This page offers a list of all the software managed by the SIE de Investigacion. Click on the package name to go to the corresponding web page with detailed information. The installation of some of the less used (or more troublesome) packages will be done only upon request by a user.
All of the installed packages run on Ubuntu 22.04 x86_64, the current distribution which is being installed in all Linux desktops and (most) laptops. In the "Type" column, "Loc" means that the package has been installed locally, while "OS" means that it was installed from the Ubuntu package repositories.
A very comprehensive and well organized Astronomical Software Directory
can be found in http://www.skysoft.org/
| Software | Installed Release | Type | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reduction of Astronomical Data - General Packages | |||
| AIPS++ | Installed upon request | Loc | Astronomical Information Processing System. |
| CASA | 6.6.3 | Loc | Common Astronomy Software Applications |
| CIAO | 4.16 | Loc | System for the analysis of data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and from other, non-X-ray missions. |
| IRAF | 2.16.1 | Loc | Image Reduction and Analysis Facility. |
| GILDAS | Apr24a | Loc | Collection of state-of-the-art softwares oriented toward (sub-millimeter) radioastronomical applications. |
| HEAsoft | 6.34 | Loc | Software suite developed at HEASARC. |
| MIDAS | 21FEBpl1.0 | OS | ESO Munich Image Data Analysis System. |
| PyRAF | 2.2.1 | Loc | Set of Python routines and C extensions for general astronomical data analysis infrastructure. PyRAF is a command language for IRAF based on Python. |
| Starlink | 2021A | Loc | A compilation of Astronomical Softwares for UK astronomers. |
| THELI | 3.1.3 | Loc | Tool for the automated reduction of astronomical images. |
| Reduction of Astronomical Data - Specialized Tools | |||
| ALFA | 2.2 | OS | Automated Line Fitting Algorithm |
| Astrometry.net | 0.94 | OS | Tool to create correct, standards-compliant astrometric meta-data for every useful astronomical image ever taken. |
| BBarolo | 1.7 | OS | 3D-Based Analysis of Rotating Object via Line Observations: tool to create correct, standards-compliant astrometric meta-data for every useful astronomical image ever taken. |
| Cloudy | C23.01 | Loc | Photoionization simulations for the discriminating astrophysicist since 1978. |
| Dolphot | n/a | Loc | stellar photometry package that was adapted from HSTphot for general use. |
| DAOPHOT | n/a | Loc | Computer program for crowded-field stellar photometry. |
| Doppler | 1.0.3 | Loc | Tom Marsh's NDF-based routines for carrying out maximum entropy based Doppler tomography. |
| Ensemble | 1.2 | Loc | Package to analyze a set of measurements of many stars taken from many images, and to find the optimal photometric solution. |
| GALFIT | 3.0.5 | Loc | A galaxy/point source fitting algorithm that fits 2-D parameterized, axisymmetric, functions directly to images. |
| GNU Astronomy Utilities | 0.23 | Loc | GNU package consisting of various programs and library functions for the manipulation and analysis of astronomical data. |
| Healpix | 3.82 | Loc | Software for pixelization, hierarchical indexation, synthesis, analysis, and visualization of data on the sphere. |
| Imfit | 1.9.0 | OS | Program for fitting astronomical images -- especially images of galaxiesS. |
| Indexf | 4.3 | Loc | C++ program that measures line-strength indices (not only the Ca II indices) in fully calibrated FITS spectra. |
| Karma | 1.7.25 | Loc | Structured Library for Signal and Image Processing and Visualisation (useful for radio-astronomy). |
| Miriad | 20190404 | Loc | Multichannel Image Reconstruction, Image Analysis and Display. |
| Molecfit | N/A | Loc | Software tool to correct astronomical observations for atmospheric absorption features. Will be installed upon request. |
| Molly | 1.1.8 | Loc | Program for the analysis of 1D astronomical spectra, deveoped by Tom Marsh. |
| MOOG | Nov2019 | Loc | Code that performs a variety of LTE line analysis and spectrum synthesis tasks. |
| NEAT | 2.3-2 | Loc | Program for calculating chemical abundances in photoionised nebulae. |
| P3D | 2.7.0.1 | Loc | Data-reduction tool that is intended to be used with data of fiber-fed integral field spectrographs (IFSs) |
