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All,
Updated NEWS file.
Steve.
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:52:54 +0000 (GMT)
From: Starlink Software Librarian <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Starlink updates, STARJAVA, AST and GAIA
All,
Attached is a news file for the Starlink updates, STARJAVA, AST and GAIA.
Steve.
1 NEWS: Starlink USSC219B 2004 Updates Now Available
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Expires: 1-March-2005
Starlink Software USSC219B 2004 Updates are now available for download
from Starlink at RAL.
2 Starlink Source Code
====================
The source code for all the Starlink Software can now be
checked out of the Starlink CVS repository and built from
source in a standard ./configure; make; make install way.
See:
http://www.starlink.ac.uk/Download/getcvs.html
The Starlink CVS repository can be viewed at:
http://cvsweb.starlink.ac.uk
2 CD-ROMs
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The download CD-ROMs have been updated to include the new software updates.
You do not need to fully reinstall the updated CD-ROMs if you have a previous
Starlink software installation based on the Spring 2004 distribution. Only
STARJAVA, GAIA and AST have been updated on the CD-ROMs, no changes have
been made to the other software packages.
There are four CDs. These contain installation sets for all the available
applications, libraries and utilities (that are not dependent on the NAG
libraries) for Solaris 8/9, RedHat Enterprise Linux and Debian Linux
version 3.0r2. These may be used to update existing installations based on the
Summer 2003 distribution.
3 Download the CD-ROM
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The ISO images for the CD-ROMs can now be downloaded via ftp,
see:
http://www.starlink.ac.uk/Download/
The available versions are:
Updates for PC Linux / Redhat Enterprise:
Updates for PC Linux / Redhat 9.0:
Updates for PC Linux / Debian 3.0r2:
Updates for Sparc / Solaris 8/9:
STARJAVA can also be downloaded as a separate independent package that can be
installed on all supported platforms. STARJAVA will run on the following
platforms:
PC Linux / Redhat Enterprise:
PC Linux / Redhat 9.0
PC Linux / Debian 3.0r2
Sparc / Solaris 9
Microsoft Windows 98SE and above
Mac OS X 10.x (PowerPC)
3 Software Store:
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The Software Store http://www.starlink.ac.uk/store/store.html has been
updated to include all of the software that is included on the CD-ROMs,
plus the source code. The Software Store is useful for individual package
downloads.
3 Download Individual Updates
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The updates of GAIA, AST and STARJAVA for all supported systems
can be downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.starlink.ac.uk/pub/ussc/updates
These updates should be used to update installations based
on the Spring 2004 release. Please read the README file in
the updates directory for instructions on updating existing
installations:
ftp://ftp.starlink.ac.uk/pub/ussc/updates/README
2 Starlink Bulletin Issue No. 24
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If you require more copies of the new Bulletin for distribution to other users
or colleagues, then just E-mail [log in to unmask] and specify how many you
would like.
Number of Starlink Bulletins Issue No. 24:
The Bulletin can be also be downloaded from:
http://www.starlink.ac.uk/StarlinkBrochure200408-final-b-lowres.pdf
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2 USSC219B 2004 Highlights:
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3 New Applications:
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None.
3 Updated Applications:
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STARJAVA v1.1 USSC219B
Starlink Java Infrastructure and Applications Set. SUN/251 Getting
Started with the Starlink Java Infrastructure and Applications Set
describes the package and /star/starjava/javadocs/index.html describes
the Starlink STARJAVA classes API. There are miscellaneous documents
in /star/starjava/docs/ for individual package information and third
party application documentation. The STARJAVA package contains the
following applications and classes.
APPLICATIONS/UTILITIES in STARJAVA
FROG V0.7 (rebuild)
Display and analysis of time series data.
SOG V0.3 (update)
Son of GAIA, minor updates.
SPLAT V2.2 (update)
Spectral data analysis tool.
The following changes have been made in this release.
- A bug in the astrometry reading software has been fixed. This
led to the application of CDELT1 and CD1_1 scales to the
wavelength range of some spectra (produced by IRAF), which meant
that the range was underestimated by a scale CDELT1.
- You can now specify the spectrum type on the command-line using
the --type option. Valid values are: "fits","hds","text","hdx",
"table" and "line ids".
- You can now open a spectrum using a URL, so spectra stored on
remote servers can be downloaded and displayed.
- The handling of 2D and 3D input data has been enhanced.
Previously such data was just "vectorized" (that is laid out
line-by-line and displayed as a single spectrum ), now such data
is collapsed down onto the dispersion axis (if one can be
determined). For 3D data each image plane is collapsed in a
similar fashion. You can also choose to extract each line as a
spectrum.
TABLECOPY V2.0 (update)
Copy tables from one format to another.
See TOPCAT.
TOPCAT V1.3-2 (update)
Tools for OPerations on Catalogues and Tables
TOPCAT changes since v1.1:
Many improvements including: better scalability (-disk flag
allows disk-backed tables), faster and more functional plotting
including interactive selection of a non-rectangular region and
plot exports to GIF/EPS, new Activation Action feature, CSV
format supported, VOTable 1.1 supported, Java 1.5 compatibility,
more and better documented algebraic functions, faster matching.
TREEVIEW V2.2-1 (fix)
Hierarchical data viewer.
Bugfixes.
