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• Increasing the visibility of NASA software

  Until this week, a search in ADS for doctype:"software" keyword:"NASA" returned zero results. NASA has funded the ASCL to make its astronomy research software discoverable in ASCL and ADS. This required changes to the ASCL structure and the ADS data feed, and edits to some current records; it also entails mining various NASA software sites for codes that meet the ASCL's criteria and creating appropriately tagged entries for them. In the first phase of the project, started in July, our wonderful developer Judy Schmidt (@SpaceGeck) worked her magic on our infrastructure, keywords have been added to some existing records, and ADS has ingested the first entries we’ve tagged with the NASA keyword. We can now see first results from this two-year project:

  
  Additional changes will be coming to the ASCL in the coming months as we continue this funded work. We love this project; at its core, it's a simple concept, and leverages existing resources (ADS, various NASA code sites, and ASCL) to make research software more discoverable and provides information about NASA software that was not readily available before. It furthers the excellent work NASA has been doing to release software, demonstrates yet another value of ADS (which has many superpowers!), and makes the ASCL more useful, too.

  This entry was posted in codes, news on October 12, 2018 by Alice Allen.
• September 2018 additions to the ASCL

  Sixteen codes were added to the ASCL in September 2018:

  dynesty: Dynamic Nested Sampling package
  Isca: Idealized global circulation modeling
  LEMON: Differential photometry pipeline
  MrMoose: Multi-Resolution Multi-Object/Origin Spectral Energy distribution fitting procedure

  NEBULA: Radiative transfer code of ionized nebulae at radio wavelengths
  nestcheck: Nested sampling calculations analysis
  PASTA: Python Astronomical Stacking Tool Array
  PCCDPACK: Polarimetry with CCD

  perfectns: "Perfect" dynamic and standard nested sampling for spherically symmetric likelihoods and priors
  PyQSOFit: Python code to fit the spectrum of quasars
  qp: Quantile parametrization for probability distribution functions
  RequiSim: Variance weighted overlap calculator

  spops: Spinning black-hole binary population synthesis
  stepped_luneburg: Stacked-based ray tracing code to model a stepped Luneburg lens
  surfinBH: Surrogate final black hole properties for mergers of binary black holes
  VBBINARYLENSING: Microlensing light-curve computation

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on October 4, 2018 by Alice Allen.
• August 2018 additions to the ASCL

  Eleven codes were added to the ASCL in August 2018:

  2DSF: Vectorized Structure Function Algorithm
  Barycorrpy: Barycentric velocity calculation and leap second management
  CPF: Corral Pipeline Framework
  Fips: An OpenGL based FITS viewer
  hfof: Friends-of-Friends via spatial hashing

  hi_class: Horndeski in the Cosmic Linear Anisotropy Solving System
  ImPlaneIA: Image Plane Approach to Interferometric Analysis
  py-sdm: Support Distribution Machines
  PyMieDap: Python Mie Doubling Adding Program
  Robbie: Radio transients and variables detection workflow

  rsigma: Resonant disturbance

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on September 5, 2018 by Alice Allen.
• July 2018 additions to the ASCL

  Thirty-three codes were added to the ASCL in July 2018:

  AngPow: Fast computation of accurate tomographic power spectra
  ARKCoS: Radial kernel convolution on the sphere
  ASP: Ames Stereo Pipeline
  BARYCORR: Python interface for barycentric RV correction
  CAESAR: Compact And Extended Source Automated Recognition

  CLASSgal: Relativistic cosmological large scale structure code
  DAMOCLES: Monte Carlo line radiative transfer code
  EVEREST: Tools for de-trending stellar photometry
  GLS: Generalized Lomb-Scargle periodogram
  HELIOS: Radiative transfer code for exoplanetary atmospheres

  HII-CHI-mistry_UV: Oxygen abundance and ionizionation parameters for ultraviolet emission lines
  HII-CHI-mistry: Oxygen abundance and ionizionation parameters for optical emission lines
  kplr: Tools for working with Kepler data using Python
  ktransit: Exoplanet transit modeling tool in python
  LSC: Supervised classification of time-series variable stars

  MAPPINGS V: Astrophysical plasma modeling code
  MIDLL: Markwardt IDL Library
  nfield: Stochastic tool for QFT on inflationary backgrounds
  NRPy+: Code generator for Numerical Relativity
  POLARIS: POLArized RadIation Simulator

  POWER: Python Open-source Waveform ExtractoR
  PUMA: Low-frequency radio catalog cross-matching
  PyAutoLens: Strong lens modeling
  pyqz: Emission line code
  SENR: Simple, Efficient Numerical Relativity

  SPEGID: Single-Pulse Event Group IDentification
  SSMM: Slotted Symbolic Markov Modeling for classifying variable star signatures
  TBI: Three-Body Integration
  THOR: Global Circulation Model for planetary atmospheres
  Warpfield: Winds And Radiation Pressure: Feedback Induced Expansion, colLapse and Dissolution

  wdmerger: Simulate white dwarf mergers with CASTRO
  xGDS: Exploration Ground Data Systems
  ZBARYCORR: Barycentric redshift calculator

