Bertrand Plez, developer of the code TurboSpectrum, released a new version of the code yesterday. He maintains a list of code users; please email him to be added to the list.
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Web Tools and Resources
The ASCL has a thread of web tools and resources for astronomers that we’ve come across while code-gathering. Sometimes these are web versions of downloadable codes in the ASCL; if a code is available only in a non-downloadable version, essentially acting as a black box, it is listed here, too, rather than given a regular entry.
In June and July, we’ve added four new web tools to the thread:
PaperScope, a tool for graphically exploring the Astrophysics Data System (ADS). It’s useful for identifying the citation/reference relationships between papers, and enables the user to visualize these relationships to make locating papers of interest easier.
SpectroWeb, an online maintained interactive graphical database of digital spectral atlases of spectral standard stars.
StarView, an astronomical database browser and research analysis tool.
Time Utilities, which are online applets that convert a list of UTCs to Barycentric Julian Dates in Barycentric Dynamical Time (BJD_TDB), Barycentric Julian Dates in Barycentric Dynamical Time (BJD_TDB) to Julian Dates in UTC, and Heliocentric Julian Dates to Barycentric Julian Dates.
Have a good resource that should be listed? Please add it to the thread; thanks!
Codes added in 2012 June
On June 30, there were 461 codes in the library listed on 5 pages.
bhint: High-precision integrator for stellar systems
Catena: Ensemble of stars orbit integration
Double Eclipsing Binary Fitting
FITS Liberator: Image processing software
ImageHealth: Quality Assurance for Large FITS Images
ImageJ: Image processing and analysis in Java
Libimf
mkj_libs: Helper routines for plane-fitting & analysis tools
MOLSCAT: MOLecular SCATtering
Plumix: Generating mass segregated star clusters
RegiStax: Alignment, stacking and processing of images
statpl: Goodness-of-fit for power-law distributed data
STSDAS: IRAF Tools for Hubble Space Telescope data reduction
Time Utilities
Codes added in 2012 May
On May 31, there were 447 codes in the library listed on 5 pages.
ARES: Automatic Routine for line Equivalent widths in stellar Spectra
Flexion: IDL code for calculating gravitational flexion
Fv: Interactive FITS file editor
Iris: The VAO SED Application
Mayavi2: 3D Scientific Data Visualization and Plotting
Mechanic: Numerical MPI framework for dynamical astronomy
Meudon PDR: Atomic & molecular structure of interstellar clouds
MIA+EWS: MIDI data reduction tool
p3d: General data-reduction tool for fiber-fed integral-field spectrographs
Turbospectrum: Code for spectral synthesis
Codes added in 2012 April
On April 30, there were 436 codes in the library listed on 5 pages.
ASCfit: Automatic Stellar Coordinate Fitting Package
BUDDA: BUlge/Disk Decomposition Analysis
epsnoise: Pixel noise in ellipticity and shear measurements
EXCOP: EXtraction of COsmological Parameters
Fosite: 2D advection problem solver
GRASIL: Spectral evolution of stellar systems with dust
MC3D: Monte-Carlo 3D Radiative Transfer Code
ORSA: Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis
PROFIT: Emission-line PROfile FITting routine
pyBLoCXS: Bayesian Low-Count X-ray Spectral analysis
Shape: A 3D Modeling Tool for Astrophysics
StarFISH: For Inferring Star-formation Histories
STOKES: Modeling Radiative Transfer and Polarization
VH-1: Multidimensional ideal compressible hydrodynamics code
VirGO: A Visual Browser for the ESO Science Archive Facility
WM-basic: Modeling atmospheres of hot stars
WOMBAT: sWift Objects for Mhd BAsed on Tvd
A new resource for the ASCL
It’s taken a while to pull it all together, but the ASCL now has an additional portal to the codes in and information about the resource; welcome to the ASCL blog-and-associated-pages site! Some of the information here is also on the ASCL forum. This additional site gives the ASCL more flexibility, however, and includes a quick codes summary page, questions and answers, and a familiar and easy way for people — you? — to submit codes for possible inclusion and make suggestions for and comments on what you’d like to see from the ASCL.