CLASS LIBRARIES in STARJAVA
ARRAY V0.2 (rebuild)
N-dimensional array manipulation and I/O
ASTGUI V1.1 (update)
AST specific UI components
AXIS V1.0b2 (rebuild)
Third generation Apache SOAP (new)
COCO V1.0 (rebuild)
Java UI for Coco (new)
DIVA V1.0-1 (update)
Interactive graphics classes
FITS V0.1 (rebuild)
STARJAVA-specific FITS access
HDS V0.1 (rebuild)
Non-native HDS utility classes
HDX V0.2 (rebuild)
A flexible, extensible, data model for astronomical images, tables
and other metadata
HELP V1.0 (rebuild)
Help support classes for Java applications
JAIUTIL V1.1 (rebuild)
Utility classes for JAI
JETTY V4.0.4 (rebuild)
HTTP Server and Servlet Container
JNIAST V3.4 (update)
Java Native interface to AST
JNIHDS V0.3 (rebuild)
Java Native Interface to HDS
JNIKAPPA V0.1 (new)
JNI wrapper for Starlink classic KAPPA
JPCS V0.1 (rebuild)
Java Parameter and Control System
JSKY V2.0 (rebuild)
Java Components for Astronomy
JUNIT V3.7 (rebuild)
Third party unit testing framework (junit.*)
MIRAGE V0.1 (rebuild)
Support classes for Bell Labs Mirage application
NDTOOLS V0.1 (rebuild)
Tasks for NDX and NDArray manipulation
NDX V0.2 (update)
N-dimensional astronomical object manipulation and I/O
PAL V1.0 (rebuild)
Positional Astronomy Library
RV V1.0 (rebuild)
Java UI for RV
SOAPSERVER V0.3 (update)
Embeddable SOAP server for applications
STARTASK V0.1 (new)
Run Starlink classic routines from Java
TASK V0.1 (rebuild)
Experimental parameter system
TABLE V2.0 (update)
Generic table manipulation and I/O
TAMFITS V0.96a (rebuild)
Third party basic FITS access (nom.tam.*)
UTIL V1.0 (rebuild)
Miscellaneous utility classes
VOTABLE V2.0 (rebuild)
VOTable I/O
The STARJAVA package can be considered to be independent of the standard
USSC, and is distributed separately with its own Java GUI installer. All
the STARJAVA applications and classes are distributed under the GPL
licence.
Updated STARJAVA Documentation
The SPLAT documentation (SUN/243.4) SPLAT - A Spectral Analysis Tool has
been updated and can be found in
/star/starjava/docs/splat/sun243.htx/sun243.html. It also appears in the
DOCS package and can be seen with the command, showme sun243.
SUN/251.3 - Getting Started with STARJAVA
JAVA/2 STARJAVA classes API
SUN/253.2 - TOPCAT - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
GAIA v2.8-0
This is a major release of GAIA (2.8.0) which can now display image
planes from data cubes. Using this you can step through along an axis
and display the image formed by the other two axes. You can also
combine a range of image planes or do the stepping using a timed
animation. The displayed images created by this tool can be analysed
just like any other image, but note the data format should be NDF for
good efficiency.
Other changes in this release:
- GAIA has been relinked against AST to fix a problem when the
presence of multiple possible astrometries in FITS headers
causes the image scale to be incorrectly estimated.
- Printing the "whole image" now works when repeated without exiting
GAIA.
- Incompatibilities in the WCS components of NDFs are now ignored (older
versions of AST cannot read newer encodings).
- A problem with coordinate readout coupling when using more than one
interactive slice or XY profile is being used.
- A error reading the CRPIX values in the blink/compare toolbox has been
fixed.
3 New infrastructure
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None.
3 Infrastructure updates
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There has been a number of infrastructure updates since the previous release.
3 Base set updates
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None.
3 Withdrawn Packages
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None.
3 New, updated or withdrawn documents
-----------------------------------
This section lists documents not directly related to particular packages that
have been updated or withdrawn. This section also contains details of
documents related to software not available on the CD-ROMs that have been
updated or withdrawn.
AST v3.4-5
AST provides a comprehensive range of facilities for attaching
world coordinate systems (such as RA/Dec, frequency, etc) to
astronomical data, for retrieving and interpreting that information
and for generating graphical output based on it.
The library should be of interest to anyone writing astronomical
software which needs to manipulate coordinate system data, especially
celestial coordinate systems. AST is portable and
environment-independent.
Main Changes in this Version
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o The Format attribute for simple Frames and SkyFrames has been
extended. It has always been possible, in both classes, to specify a
precision by including a dot in the Format value followed by an
integer (e.g. "dms.1" for a SkyFrame, or "%.10g" for a simple Frame).
The precision can now also be specified using an asterisk in place of
the integer (e.g. "dms.*" or "%.*g"). This causes the precision to be
derived on the basis of the Digits attribute value.
o The Plot class has been changed so that the default value used for the
Digits attribute is chosen to be the smallest value which results in no
pair of adjacent labels being identical. For instance, if an annotated
grid is being drawn describing a SkyFrame, and the Format(1) value is
set to "hms.*g" (the "g" causes field delimiters to be drawn as
superscripts), and the Digits(1) value is unset, then the seconds field
will have a number of decimal places which results in no pair of labels
being identical.
o Addition of a new FITS encoding, "FITS-CLASS", which uses the
conventions of the CLASS package (see
http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS/doc/html/class-html/class.html).
o Addition of a new class classed DSBSpecFrame. This is a
sub-class of SpecFrame which can be used to describe spectral axes
associated with dual sideband spectral data.
o The FitsChan class will now read headers which use the old "-GLS"
projection code, converting them to the corresponding modern "-SFL"
code, provided that the celestial axes are not rotated.
3 New documents
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* None
3 Updated documents
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* SUN/210.17 AST - World Coordinate System library (Fortran)
* SUN/211.17 AST - World Coordinate Systems library (C version)
3 Withdrawn documents
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* None
See the news items for each package for details of what is new and updated.
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