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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VIII
ASP Conference Series, Vol. 172, 1999
Editors: D. M. Mehringer, R. L. Plante, & D. A. Roberts
Brief Table of Contents
Preface
Software Development and Management
Applications to Problems in Astronomy
Observatory Planning and Scheduling
Telescope and Instrument Control Systems
Data Compression
Data Pipelines
Archiving and Information Services
Data Analysis and Processing Techniques
Astrostatistics and Databases
User Interfaces and Visualization
Software Systems and Tools
Table of Contents
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Preface
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Software Development and Management
- The Gemini Data Handling System: A Case History
S. Gaudet, N. Hill, J. Dunn, S. Jaeger, and S. Cockayne
- From a ``Launch Readiness'' System to an Astronomical Data Processing System - a Review of Four Years of CIA Development
S. Ott, R. Gastaud, S. Guest, M. Delaney, B. Altieri, B. Ali, A. Abergel, J.-L. Auguéres, H. Aussel, J-P. Bernard, A. Biviano, J. Blommaert, O. Boulade, F. Boulanger, C. Cesarsky, D. Cesarsky, R-R. Chary, V. Charmandaris, A. Claret, C. Delattre, F-X. Désert, T. Deschamps, P. Didelon, D. Elbaz, P. Gallais, K. Ganga, G. Helou, M. Kong, F. Lacombe, D. Landriu, O. Laurent, P. Le Coupanec, J. Li, L. Metcalfe, K. Okumura, M. Perault, A. Pollock, P. Roman, D. Rouan, M. Rupen, J. Sam Lone, M. Sauvage, R. Siebenmorgen, J.-L. Starck, D. Tran, D. Van Buren, L. Vigroux, and F. Vivares
- ORAC-DR: Pipelining With Other People's Code
F. Economou, A. Bridger, G. S. Wright, T. Jenness, M. J. Currie, and A. Adamson
- Status and Future Plans for Parallelization of AIPS++
D. A. Roberts, R. M. Crutcher, W. Young, and A. J. Kemball
- A ``Scientific'' Approach to Software Project Management Part I: A Survey of Development Methodologies in Scientific Computing
A. F. Granados
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Applications to Problems in Astronomy
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Observatory Planning and Scheduling
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Telescope and Instrument Control Systems
- A Radical Approach to Software Modularity in Telescope Control Software
M. H. Clark
- The Green Bank Telescope Laser Metrology Computer Control System
R. E. Creager
- Remote Observing With Java
H. Shukla, S. Scott, and S. Weaver
- Real-Time Linux Driving a Spectrometer
P. J. Teuben, A. Harris, K. Isaak, J. Morgan, and J. Zmuidzinas
- NASA's Instrument Control Markup Language (ICML)
T. J. Ames, K. B. Sall, and C. E. Warsaw
- The Scientific Uplink System for SIRTF, a Design Study
I. H. Heinrichsen, B. Hartley, B. Narron, S. Potts, G. Turek, E. Vajavec, and X. Wu
- Distribution of the OPUS Data Processing System
D. A. Swade and J. F. Rose
- CICADA - Configurable Instrument Control and Data Acquisition
P. J. Young, W. H. Roberts, and K. M. Sebo
- Novel Use of a Simulator for the Calibrations of Scientific Instruments
C. Erd, F. A. Jansen, J. Brumfitt, M. Beijersbergen, P. Gondoin, H. Siddiqui, J. Bakker, P. Videler, and L. Jalota
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Data Compression
- A Scheme for Compressing Floating-Point Images
R. L. White and P. Greenfield
- Adaptive, Lossless Compression of 2-D Astronomical Images
C. N. Sabbey
- Contour-Based Image Compression for Fast Real-Time Coding
