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One Day Mini-Workshop
on AdsLabs, Topcat and WorldWide
Telescopes
IPM (Larak), School of Astronomy (SoA)
By: Mohaddesseh Azimlu (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics)
Sunday / 25-December-2011 / 4-Dey-1390/ (10-12 AM and 1-3 PM)
Dear Participants,
Please kindly
have your Laptops with the installed Topcat and ds9. Topcat and
ds9 are both available on Linux, Mac-Os and Windows. You can
find more details about the mini-workshop below. Please
distribute this email to everyone who is interested.
1- AdsLabs: It
helps to customize search in scientific published articles. the
classic adsabs.harvard.edu is a very useful tool itself but ads
lab has added more options to customize the search in particular
subjects and authors. It also needs access to internet.
http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/wiki/doku.php
2- TopCat: A very user friendly
package to visualize and handle large datasets. Topcat needs to
be downloaded and installed in advance:
http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/wiki/doku.php
3- ds9: if you are not using it
already, please download and install this very useful data
visualization package:
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/
For those who
are interested in more packages for personal use:
4-World Wide
Telescope: general info on how to get information from this cool
tool, real data from world class telescopes, but mostly designed
for public, education and outreach activities. It contains
beautiful demos and graphically is very impressive.
The 3D version only works on windows
machines now but the web client is also interesting enough. It
needs to have access to high speed internet:
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx
If you are
using windows, please download and install it.
5- TopCat: A
very user friendly package to visualize and handle large
datasets. Topcat needs to be downloaded and installed in
advance:
http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/wiki/doku.php
For those who
are interested in more packages for personal use:
4-
starlink-Namaka package: that was the one I had in mind first,
but probably more useful for those who are already involved with
data reduction. This starling package contains many cool tools
for image and spectrum data reduction. I has collected several
different packages in only one tool, for example you can
visualize different types of images, make contours, detect
objects, get the statistics in selected regions, look at 3D data
files and many other useful tasks for professionals.
It needs to be downloaded and
installed in advance and it is a little tricky to get it run
completely:
http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/starlink/Namaka
5- There are
several other data mining tools that can be found here, but the
link is just introduced for those who are interested:
http://readthedocs.org/docs/vodays/en/boston2011.1/tutorials/tutorials.html
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