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  • astroconda: Third-party add-on channel to provide easy access to STScI’s software packages (https://astroconda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#) 
    • Description: AstroConda is a free Conda channel maintained (until Feb. 2023) by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland.
      This channel provides tools and utilities required to process and analyze data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and others.
    • To load it: ml anaconda3 then init-conda then conda activate astroconda
    • Version installed: ?
    • Acknowledgement: STScI


  • astrosource: Analysis script for sources with variability in their brightness (https://pypi.org/project/astrosource/).
    • Description: automating optical astronomy measurement, calibration and analysis for variable stellar sources from provided photometry.
    • To load it: ml anaconda3 then init-conda then conda activate astrosource
    • Version installed: 1.7.0 ?
    • Acknowledgement: Written by Michael Fitzgerald and Edward Gomez. Fitzgerald et al. (2021)


  • iraf: Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (https://iraf-community.github.io/)
    • Description:
    • To load it: ml ASTRO iraf; init-iraf
    • IRAF is the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility, a general purpose software system for the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. Development and maintenance of IRAF is discontinued since 2013.
    • To load it: ml ASTRO iraf; init-iraf
    • To set it up (first time only): setup-iraf
    • Version installed: 2.17
    • Acknowledgement: The software was written by the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona. 


  • psrcat: ATNF pulsar catalog (https://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat/)
    • Description:
    • To load it:
    • The catalogue includes all published rotation-powered pulsars, including those detected only at high energies. It also includes Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) for which coherent pulsations have been detected. However, it excludes accretion-powered pulsars such as Her X-1 and the X-ray millisecond pulsars, for example,  SAX J1808.4-3658.
    • To run it: psrcat
    • Version installed (psrcat -v): Version installed: $ psrcat -v. Software version: 1.50. Catalogue version number = 1.69
    • Acknowledgement: If you make use of the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue in a publication, we request that you acknowledge the source of the information by referencing the paperAcknowledgement: Manchester, R. N., Hobbs, G. B., Teoh, A. & Hobbs, M., Astron. J., 129, 1993-2006 (2005) (astro-ph/0412641), G. B., Teoh, A. & Hobbs, M., Astron. J., 129, 1993-2006 (2005) (astro-ph/0412641), which gives a full description of the catalogue, and by quoting the web address http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat.


  • NE2001 and ymw16: Dispersion measure (pulsar) distance models.
    • Description: Two common models for the Galactic distribution of free electrons. Both YMW16 and NE2001 can convert from pulse dispersion measure (DM, in pc/cm^3) to distance (in pc or kpc), or vice-versa, using the corresponding electron density models.
    NE2001 and ymw16: Dispersion measure (pulsar) distance models.
    • Description:
    • To load/start it use NE2001 and ymw16 commands
    • Version installed:  2001 and 2017, static.
    • AcknowledgementsAcknowledgement:

NE2001: Cordes & Lazio (2002) https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207156
See also: /cluster/apps/software/ASTRO/ne2001/src.NE2001/code.ps

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