S. V. Vasilyev
- Data Compression for NGST
M. A. Nieto-Santisteban, D. J. Fixsen, J. D. Offenberg, R. J. Hanisch, and H. S. Stockman
- Cosmic Ray Rejection with NGST
J. D. Offenberg, R. Sengupta, D. J. Fixsen, H. S. Stockman, M. A. Nieto-Santisteban, S. Stallcup, R. J. Hanisch, and J. C. Mather
- Automated Programming and Simulations of Signal Compression from the Cosmic Microwave Background for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument
M. Maris, F. Pasian, R. Smareglia, D. Maino, C. Burigana, M. Staniszkis, and J. Barriga
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Data Pipelines
- Pipeline Processing of Data in the VLT Era
P. Grosbøl, K. Banse, and P. Ballester
- The Client Server Design of the Gemini Data Handling System
N. Hill, S. Gaudet, J. Dunn, S. Jaeger, and S. Cockayne
- Interfacing with the Gemini Data Handling System
S. Jaeger, J. Dunn, S. Cockayne, S. Gaudet, and N. Hill
- The Gemini Quick Look System
N. Hill, S. Gaudet, J. Dunn, S. Jaeger, and S. Cockayne
- Handling Chunks of Image Data in the Gemini Data Handling System
J. Dunn, S. Jaeger, N. Hill, S. Gaudet, and S. Cockayne
- The SCUBA Data Reduction Pipeline: ORAC-DR at the JCMT
T. Jenness and F. Economou
- Data Reduction of Jittered Infrared Images Using the ORAC Pipeline
M. J. Currie, G. S. Wright, A. Bridger, and F. Economou
- A Broadband Wide-Field Survey on the Isaac Newton Telescope
J. R. Lewis, P. S. Bunclark, and N. A. Walton
- A Pipeline Tool for CCD Image Processing
J. F. Bell, P. J. Young, W. H. Roberts, and K. M. Sebo
- On-The-Fly Calibration at STScI
S. H. Lubow and J. Pollizzi
- On The Fly Re-calibration of NICMOS and STIS Data
A. Micol, D. Durand, B. Pirenne, S. Gaudet, and P. E. Hodge
- OAPI: the OPUS Application Programming Interface
W. W. Miller III
- The STScI HST Astrometry Pipeline
J. J. Schultz, P. Goldstein, P. Hyde, M. A. Rose, K. Steuerman, J. Baum, R. Perrine, and D. A. Swade
- An On-the-fly Calibration Pipeline for the HST WFPC-2 using OPUS
M. S. Swam and D. A. Swade
- Automated Software for Slitless Spectroscopy Analysis and Quasar Selection
C. N. Sabbey
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Archiving and Information Services
- A Search and Discovery Tool - AMASE
C. Y. Cheung, N. Roussopoulos, S. Kelley, and J. H. Blackwell
- Web-Based Tools For Exploration of ADC Data Holdings and NASA Data Archives
V. E. Kargatis, E. J. Shaya, J. H. Blackwell, K. D. Borne, R. A. White, and C. Y. Cheung
- Astrobrowse: a Web Agent for Querying Astronomical Databases
C. W. Heikkila, T. A. McGlynn, and N. E. White
- The Distributed Astronomical Preprint Service
J. E. Huizinga, R. J. Hanisch, H. E. Payne, and R. L. Williamson
- ALADIN: A Reference Tool for Identification of Astronomical Sources
F. Bonnarel, P. Fernique, F. Genova, J. G. Bartlett, O. Bienaymé, D. Egret, J. Florsch, H. Ziaeepour, and M. Louys
- The Multimission Archive at Space Telescope
D. Christian, F. Abney, T. Comeau, R. J. Hanisch, J. Harrison, C. Imhoff, R. Kidwell, T. Kimball, K. Levay, P. Padovani, M. Postman, J. Richon, M. Smith, and R. Thompson
- A System for On-line Access to the GSC II
A. Baruffolo, L. Benacchio, and L. Benfante
- Numerical Observatory: a Web Site for the Retrieval, Analysis, and Visualization of Simulated Cluster Data
G. Daues, C. Currie, P. Anninos, L. Kohler, J. Shalf, and M. L. Norman
- Spiders and Camels and Sybase! Oh, My!
