Category Archives: codes

May 2015 additions to the ASCL

Thirty-four codes were added to the ASCL in May 2015:

2dfdr: Data reduction software
ARoME: Analytical Rossiter-McLaughlin Effects
ASteCA: Automated Stellar Cluster Analysis
Athena3D: Flux-conservative Godunov-type algorithm for compressible magnetohydrodynamics
BAYES-X: Bayesian inference tool for the analysis of X-ray observations of galaxy clusters

CALCEPH: Planetary ephemeris files access code
CANDID: Companion Analysis and Non-Detection in Interferometric Data
caret: Classification and Regression Training
COBS: COnstrained B-Splines
cosmoabc: Likelihood-free inference for cosmology

CUTE: Correlation Utilities and Two-point Estimation
dStar: Neutron star thermal evolution code
FCLC: Featureless Classification of Light Curves
fits2hdf: FITS to HDFITS conversion
HALOGEN: Approximate synthetic halo catalog generator

KS Integration: Kelvin-Stokes integration
Lensed: Forward parametric modelling of strong lenses
LSSGALPY: Visualization of the large-scale environment around galaxies on the 3D space
missForest: Nonparametric missing value imputation using random forest
Planck Level-S: Planck Simulation Package

POKER: P Of K EstimatoR
pyMCZ: Oxygen abundances calculations and uncertainties from strong-line flux measurements
PyTransit: Transit light curve modeling
relline: Relativistic line profiles calculation
RESOLVE: Bayesian algorithm for aperture synthesis imaging in radio astronomy

rvfit: Radial velocity curves fitting for binary stars or exoplanets
SCEPtER: Stellar CharactEristics Pisa Estimation gRid
SNEC: SuperNova Explosion Code
Snoopy: General purpose spectral solver
SNooPy: TypeIa supernovae analysis tools

Starfish: Robust spectroscopic inference tools
StellaR: Stellar evolution tracks and isochrones tools
TEA: Thermal Equilibrium Abundances
TFIT: Mixed-resolution data set photometry package

April 2015 additions to the ASCL

Twenty-one codes were added to the ASCL in April 2015:

abcpmc: Approximate Bayesian Computation for Population Monte-Carlo code
BGLS: A Bayesian formalism for the generalised Lomb-Scargle periodogram
chimenea: Multi-epoch radio-synthesis data imaging
CosmoTransitions: Cosmological Phase Transitions
D3PO: Denoising, Deconvolving, and Decomposing Photon Observations

DPI: Symplectic mapping for binary star systems for the Mercury software package
drive-casa: Python interface for CASA scripting
EsoRex: ESO Recipe Execution Tool
HOTPANTS: High Order Transform of PSF ANd Template Subtraction
IGMtransmission: Transmission curve computation

JWFront: Wavefronts and Light Cones for Kerr Spacetimes
kozai: Hierarchical triple systems evolution
LineProf: Line Profile Indicators
MCSpearman: Monte Carlo error analyses of Spearman’s rank test
MRrelation: Posterior predictive mass distribution

samiDB: A Prototype Data Archive for Big Science Exploration
Self-lensing binary code with Markov chain
SPA: Solar Position Algorithm
SOAP 2.0: Spot Oscillation And Planet 2.0
UPMASK: Unsupervised Photometric Membership Assignment in Stellar Clusters

WebbPSF: James Webb Space Telescope PSF Simulation Tool

Closure of Google Code and impact on ASCL records

Google has announced the closure of its Google Code service. Google suggests several courses of action and states, “We … offer stand-alone tools for migrating to GitHub and Bitbucket, and SourceForge offers a Google Code project importer service.”

Please take steps to save your software! If you migrate your code to another site, I would appreciate knowing the new URL. If you are no longer working on your software and do not want to migrate it to another project hosting site, please allow the ASCL to store an archive file (tarball/zip/etc.) of it with the ASCL entry so it remains available to support your written research record, or select another option to preserve your code. If you would like to have the ASCL host an archive file, please contact me; thank you.

Even more data play: Social media and the rest

The pie below shows what percentage of codes in the ASCL have social coding links in their entries, and the Starlink caveat still holds: all the Starlink codes are in one Github repo, so that repo is represented only once in the pie below. These numbers are somewhat low, as some codes offer a webpage/site to which the ASCL links, with that webpage then directing people to a repostitory. If someone does a better analysis, please send it over; I’d love to include it!

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As before, the data are here.

Related posts:
Data play: Social coding sites
More data play: Common domains

February 2015 additions to the ASCL

Twenty-three codes were added in February, 2015:

ADAM: All-Data Asteroid Modeling
AMIsurvey: Calibration and imaging pipeline for radio data
AstroLines: Astrophysical line list generator in the H-band
Camelus: Counts of Amplified Mass Elevations from Lensing with Ultrafast Simulations
HDS: Hierarchical Data System

KAPPA: Optically thin spectra synthesis for non-Maxwellian kappa-distributions
ketu: Exoplanet candidate search code
libnova: Celestial mechanics, astrometry and astrodynamics library
Magnetron: Fitting bursts from magnetars
MaLTPyNT: Quick look timing analysis for NuSTAR data

Montblanc: GPU accelerated Radio Interferometer Measurement Equations in support of Bayesian Inference for Radio Observations
nbody6tt: Tidal tensors in N-body simulations
NGenIC: Cosmological structure initial conditions
OpenOrb: Open-source asteroid orbit computation software
PARSEC: PARametrized Simulation Engine for Cosmic rays

PolyChord: Nested sampling for cosmology
PyBDSM: Python Blob Detection and Source Measurement
Rabacus: Analytic Cosmological Radiative Transfer Calculations
RH 1.5D: Polarized multi-level radiative transfer with partial frequency distribution
ROBOSPECT: Width fitting program

SPHGR: Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics Galaxy Reduction
XFGLENSES: Gravitational lens visualizer
XPCell: Convective plasma cells simulator

Data play: Social coding sites

I’ve posted before about where the codes are; here’s a pie that shows the relative use of Github, Google Code, Bitbucket, and Sourceforge. Please note that because all the Starlink codes are in one Github repo, that repo is represented only once in the pie below. Want to do your own analysis? The site links (1080 of them at the moment, as some codes have more than one) are available here.

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January 2015 additions to the ASCL