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Title

Alternative Astronomical Software Packages
Author

M. R. Pérez
Journal / Anthology

Astrophysics and Space Science
Year: 1998
Volume: 258
Page range: 271-284
Description

At a time when the United Nations, in collaboration with Wolfram Research, has selected the Mathematica software package to inform developing countries about available scientific tools, it is important to review other choices of software being used by active scientists around the world For observational astronomers with large volumes of digital data to be analyzed, the main challenges are data reductions, image handling, model comparisons, interactive fits, data simulations and visualizations, etc. There are several good alternative software packages such as: AIPS, IRAF, MIDAS, and IDL.
Subjects

*Applied Mathematics > Visualization
*Science > Astronomy