I. Barg, A. J. Ferro, and E. B. Stobie
- User Defined Functions for the ISO Post Mission Archive
E. Wieprecht, B. Vandenbussche, E. Wiezorrek, H. Steinle, O. H. Bauer, C. Arviset, J. Hernandez, A. M. Plug, and R. Saxton
- Using a Java Web-based Graphical User Interface to access the SOHO Data Archive
I. Scholl, Y. Girard, and A. Bykowski
- Webmail: An Automated Web Publishing System
D. J. Bell
- Study to Install an Information System at the University of the Istanbul Astronomy and Space Sciences Department
S. Gülseçen, H. Gülseçen, H. Çaliskan, and T. Ak
- Archive Storage Subsystem for the ESO VLT
J. Dunn, S. Cockayne, S. Gaudet, S. Jaeger, and M. Albrecht
- The Prospects of DVD-R for Storing Astronomical Archive Data
B. Pirenne, M. Albrecht, and J. Schilling
- Formatting Journal Tables in XML at the ADC
E. J. Shaya, J. H. Blackwell, J. E. Gass, V. E. Kargatis, G. L. Schneider, K. D. Borne, C. Y. Cheung, and R. A. White
- An Application of XML and XLink Using a Graph-Partitioning Method and a Density Map for Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery
D. R. Guillaume and F. Murtagh
- Extracting Information from Text Data Bases
R. Albrecht and D. Merkl
- Co-occurrence Evidence for Subject Vocabulary Reconciliation in ADS Databases
J. Lee, D. S. Dubin, and M. J. Kurtz
- The ADS Bibliographic Reference Resolver
A. Accomazzi, G. Eichhorn, M. J. Kurtz, C. S. Grant, and S. S. Murray
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Data Analysis and Processing Techniques
- Computational Technology for Bayesian Inference
T. J. Loredo
- The Pixon Method of Image Reconstruction
R. C. Puetter and A. Yahil
- Algorithms for CCD Stellar Photometry
K. J. Mighell
- Joint Processing of Radio Data Produced by the SSRT Together With Data of Other Spectral Ranges
V. V. Grechnev, A. T. Altyntsev, S. K. Konovalov, and S. V. Lesovoi
- Infrared Jitter Imaging Data Reduction: Algorithms and Implementation
N. Devillard
- Combining Undersampled Dithered Data - A Review of the Options
R. N. Hook, N. Pirzkal, and A. S. Fruchter
- Quadrant DC Offset Removal in NICMOS Images Using an Eye-pleasing Criterion
I. Busko
- Data Structure and Software of the UCAC-S Project
N. Zacharias and M. I. Zacharias
- Automatic Detection of Linear Features in Astronomical Images
M. Cheselka
- Modern CCD Observations of Moving Celestial Objects: Algorithms and Software for Interactive Processing
O. P. Bykov
- DASH - Distributed Analysis System Hierarchy
M. Yagi, Y. Mizumoto, E. Nishihara, M. Yoshida, R. Asai, Y. Chikada, G. Kosugi, T. Takata, R. Ogasawara, Y. Ishihara, H. Yanaka, Y. Morita, and H. Nakamoto
- The IUE High Dispersion Spectra Processing in IRAF
P. Skoda
- Optimizing Functions Using ASCFIT
D. M. Grumm
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Astrostatistics and Databases
- References for Galaxy Clusters Database
M. Kalinkov, I. A. Valtchanov, and I. Kuneva
- R-Trees for Astronomical Data Indexing
A. Baruffolo
- ESO/CDS Data-mining Tool Development Project
P. F. Ortiz, F. Ochsenbein, A. Wicenec, and M. Albrecht
- StarView II: A Customizable Query Generation Tool
B. K. Kennedy and B. D. Mayhew
