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Re: Starlink updates, STARJAVA, AST and GAIA (fwd)

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Starlink Software Librarian <[log in to unmask]>

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Starlink development <[log in to unmask]>

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Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:00:15 +0000

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All,

Updated NEWS file.

Steve.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
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 ============================================ 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 ======= 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 ------------------- 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: -------------- 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 --------------------------- 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 ============================== 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 ------ Starlink Software Librarian - [log in to unmask] 2 USSC219B 2004 Highlights: ========================= 3 New Applications: ----------------- None. 3 Updated Applications: --------------------- 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 ------------------ None. 3 Infrastructure updates ---------------------- There has been a number of infrastructure updates since the previous release. 3 Base set updates ---------------- None. 3 Withdrawn Packages ------------------ 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 ---------------------------- 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 ------------- * None 3 Updated documents ----------------- * SUN/210.17 AST - World Coordinate System library (Fortran) * SUN/211.17 AST - World Coordinate Systems library (C version) 3 Withdrawn documents ------------------- * None See the news items for each package for details of what is new and updated.

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