天文科学软件集 Scisoft

Scisoft V5

Scisoft 是一个天文软件集,也是欧洲南方天文台(ESO)的一个项目计划,里面的大部分软件都是ESO以为的开发,都由ESO集合到这个套件里。内容有经常使用的数据分析软件(IRAF/STSDAS, ESO-MIDAS 和 IDL等),还有其它一些小软件。

整个套件是一张光盘,内容是一个压缩包,大约500多M,但是解压之后可以达到2G多。目前该套件只支持Unix类操作系统和Mac OS,主要是支持Linux。目前最新版是V5,发布于2003年12月,支持RedHat 9及以后版本。

由于软件包内容丰富,体积庞大,因此建议专门分一个/Scisift分区安装这些文件,分区大小应该不小于3G。安装过程可以参考光盘的INSTALL文件。

下面是整个Scisoft软件套件的内容:

Data Analysis Systems Notes
IRAF
2.12.1-EXPORT
UPDATED
+ ctio
Utilities from CTIO
+ crutil (v1.6) Cosmic ray utilities from NOAO
+ gemini Utilities from the Gemini Telescopes (v1.3)
+ gemini Miscellaneous support tasks from the Gemini Telescopes
+ mxtools Utilities from NOAO including QDPHOT
+ guiapps Graphical applications for IRAF
+ xdimsum Enhanced IR data reduction and mosaicing software (Jan 2002 version)
+ ifocas object detection and classification software (April 2001 version)
+ dimsum v2 IR data reduction and mosaicing software
+ color
Utilities for creating colour images
+ fitsutil
FITS utilities
+ mscred v4.6
Mosaic camera CCD reduction tasks from NOAO
+ esowfi 1.3 March 2001 Version
+ eis v1.8 ESO Imaging Survey IRAF tasks (EIS Drizzle etc) - UPDATED
+ rvsao v2.2.5 Spectral Radial Velocity package from CfA
+ nmisc IRAF miscellany
+ xccdred CCD reduction for multi-port chips
+ stecf v1.5 Utilities from ST-ECF, including polarimetry reduction and spectral restoration packages - UPDATED
+ stsdas/tables 3.0 HST data analysis and tables systems - UPDATED
eclipse-4.2.0 Includes ISAAC, CONICA, WFI, Python, Lua and ADONIS add-ons
ESO-MIDAS 03FEB pl1.2 version - UPDATED
IDL V6.0 Interactive Data Language from RSI. Commercial package, requires license - UPDATED
+ ASTRON March 25th 2002 Goddard ASTRON IDL astronomical procedure library (Feb. 2003) - UPDATED
+ StarFinder IDL adaptive optics photometry software
+ JHUAPL Library IDL procedure collection from Johns Hopkins
+ ATV an interactive display tool for IDL
Gildas (Feb 2000) Radio astronomy applications from IRAM (full applications set)
DIFMAP V2.3c Interactive program for radio synthesis imaging from Caltech
Image Display Servers Notes
x11iraf V1.3.1 May 2000 version, including ximtool and xgterm - UPDATED
SAOImage V1.29.3 The original, needs 8bit Xserver
SAOtng V1.9.1 Part of the SAO RD suite
DS9 V3.0b5 Latest display server from SAO. Works with 24bit X servers - UPDATED
Skycat V2.7.3 ESO image display tool with catalogue and image server access - UPDATED
fv V3.2 Interactive fits viewer
Graphics Software Notes
SM 2_4_2 SuperMONGO - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version
PGPLOT 5.2 Graphics library
gnuplot 3.7 Command-line driven interactive function plotting utility
Grace-5.1.10 2D WYSIWYG plotting tool - UPDATED
ggobi V0.9.2 Data visualisation in 3D
xgobi Data visualisation in Dd
Scripting Languages Notes
Python 2.2.1 General purpose, object orientated, extensible scripting language. Includes Numeric 21.0 Scientific 2.0 RV Gnuplot 1.5 Imaging 1.1.4 PyRAF 1.1B1 Pmw pCFITSIO 0.98.9 slalib 0.4 posix _sre readline _locale thread gdbm zlib fcntl pwd grp errno select mmap _socket termios _tkinter rotor new binascii cStringIO & cPickle packages - UPDATED
PyRAF 1.1B1 Python replacement for IRAF cl - UPDATED
PyDrizzle V4.3 Drizzling software - NEW
MultiDrizzle V1.2.1 Drizzling software - NEW
Scientific Libraries Notes
GSL V1.4 The GNU Scientific Library - NEW
DISLIN 8.1 Scientific Data Plotting software - UPDATED
CFITSIO 2470 FITS File Subroutine Library - UPDATED
LAPACK Release 3.0 Linear Algebra Subroutine Library
BLAS Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
Miscellaneous Utilities Notes
wcstools 3.0.5 World Coordinate System software tools and library from Doug Mink at SAO
Terapix Software Tools A Selection: SExtractor 2.3 - UPDATED, SWarp 1.31 - UPDATED, & WeightWatcher 1.3
Tiny Tim V6.1 (April 2003) HST point-spread function simulation software - UPDATED
Xephem V3.4 Planetarium and ephemeris software
dss & dss2 Digitized Sky Survey image extraction software
Cloudy 94.00 Plasma simulation and spectral synthesis code (no patches applied)
HyperZ V1.1 Photometric Redshift Code
Hipparcos Transit Tools small Fortran applications (td2uv and td2gf) for processing transit data
mirror 2.9 Mirroring software in Perl
Latex style files A collection of style files for astronomical journals - UPDATED

内容很丰富,肯定很多人感兴趣了吧!下面介绍如何得到这张光盘:第一种方法,下载,但是下载的软件比较分散,不是一个完整的大包。

另一种方法就是可以向ESO免费索取,这也是ESO为全球天文学工作者奉献的一份免费大餐,我在2002年曾发E-Mail订过V4版,今年V5版出来之后,我又订了一份。过程很简单,只需到Scisoft的Order Form上填写完整的地址及个人信息即可在1-2周左右得到这张光盘(我当时只用了一周时间)。

我下半年将在南京学习,如果有南京的朋友需要这张光盘,可以拿我的光盘去复制,或者干脆直接将软件包复制到你的移动硬盘也可以。

关于里面的软件,除了IDL是商业版协议以外,其他的都是Free的软件。IDL需要购买许可方可使用,或者你有办法破解也行,不过还是建议使用正版(购买软件许可)。

软件的安装及使用,以后有时间将逐步介绍。