AstroPack (a.k.a. MAATv2)

Astronomy, Astrophysics, & Image Processing Software Pacakge

Main Developers: Eran Ofek, Chen Tishler, Yossi Shvartzvald, Amir Sharon, Dan Elhanati, Noam Segev (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Installation:

1. git clone
2. git checkout dev1
3. From matlab: edit manuals.Install, and follow the instructions.

For detailed installtion instruction, see the Install wiki page.

Credit:

Please cite:

1. Ofek (2014);
2. Soumagnac and Ofek (2018); );
3. Ofek (2019);
4. Ofek et al., in prep.

Getting started and documntation

See getting started wiki page, or from matlab: edit manuals.GettingStarted, and the inspect the content of the manuals package.

Documentation is available in the github wiki page, or in matlab, after installtion, in the manuals package.

Content

A collection of several thousands functions for astronomy, astrophysics, and image processing applications. The following topics are covered:

Astronomical Image Processing

Celestial coordinates

Celestial mechanics

Virtual Observatory excess

Large catalogs and catsHTM

Statistics

Telescopes and Optics

Spectra and filters

Time series analysis

Cosmology

Gravitational lensing

General utilities