Hi all,
This announcement just went out. Forgive me if you receive it a couple
of times from various mailing lists. :-)
Cheers,
Brad.
Starlink Software Collection - "Lehuakona (Antares)" Release
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The Joint Astronomy Centre announces a new release of the Starlink
Software Collection.
Highlights of the "Lehuakona (Antares)" release include:
* AST is now thread-safe, and the SMURF applications MAKECUBE and
MAKEMAP have been modified to take advantage of this, leading to a
speed improvement on multi-core CPUs.
* ACSIS data reduction with ORAC-DR has been greatly improved.
Advanced recipes are now available by using the "-recsuffix ADV"
command-line option, producing better products than the standard
summit recipes.
* UNMAKECUBE is a new SMURF application that can be used to create
simulated time-series cubes from a given sky cube, using existing time-
series cubes as templates. This allows you to e.g. create a time-
series mask for individual time-series observations from a mask
created from a high signal-to-noise sky cube.
* Many other improvements and bug fixes.
For full release notes on individual packages, see: http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/release/
For further information, see: http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/
Support
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The Starlink Project was terminated in June 2005. The Starlink
Software Collection is being maintained by the JAC, with support from
STFC, for the benefit of our users. Bugs or feature requests
reproducible with UKIRT or JCMT data sets should be e-mailed to [log in to unmask]
where they will be attended to in priority order.
Non-JAC users are encouraged to report bugs to [log in to unmask]
where they may be attended to on a best-efforts basis by volunteers.
Open source developers wishing to send in patches or wanting access to
the SVN repository [log in to unmask]
Getting the software
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You can download tar files of the software collection for a number of
architectures from:
http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/download/
JAC currently runs 32- and 64-bit Linux operationally. Other platforms
are supported on a best efforts basis.
Licencing
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The bulk of the collection is distributed under the GNU Public Licence
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt), and the remainder under the old
Starlink Licence (http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/old-license.txt).
Refer to the code in individual packages for more information.
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