| Pamela | 1.0.9 | Loc | Package written by Tom Marsh for 2D to 1D spectrum extraction. |
| PSFEx | 3.17.1 | OS | PSF (PSF Extractor) extracts models of the Point Spread Function (PSF) from FITS images processed with SExtractor, and measures the quality of images. |
| REDUCEME | 5.0 | Loc | Analysis of long-slit spectroscopic data. |
| rmodel | 3.2.3 | Loc | Program that determines stellar population parameters (e.g. age, metallicity, IMF slope,...), using as input line-strength indices. |
| SCAMP | 2.10.0 | OS | The TERAPIX calibration tool. |
| SExtractor | 2.25.0 | OS | Source Extractor - Builds a catalog of objects from an astronomical image. |
| SkyMaker | 4.2.0 | Loc | Program that simulates astronomical images. |
| SWarp | 2.41.5 | OS | Program that resamples and co-adds together FITS images using any arbitrary astrometric projection defined in the WCS standard. |
| ULTRACAM | 9.16 | Loc | Software to enable reduction and analysis of ULTRACAM multi-CCD data, deveoped by Tom Marsh. |
| VAPOR | 3.9.1 | Loc | Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers. |
| VisIt | 3.4.1 | Loc | Open Source, interactive, scalable, visualization, animation and analysis tool. |
| ZEBRA | 1.10 | Loc | ZEBRA combines and extends several of the classical approaches to produce accurate photometric redshifts. |
| Zphot-Hyperz | 1.1 | Loc | New and public photometric redshift code. |
| Proposals and Observations Planning | |||
| APT | Installed upon request | The Astronomer's Proposal Tool aims at improving the HST proposal preparation process. | |
| p2pp | Installed upon request | Phase 2 Preparation Tool used to create and manage Observation Blocks at ESO telescopes. | |
| Starpos | Feb 2004 | Loc | A program to plot altitude versus time for a list of objects and for a given night. |
| TinyTim | 6.3 | Loc | Software package for generating Hubble Space Telescope (HST) model point spread functions. |
| XEphem | 4.2.0 | Loc | "Star-charting, sky-simulating, ephemeris-generating" package. |
| General Data Analysis | |||
| GDL | 1.0.1 | OS | Free/libre/open source incremental compiler compatible with IDL (ie. runs IDL programs). |
| IDL | 9.0 | Loc | Software for data analysis, visualization and application developments. |
| Mathematica | 14.0 | Loc | Integrated environment for numeric and symbolic computation and 2D and 3D graphics. |
| Octave | 6.4.0 | OS | High-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. |
| R | 4.1.2 | OS | Language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. |
| Sage | 9.5-4 | OS | Free open-source mathematics software system that combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface. |
| Yacas | 1.3.6 | OS | Easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System. |
| Yorick | 2.2.04 | OS | Interpreted programming language for scientific simulations or calculations, interactive scientific graphics, and reading, writing, or translating large files of numbers. |
| Display and Graphics Packages | |||
| Aladin | 12.060 | Loc | Interactive software that allows to visualize digitized astronomical images, superimpose entries from catalogs, and access data archives. |
| Blender | 3.0.1 | OS | Open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. |
| DS9 | 8.5 | Loc | Astronomical imaging and data visualization application. |
| Fitscut | 1.4.4 | OS | Tool designed to extract cutouts from FITS image format files. |
| fv | 5.5.4 | Loc | Software tool for viewing and editing any FITS format image or table, developed at HEASARC. |
| g3data | 1.5.2 | OS | Tool used for extracting data from graphs. |
| GAIA/SkyCat | 4.4.9 | Loc | Image display that can also access catalogs and archive data. |
| Gifsicle | 1.93 | OS | UNIX command-line tool for creating, editing, and getting information about GIF images and animations. |
| Gnuplot | 5.4 | OS | Command-driven interactive function plotting program. |
| Grace | 5.1.25 | OS | WYSIWYG tool to make two-dimensional plot of scientific data. |
| JHelioviewer | 4.6.3 | Loc | Visualization software for solar image data. |
| QFitsView | 4.1 | Loc | FITS file viewer similar to SAOimage, DS9, and the like, based on the cross-platform QT library. |
| STIFF | 2.4.0 | OS | Program that converts scientific FITS images to the more popular TIFF format for illustration purposes. |