Codes added in 2012 March
On March 31, there were 419 codes in the library listed on 5 pages.
AE: ACIS Extract
Astrometrica: Astrometric data reduction of CCD images
EBTEL: Enthalpy-Based Thermal Evolution of Loops
EMACSS: Evolve Me A Cluster of StarS
FERENGI: Full and Efficient Redshifting of Ensembles of Nearby Galaxy Images
Figaro: Data Reduction Software
GALAPAGOS: Galaxy Analysis over Large Areas: Parameter Assessment by GALFITting Objects from SExtractor
Gyoto: General relativitY Orbit Tracer of Observatoire de Paris
MegaLUT: Correcting ellipticity measurements of galaxies
MYRIAD: N-body code for simulations of star clusters
SALT2: Spectral Adaptive Lightcurve Template
spec2d: DEEP2 DEIMOS Spectral Pipeline
Youpi: YOUr processing PIpeline
Codes added in 2012 February
As of February 29, there were 406 codes in the library listed on 5 pages.
Chombo: Adaptive Solutions of Partial Differential Equations
CISM_DX: Visualization and analysis tool
CoCoNuT: General relativistic hydrodynamics code with dynamical space-time evolution
CORSIKA: An Air Shower Simulation Program
CRUNCH3D: Three-dimensional compressible MHD code
FISA: Fast Integrated Spectra Analyzer
Lattimer-Swesty Equation of State Code
Mangle: Angular Mask Software
MOOG: LTE line analysis and spectrum synthesis
NOVAS: Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Software
RADMC-3D: A multi-purpose radiative transfer tool
SME: Spectroscopy Made Easy
SPECTRE: Manipulation of single-order spectra
TALYS: Nuclear Reaction Simulator
ZODIPIC: Zodiacal Cloud Image Synthesis
Codes added in 2012 January
On January 31, there were 391 codes in the library listed on 4 pages.
2LPTIC: 2nd-order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory Initial Conditions
CLUMPY: A code for gamma-ray signals from dark matter structures
Duchamp: A 3D source finder for spectral-line data
emGain: Determination of EM gain of CCD
ExoFit: Orbital parameters of extra-solar planets from radial velocity
FFTW: Fastest Fourier Transform in the West
Fisher4Cast: Fisher Matrix Toolbox
Hammurabi: Simulating polarized Galactic synchrotron emission
HNBody: Hierarchical N-Body Symplectic Integration Package
Inflation: Monte-Carlo Code for Slow-Roll Inflation
LumFunc: Luminosity Function Modeling
McScatter: Three-Body Scattering with Stellar Evolution
Mercury: A software package for orbital dynamics
Roche: Visualization and analysis tool for Roche-lobe grometry of evolving binaries
SeBa: Stellar and binary evolution
SPS: SPIRE Photometer Simulator
VIM: Visual Integration and Mining
ADS is now indexing ASCL entries
As of January 9, 2012, the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) started indexing ASCL entries. Codes can be cited as [author], [year], [code name], ASCL [ascl ID number], for example: Nemiroff, R. J. 1999, BHSKY, ASCL 9910.006
To provide an online citation to a particular entry, you can use the ascl ID number. For the example above, typing ascl.net/9910.006 into your browser brings up the entry for BHSKY.
Edited 11/28/2012 to add:
Most citations to codes have been in the format:
- author, year, in Astrophysics Source Code Library, record ascl ID
For example: Barnes, J. E., 2011, Astrophysics Source Code Library, record ascl:1102.027
Using the entire ascl ID (ascl:xxxx.xxx) in the reference enables ADS to more easily pick up the citation. It may be helpful to the reader to include the name of the code as well:
- Barnes, J. E., 2011, ZENO, Astrophysics Source Code Library, record ascl:1102.027
The ascl ID number can be used to provide a link to a particular entry. For the example above, typing ascl.net/1102.027 into your browser brings up the entry for the code ZENO.