Astronomy Software Collection

Astronomy software collection is a disk partition which contains all the widely used Astronomy software packages and associated data. This partition is available on /astro on Delphinus. These software are compiled and tested only on 64bit redhat/centos 7.x OS.

Available Software

  • IRAF v216 : Run mkiraf if you are a first time user. Afterwards, run "xgterm" to open iraf terminal and proceed as usual. Set by default for all users.

    SolarSoft (complete)a set of integrated software libraries, data bases, and system utilities which provides a common programming and data analysis environment for Solar Physics

    • Setup Instructions: change your shell to csh (init files of solarsoft are all for csh), define your instruments by setting the environment variables.

    HEAsoft 6.19 (complete), a software suite consisting of various X-ray Astronomical data analysis packages like FTOOLS/FV, XIMAGE, XRONOS, XSPEC and XSTAR

    • Setup Instructions: run the command "heainit" to start using heasoft

    XMM-SAS 15.0 is a collection of tasks, scripts and libraries, specifically designed to reduce and analyze data collected by the XMM-Newton observatory.

    • Setup Instructions: run the command "sasinit" to start using XMM-SAS

    FSSC v10r0p5 : The Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC) runs the guest investigator program, creates and maintains the mission time line, provides analysis tools for the scientific community, and archives and serves the Fermi data.

    • Setup Instructions: run the command "fermiinit" to start using Fermi.

    CASA 4.6.0 the Common Astronomy Software Applications package for data post-processing needs of Radio telescopes and interferometers.

    • Setup Instructions: run the command "casainit" to start using CASA
Last updated on: February 20, 2024