| Supermongo | 2.4.36 | Loc | Interactive plotting program with a flexible command language. |
| Xfig | 3.2.8b | OS | Interactive drawing tool running on most Unix platforms. Can edit postscript files. Includes fig2dev converter. |
| XImtool | 2.0beta | Loc | Image display from the IRAF group. |
| Editors and Text Processors | |||
| Emacs | 27.1 | OS | Advanced, customizable, extensible real-time display editor. |
| JabRef | 3.8.2 | OS | Java-based open source bibliography reference manager. |
| Kile | 4.2.9 | OS | Application for KDE, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application. |
| LaTeX | TeX Live 2021.20220204-1 | OS | Typesetting system for high-quality scientific and mathematical documents. |
| LaTeX2HTML | 2021.2 | OS | Conversion tool from LaTeX to HTML format. |
| LyX | 2.3.6 | OS | Cprivate and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you thinkombines the high quality of a real typesetting system, with the comfortable interface of a word processor. |
| Mendeley | 2.122.0 | Loc | Academic software for bibliography creation and research paper management. |
| Obsidian | 1.6.7 | Loc | Private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think. |
| Texmaker | 5.0.3 | OS | Free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application. |
| HTML Tidy | 5.6.0 | OS | Open source program and library for checking and generating clean XHTML/HTML. |
| XEmacs | 21.4.24 | OS | Emacs: The Next Generation. |
| Zotero | 7.0.5 | Loc | Easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research |
| Programming and Libraries | |||
| Bazaar | 3.2.1 | OS | Decentralized Revision Control System designed to be easy for developers and end users alike. |
| CFITSIO | 4.0.0 | OS | Subroutine interface for reading and writing file in FITS. |
| gcc/g++ | 11.4.0 | OS | The GNU project C and C++ compiler. |
| gfortran | 11.4.0 | OS | Free Fortran 95/2003/2008 compiler for the GNU Compiler Collection. |
| GSL | 2.7.1 | OS | Numerical library for C and C++ programmers. |
| Intel oneAPI | 2024.2.1 | Loc | Intel oneAPI Base and HPC toolkits. |
| Julia | 1.10.5 | Loc | high-level, general-purpose dynamic programming language. |
| MPICH | 4.0-3 | OS | High-performance and widely portable implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. |
| NVIDIA HPC SDK | 24.9 | Loc | Comprehensive Suite of Compilers, Libraries and Tools for HPC |
| PGPLOT | 5.2 | OS | Fortran- or C-callable, device-independent graphics package. |
| Plotutils | 2.6-11 | OS | Amongst other things, a powerful C/C++ function library for exporting 2-D vector graphics in many file formats, both vector and raster. |
| plusFORT | 8.04 | Loc | Multi-purpose suite of tools for analyzing and improving Fortran programs. |
| PyCharm | 2024.2.1 | Loc | The Python IDE for data science and web development |
| Python | 3.10 | OS | Programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. |
| Visual Studio Code | 1.93.1 | Loc | standalone source code editor. |
| WCSLIB | 8.2.2 | Loc | C library, supplied with a full set of Fortran wrappers, that implements the "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard in FITS. |
| WCSTools | 3.9.5 | OS | Set of programs and libraries to work with the World Coordinate System. |
| Access to Catalogs and Archives, VO tools | |||
| CDSClient | 3.84 | Loc | Set of C and csh routines which allow to query some databases located at CDS or on mirrors over the network. |
| SPLAT | 3.11-3 | Loc | Graphical tool for displaying, comparing, modifying and analyzing astronomical spectra stored in NDF, FITS and TEXT files as well as the new NDX format. |
| STILTS | 3.5 | Loc | Set of command-line tools to deal with the processing of tabular data, such as astronomical tables and object catalogues. |
| Telarchive | 2.0.3 | Loc | Python command-line program for searching multiple public telescope archives. |
| TOPCAT | 4.10 | Loc | Interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. |
| VOConvert | 1.0 | Loc | Tool for converting files from one format to another. |
| VODesktop | 1.3.2 | Loc | Launching point for doing science using VO tools. |
| VOPlot | 1.8 | Loc | Tool for visualizing astronomical data in the VOTable format. |
| VOSpec | 6.8 | Loc | Tool to handle VO-compatible spectra. |