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on August 9, 2018 by Alice Allen.
• June 2018 additions to the ASCL

  Thirty-two codes were added to the ASCL in June 2018:

  ASPIC: Accurate Slow-roll Predictions for Inflationary Cosmology
  BHDD: Primordial black hole binaries code
  BRATS: Broadband Radio Astronomy ToolS
  BWED: Brane-world extra dimensions
  DirectDM-mma: Dark matter direct detection

  DirectDM-py: Dark matter direct detection
  EXO-NAILER: EXOplanet traNsits and rAdIal veLocity fittER
  exoinformatics: Compute the entropy of a planetary system's size-ordering
  fcmaker: Creating ESO-compliant finding charts for Observing Blocks on p2
  feets: feATURE eXTRACTOR FOR tIME sERIES

  foxi: Forecast Observations and their eXpected Information
  GLASS: Parallel, free-form gravitational lens modeling tool and framework
  gsf: galactic structure finder
  Indri: Pulsar population synthesis toolset
  Keras: The Python Deep Learning library

  LASR: Linear Algorithm for Significance Reduction
  OMEGA: One-zone Model for the Evolution of GAlaxies
  P2DFFT: Parallelized technique for measuring galactic spiral arm pitch angles
  pile-up: Monte Carlo simulations of star-disk torques on hot Jupiters
  pwv_kpno: Modeling atmospheric absorption

  PyAMOR: AMmOnia data Reduction
  PyMUSE: VLT/MUSE data analyzer
  pyZELDA: Python code for Zernike wavefront sensors
  QE: Quantum opEn-Source Package for Research in Electronic Structure, Simulation, and Optimization
  RadFil: Radial density profile builder for interstellar filaments

  RMextract: Ionospheric Faraday Rotation calculator
  SpaghettiLens: Web-based gravitational lens modeling tool
  Spheral++: Coupled hydrodynamical and gravitational numerical simulations
  SpS: Single-pulse Searcher
  SYGMA: Modeling stellar yields for galactic modeling

  WDEC: White Dwarf Evolution Code
  WiseView: Visualizing motion and variability of faint WISE sources

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on July 3, 2018 by Alice Allen.
• Linking literature and software

  Most ASCL code entries have one or more links to articles that either describe or use the software in that entry. ADS ingests this information to associate the code with relevant literature. For example, the entry for 2LPTIC: 2nd-order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory Initial Conditions includes a link for an MNRAS paper in the Appears in field:

  
  Going to the ADS entry for this software shows that the code is associated with a paper under Associated Articles:This, however, doesn't tell you anything about the relationship between the article and the software. ADS and the ASCL have been working to improve this. The ASCL has been disambiguating these article links into Described in and Used in. At the ADS Hack Day event last month, ASCL provided ADS with disambiguated links for over 900 entries, and Carolyn Grant had these uploaded into ADS in a matter of minutes. (ADS folks are wizards, I tell you! Wizards! They work magic!!)

  Currently, ASCL records appear the same, but for those records we have provided disambiguated article links, ADS displayed them as Described in and Used in, as you can see in the 2-DUST: Dust radiative transfer code entry, for which the ASCL lists two papers:

  For ASCL records in which the Appears in link(s) have not been disambiguated, there is no change in how they are displayed in ADS. We have over 700 entries with article links still to be disambiguated and we continue this work; ADS will be ingesting the changes with their regular weekly ingest of ASCL data.

  This entry was posted in codes, news on June 13, 2018 by Alice Allen.
• May 2018 additions to the ASCL

  Thirty-two codes were added to the ASCL in May 2018:

  3DCORE: Forward modeling of solar storm magnetic flux ropes for space weather prediction
  AGAMA: Action-based galaxy modeling framework
  Arcmancer: Geodesics and polarized radiative transfer library
  ASTROPOP: ASTROnomical Polarimetry and Photometry pipeline
  BCcodes: Bolometric Corrections and Synthetic Stellar Photometry

  BinMag: Widget for comparing stellar observed with theoretical spectra
  CUBE: Information-optimized parallel cosmological N-body simulation code
  CubiCal: Suite for fast radio interferometric calibration
  DeepMoon: Convolutional neural network trainer to identify moon craters
  dftools: Distribution function fitting

  EARL: Exoplanet Analytic Reflected Lightcurves package
  exocartographer: Constraining surface maps orbital parameters of exoplanets
  GLACiAR: GaLAxy survey Completeness AlgoRithm
  grid-model: Semi-numerical reionization code
  HENDRICS: High ENergy Data Reduction Interface from the Command Shell

  lcps: Light curve pre-selection
  MontePython 3: Parameter inference code for cosmology
  OSS: OSSOS Survey Simulator
  PampelMuse: Crowded-field 3D spectroscopy
  PoMiN: A Post-Minkowskian N-Body Solver

  powerbox: Arbitrarily structured, arbitrary-dimension boxes and log-normal mocks
  PROM7: 1D modeler of solar filaments or prominences
  PyCBC: Gravitational-wave data analysis toolkit
  PyCCF: Python Cross Correlation Function for reverberation mapping studies
  PySE: Python Source Extractor for radio astronomical images

