BABYL OPTIONS: -*- rmail -*- Version: 5 Labels: Note: This is the header of an rmail file. Note: If you are seeing it in rmail, Note: it means the file has no messages in it.  0, unseen,, *** EOOH *** Newsgroups: sci.astro Path: cv3.cv.nrao.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!Germany.EU.net!eso!gavila From: gavila@eso.org (Gerardo Avila) Subject: MIDAS: an Image Data Analysis System for PC/Linux. Message-ID: <1993Dec20.134957.13351@eso.org> Originator: gavila@mc6 Sender: news@eso.org Organization: ESO - European Southern Observatory, Garching by Munich Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 13:49:57 GMT Lines: 147 Received: from ns2.hq.eso.org by ns1.hq.eso.org (4.1/ eso-1.9) id AA00443; Mon, 20 Dec 93 12:17:14 +0100 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 12:17:13 +0100 From: Carlos Guirao Message-Id: <9312201117.AA00800@ns2.hq.eso.org> Received: by ns2.hq.eso.org (4.1/ eso-1.9) id AA00800; Mon, 20 Dec 93 12:17:13 +0100 To: gavila Status: RO MIDAS, an Image Data Analysis System for PC/Linux. -------------------------------------------------- The Munich Image Data Analysis System, ESO-MIDAS, developed and maintained by ESO, the European Southern Observatory, provides general tools for image processing and data reductions with emphasis on astronomical applications. A new release of ESO-MIDAS is distributed once a year (in November). The sources of ESO-MIDAS are available for VAX/VMS and all major UNIX systems, and are available to non-profit research institutions free of charge. It is mandatory to sign an explicit ESO-MIDAS User Agreement in order to get and install the ESO-MIDAS sources. User Agreements for ESO-MIDAS will have a duration of five year for non_profit research institutes with no reproduction charge whereas for other organizations a three year period with a reproduction charge will apply (currently DM 1000). Binary copies of ESO-MIDAS (already installed and without sources) for specific systems are publicly available in the anonymous ftp account and do not need the signing of an ESO-MIDAS User Agreement. Official user support and documentation service from ESO for these binary copies are however not granted without a prior signed User Agreement. Already available under the anonymous ftp account in ftphost.hq.eso.org (134.171.8.4) is the binary copy of the latest 93NOV release of ESO-MIDAS for Linux 0.99pl12 and pl13 on PCs. The files are located in the directory midaspub/linux, there is also a README file with instructions for a proper installation of ESO-MIDAS. ESO-MIDAS requests only a 386/486 CPU, Linux release 0.99pl12 or higher, a minimum of 16 Mybtes of and some disk space depending in the amount of data to work with. With shared libraries, the complete ESO-MIDAS system takes 27 Mbytes. There are also GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) for ESO-MIDAS, but distributed apart. They are based on Motif 1.2, but linked statically they do not need the Motif library. Documentation for the 93NOV release of ESO-MIDAS is currently only distributed in LaTex format. In January 1994 it will be also distributed in PostScript and dvi format (in PostSscript and dvi for the previous 92NOV release of ESO-MIDAS is however available now). Demo data to run the tutorials for different packages are distributed apart in the directory /midaspub/linux/demo. Besides the binary version for PC/Linux, ESO-MIDAS can be installed from sources in a wide base of platforms, like SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x, HP-UX/9000, IBM PS/6000, DEC-Ultrix(MIPS), DEC VAX/VMS, DEC OPEN/VMS(APX), Silicon Graphics (Indigo), and a beta-test version for DEC OSF/1 is expected to be available in the spring of 1994. Optional packages available in ESO-MIDAS: Application packages: ===================== DISPLAY: Additional routines to interact with the image display. FIT: This package provides tools to model image and table data by fitting non-linear functions, using least square approximation. GENERAL: Contains general purpose image processing routines. PLOT: Contains graphics plot routines. STATIST: Tools for statistical tests on tables:Comparison of empirical distribution with theoretical distribution, Comparison of independent data samples, Measurement of correlation, etc.. TABLE: General purpose tables routines like binning and averaging of table columns. Standard Reduction Packages: ============================ ASTRO: Contains routines to do astrometry and for the OPTOPUS instrument. CCD: The package supports fully CCD automatic reductions. Functionalities include are: over-scan correction, trimming, bad pixel correction, bias correction, dark correction, flat fielding, illumination correction, and fringing correction. DO: A Data Organizer package based in the MIDAS Table File System. ECHELLE: A package for the calibration of echelle spectra. IRAC2: A package for the reduction of IRAC2 data. IRSPEC: A standard-reduction package for the calibration of IRSPEC spectra. LONG: A standard-reduction package for the reduction of long slit spectra. MOS: A standard-reduction package dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. OPTOPUS: A package that enables conventional use of the Boller and Chivens spectrograph to be extended to simultaneous spectroscopy of multiple or large extended objects. PISCO: A package for the reduction of PISCO (ESO Polarimeter with Instrumental and Sky COmpensation, a two-channel polarimeter using photon counting and available on the ESO/MPI 2.2-mter telescope. SPEC: A standard-reduction package for the reduction of mono-dimensional spectral data. Packages with GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces): =============================================== XALICE: A MOTIF based graphical user interface that allows interactive manipulation of spectral data. XDISPLAY: A MOTIF based graphical user interface providing access to the Display related commands XHELP: A MOTIF based graphical user interface providing access to the MIDAS help files. XLONG,XIDENT,XBATCH: A MOTIF based graphical user interfaces providing access to the MIDAS commands of the spectroscopy context Long. Contribution packages: ====================== CLOUD: This package provides tools for modelling interstellar or inter-galactic features on an initial polynomial continuum which may also contain emission lines. DAOPHOT: Is a package to obtain precise photometry and astrometric positions for stellar objects in two-dimensional digital images. GEOTEST: This package contains routines to create geometric test images as well as other artificial images (Julia, Mandelbrot sets). IMRES: Contains programs related to image restoration (Lucy algorithim) INVENTORY: Is a package to detect and classify objects into stars, galaxies and defects. IUE: An application to read tapes from the IUE project, a general-user Space Observatory for high- and low-resolution spectroscopy between 115 nm and 320 nm. MVA: Multivariate Data Analysis. PEPSYS: A set of programs for planning and reducing photometry. ROMAFOT: A package for stellar photometry, in particular in crowded fields. SURPHOT: Collection of various programs useful to do surface photometry. TSA: A package with MIDAS commands for analysis of astronomical time series. WAVELET: A package for the wavelet transform. HST: MIDAS procedures for HST (Hubble Space Telescope) data reduction. References in ESO Publications: - The ESO Messenger. Num. 74 December 1993. - The MIDAS-Courier. Newsletter of the MIDAS Users' Community. (Also available in PostScript format with ftp in /midaspub/courier) More information about ESO-MIDAS: midas@eso.org