- Application of the Minimum Determination Algorithm to the Study of the Fine Structure in the Mass-Luminosity Relation and of the Nature of ``Overmassive'' Stars
O. Malkov, D. Kovaleva, and E. Schilbach
- IDL-based Database of Solar Active Regions
D. E. Gary, V. V. Grechnev, L. V. Shabarova, A. Vourlidas, and M. Nishio
- Zero-Points of FOS Wavelength Scales
M. R. Rosa and F. Kerber
- Background Fluctuation Analysis from the Multiscale Entropy
R. Gastaud, J.-L. Starck, and M. Pierre
- A New Entropy Measure Based on Multiple Resolution and Noise Modeling
F. Murtagh and J.-L. Starck
- Data Retrieval Software for the USNO-A Catalog: Another Member of the -DARES Family
O. Malkov and O. Smirnov
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User Interfaces and Visualization
- Development of a Java-Based Image Browser System for the Subaru Telescope
H. Baba, N. Yasuda, S. Ichikawa, M. Watanabe, T. Horaguchi, M. Hamabe, W. Aoki, and T. Ozawa
- A Java-IRAF Spectrum Visualization Tool
I. Busko
- A Program Complex Equipped With a GUI for Investigation of 3D Structure of Solar Magnetic Fields
G. V. Rudenko and V. V. Grechnev
- Xguiphot: A New Aperture Photometry Tool for IRAF
L. E. Davis
- SAOTk: Tcl/Tk Widgets for Imaging and Data Visualization
W. Joye and E. Mandel
- Converging Horizons: Collaborative 2/3D Visualization Tools for Astronomy
R. L. Plante, P. J. Rajlich, S. Pietrowitz, W. Xie, and A. Qamar
- DASHA-2: Improving Visualization and Processing of Photometric Data with IDL Objects
O. Smirnov
- XSKYMAP 2: A Multi-Catalog Visualization Facility
O. Smirnov and O. Malkov
- Image Display Paradigm #3
D. M. Lytle, E. B. Stobie, A. J. Ferro, and M. I. Barg
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Software Systems and Tools
- Starlink's Software Distribution System
M. J. Bly
- Design Study on Integration of StarView II and JIPA Using Advanced Java Mechanisms
M. Dolensky, B. D. Mayhew, and B. K. Kennedy
- Enhancements by Mapping with the ISOPHOT Interactive Analysis (PIA)
C. Gabriel
- DISH: The Single Dish Environment in AIPS++
R. W. Garwood and J. P. McMullin
- Some Astrophysical and Instrumental Applications of AIPS++
J. P. McMullin, R. W. Garwood, and A. H. Minter
- Automated Programming for Physics and Astrophysics
M. Maris and M. Staniszkis
- The Faint Object Spectrograph Post-COSTAR Spectropolarimetry Correction
M. De La Peña, H. Bushouse, A. Storrs, A. Koratkar, C. Keyes, and R. Allen
- Python in Astronomy
N. Pirzkal and R. N. Hook
- PyFITS, a FITS Module for Python
P. E. Barrett and W. T. Bridgman
- CFITSIO, v2.0: A New Full-Featured Data Interface
W. D. Pence
- The STSDAS Table Selector Library
B. P. Simon and P. E. Hodge
- Perl at the Joint Astronomy Centre
T. Jenness, F. Economou, R. P. J. Tilanus, C. Best, R. M. Prestage, P. Shimek, K. Glazebrook, and T. J. Farrell
- WCSTools: An Image Astrometry Toolkit
D. J. Mink
- CIRSI Data Reduction System - CIRDR
S. J. Chan, S. E. Persson, R. G. McMahon, C. D. Mackay, R. Ellis, M. G. Beckett, and M. Hoenig
- Demonstration of Parallel AIPS++ Deconvolution Application
W. Young and D. A. Roberts
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