  SNSEDextend: SuperNova Spectral Energy Distributions extrapolation toolkit
  SP_Ace: Stellar Parameters And Chemical abundances Estimator
  STARBLADE: STar and Artefact Removal with a Bayesian Lightweight Algorithm from Diffuse Emission
  StarSmasher: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code for smashing stars and planets
  StePS: Stereographically Projected Cosmological Simulations

  SWIFT: SPH With Inter-dependent Fine-grained Tasking
  xspec_emcee: XSPEC-friendly interface for the emcee package

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on June 3, 2018 by Alice Allen.
• April 2018 additions to the ASCL

  Twenty-six codes were added to the ASCL in April 2018:

  3DView: Space physics data visualizer
  Agatha: Disentangling period signals from correlated noise in a periodogram framework
  allantools: Allan deviation calculation
  APPHi: Automated Photometry Pipeline for High Cadence, Large Volume Data
  ASERA: A Spectrum Eye Recognition Assistant

  AstroCV: Astronomy computer vision library
  CAT-PUMA: CME Arrival Time Prediction Using Machine learning Algorithms
  chroma: Chromatic effects for LSST weak lensing
  DaCHS: Data Center Helper Suite
  DESCQA: Synthetic Sky Catalog Validation Framework

  DPPP: Default Pre-Processing Pipeline
  EGG: Empirical Galaxy Generator
  FastChem: An ultra-fast equilibrium chemistry
  IMNN: Information Maximizing Neural Networks
  ipole: Semianalytic scheme for relativistic polarized radiative transport

  KSTAT: KD-tree Statistics Package
  Lenstronomy: Multi-purpose gravitational lens modelling software package
  LFlGRB: Luminosity function of long gamma-ray bursts
  LFsGRB: Binary neutron star merger rate via the luminosity function of short gamma-ray bursts
  NR-code: Nonlinear reconstruction code

  orbit-estimation: Fast orbital parameters estimator
  ProFound: Source Extraction and Application to Modern Survey Data
  SMERFS: Stochastic Markov Evaluation of Random Fields on the Sphere
  surrkick: Black-hole kicks from numerical-relativity surrogate models
  UniDAM: Unified tool to estimate Distances, Ages, and Masses

  ViSBARD: Visual System for Browsing, Analysis and Retrieval of Data

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on May 2, 2018 by Alice Allen.
• March 2018 additions to the ASCL

  Fifteen codes were added in March 2018:

  3D-PDR: Three-dimensional photodissociation region code
  CIFOG: Cosmological Ionization Fields frOm Galaxies
  DaMaSCUS-CRUST: Dark Matter Simulation Code for Underground Scatterings - Crust Edition
  ExoCross: Spectra from molecular line lists
  ExtLaw_H18: Extinction law code

  FAST: Fitting and Assessment of Synthetic Templates
  IMAGINE: Interstellar MAGnetic field INference Engine
  Kadenza: Kepler/K2 Raw Cadence Data Reader
  LWPC: Long Wavelength Propagation Capability
  MulensModel: Microlensing light curves modeling

  nanopipe: Calibration and data reduction pipeline for pulsar timing
  optBINS: Optimal Binning for histograms
  RAPTOR: Imaging code for relativistic plasmas in strong gravity
  scarlet: Source separation in multi-band images by Constrained Matrix Factorization
  SETI-EC: SETI Encryption Code

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on April 2, 2018 by Alice Allen.
• February 2018 additions to the ASCL

  Sixteen codes were added in February 2018:

  AntiparticleDM: Discriminating between Majorana and Dirac Dark Matter
  ARTIP: Automated Radio Telescope Image Processing Pipeline
  astroplan: Observation planning package for astronomers
  BHMcalc: Binary Habitability Mechanism Calculator

  CMacIonize: Monte Carlo photoionisation and moving-mesh radiation hydrodynamics
  collapse: Spherical-collapse model code
  eqpair: Electron energy distribution calculator
  FAC: Flexible Atomic Code

  Glimpse: Sparsity based weak lensing mass-mapping tool
  HiGal_SED_Fitter: SED fitting tools for Herschel Hi-Gal data
  mrpy: Renormalized generalized gamma distribution for HMF and galaxy ensemble properties comparisons
  PyOSE: Orbital sampling effect (OSE) simulator

  runDM: Running couplings of Dark Matter to the Standard Model
  venice: Mask utility
  Verne: Earth-stopping effect for heavy dark matter
  VISIBLE: VISIbility Based Line Extraction

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on March 5, 2018 by Alice Allen.