Category Archives: code additions

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.

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.