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All centralized astro-software (binaries and source) is placed under /cluster/apps/software which should be exported as the environmental variable $SOFTWARE. To use it, run first "ml ASTRO" to load the ASTRO workspace. This will set $SOFTWARE and other environmental variables required for some tools/programs to run.

For questions or software updates, contact Bogdan.

To use astro-software you should have these lines in your .bashrc

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• heasoft: A Unified Release of the FTOOLS and XANADU Software Packages (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/heasoft/)
  • Description:
    XANADU: High-level, multi-mission tasks for X-ray astronomical spectral, timing, and imaging data analysis (Xspec, Xronos, Ximage, qdp...)
    FTOOLS: General and mission-specific tools to manipulate FITS files (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/ftools/ftools_subpacks.html)
    FITSIO: Core library responsible for reading and writing FITS files
    fv: General FITS file browser/editor/plotter with a graphical user interface
    XSTAR: Tool for calculating the physical conditions and emission spectra of photoionized gases
  • To load it: ml ASTRO heasoft
    which also loads CALDB automatically
  • Version installed (fversion): 6.31 (6.30)
  • Acknowledgement:

    If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this site (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools) and use

    the 

    the ASCL reference for HEASoft [ascl:1408.004] or

    the 

    the ASCL reference for the original FTOOLs paper [ascl:9912.002]:

    Blackburn, J. K. 1995, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 77, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes (San Francisco: ASP), 367.

• caldb: HEASARC's calibration database (CALDB) system (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/caldb/caldb_intro.html)
  • Description: The HEASARC's calibration database (CALDB) system stores and indexes datasets associated with the calibration of high energy astronomical instrumentation.
  • To load it: ml ASTRO CALDB
  • Version installed: LAST UPDATE: 20220331
  • Acknowledgement: see HEASOFT above.

• ciao: Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/)
  • Description: CIAO is the software package developed by the Chandra X-Ray Center for analysing data from the Chandra X-ray Telescope. It can also be used with data from other Astronomical observatories, whether ground or space based.
  • To load it: ml anaconda3 then init-conda then conda activate ciao
    or from own module with: ml ASTRO conda+/ciao
  • Version installed (ciaover): caldb_main 4.9.7, ciao 4.14.0, ciao-contrib 4.14.2, ds9 8.3, sherpa 4.14.0
  • Acknowledgement: Fruscione et al. 2006, SPIE Proc. 6270, 62701V, D.R. Silvia & R.E. Doxsey, eds.

• fermitools: Fermi-LAT Data Analysis Tools (https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/software/ https://github.com/fermi-lat/Fermitools-conda/wiki/The-Fermitools-and-Conda)
  • Description: The Fermitools (also known as the Fermi ScienceTools) is a suite of data analysis software provided by the Fermi-LAT collaboration that is used in the analysis of data produced by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope.
  • To load it: ml anaconda3 then init-conda then conda activate fermi
    or from own module with: ml ASTRO conda+/fermi
  • Version installed (conda list fermi): fermipy 1.2, fermitools 2.2.0, fermitools-data 0.18
  • Acknowledgement: FSSC https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/software/

• starlink: Starlink Software Collection (https://starlink.eao.hawaii.edu/starlink/2021A) 
  • Description: The Starlink Software Collection provides access to a large number of Astronomical data reduction, analysis, and visualisation tools.
  • To load it: ml ASTRO starlink then init-starlink
  • Version installed: 2021A
  • Acknowledgement:  “The Starlink software (Currie et al 2014) is currently supported by the East Asian Observatory.” Currie et al. 2014 2014ASPC..485..391C.

• TRM: Tom Marsh's ultracam and molly (and related) software packages (https://cygnus.astro.warwick.ac.uk/phsaap/software/ https://github.com/trmrsh)
  • Description: molly: 1D spectrum analysis program. ultracam: aperture photometry pipeline. See all packages and documentation at /cluster/apps/software/trm/trm/html/
  • To load it: ml ASTRO trm then init-starlink
  • Version installed: molly v. 1.1.8, ultracam 8.1.17
  • Acknowledgement: T. Marsh, V. Dhillon, ...

• ds9: SAO Image ds9 (https://sites.google.com/cfa.harvard.edu/saoimageds9) 
  • Description: An image display and visualization tool for astronomical data.
  • To load it: ml ASTRO ds9
  • Version installed: 8.3
  • Acknowledgement: SAO: SAOImageDS9 development has been made possible by funding from the Chandra X-ray Science Center (CXC), the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Center (HEASARC) and the JWST Mission office at Space Telescope Science Institute. To cite SAOImageDS9 in your paper, please use: 2003adass..295..489J 

• 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

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