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Category Archives: codes
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
October 2014 additions to the ASCL
Five codes were added to the ASCL in October:
DIAMONDS: high-DImensional And multi-MOdal NesteD Sampling
GIZMO: Multi-method magneto-hydrodynamics+gravity code
MEPSA: Multiple Excess Peak Search Algorithm
RICH: Numerical simulation of compressible hydrodynamics on a moving Voronoi mesh
UVOTPY: Swift UVOT grism data reduction
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
Code citation news, info, and commentary
Mozilla Science Lab, GitHub and Figshare team up to fix the citation of code in academia
The Mozilla Science Lab, GitHub and Figshare – a repository where academics can upload, share and cite their research materials – is starting to tackle the problem. The trio have developed a system so researchers can easily sync their GitHub releases with a Figshare account. It creates a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) automatically, which can then be referenced and checked by other people.
Discussion of the above article on YCombinator
…it always make me cringe when privately held companies want to define an “open standard” for scientific citations that (surprise!) relies completely on their proprietary infrastructure. I still remember the case of Mendeley, which promised to build an open repository for research documents, and which is now a subsidiary of Elsevier, an organization that does not really embrace “open science”, to put it mildly.
Tool developed at CERN makes software citation easier
Researchers working at CERN have developed a tool that allows source code from the popular software development site GitHub to be preserved and cited through the CERN-hosted online repository Zenodo….
Now, people working on software in GitHub will be able to ensure that their code is not only preserved through Zenodo, but is also provided with a unique digital object identifier (DOI), just like an academic paper.
Webcite
WebCite is an on-demand archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites, or other kinds of Internet-accessible digital objects), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future.
DOIs unambiguously and persistently identify published, trustworthy, citable online scholarly literature. Right?
So DOIs unambiguously and persistently identify published, trustworthy, citable online scholarly literature. Right? Wrong.
The examples above are useful because they help elucidate some misconceptions about the DOI itself, the nature of the DOI registration agencies and, in particular issues being raised by new RAs and new DOI allocation models.