission from Air Showers simulator
FROG: Time-series analysis
GAUSSCLUMPS: Gaussian-shaped clumping from a spectral map
IRAS90: IRAS Data Processing
IRCAMDR: IRCAM3 Data Reduction Software

IUEDR: IUE Data Reduction package
JCMTDR: Applications for reducing JCMT continuum data in GSD format
MATCH: A program for matching star lists
PAMELA: Optimal extraction code for long-slit CCD spectroscopy
PERIOD: Time-series analysis package

POLMAP: Interactive data analysis package for linear spectropolarimetry
RV: Radial Components of Observer’s Velocity
STARMAN: Stellar photometry and image/table handling
TSP: Time-Series/Polarimetry Package
VADER: Viscous Accretion Disk Evolution Resource

May 2014 additions to the ASCL

Eighteen codes were added to the ASCL in May:

ATV: Image display tool
CURSA: Catalog and Table Manipulation Applications
DATACUBE: A datacube manipulation package
Defringeflat: Fringe pattern removal
DIPSO: Spectrum analysis code

ECHOMOP: Echelle data reduction package
ESP: Extended Surface Photometry
FLUXES: Position and flux density of planets
FORWARD: Forward modeling of coronal observables
HIIPHOT: Automated Photometry of H II Regions

LBLRTM: Line-By-Line Radiative Transfer Model
PHOTOM: Photometry of digitized images
PISA: Position Intensity and Shape Analysis
POLPACK: Imaging polarimetry reduction package
PROPER: Optical propagation routines

TelFit: Fitting the telluric absorption spectrum
The Hammer: An IDL Spectral Typing Suite
TRIPP: Time Resolved Imaging Photometry Package

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.