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• ASCL poster at ADASS XXV

  The Astrophysics Source Code Library, started in 1999, moved to a new infrastructure in 2014 with enhancements developed in response to feedback from users and publishers. With one-click author search, flexible browsing options, and a simple form-based submission process, the ASCL offers a better experience for users. Since the introduction of the new platform in mid-2014, users have submitted nearly 100 codes, more than in all previous years combined. Data sharing options, including the ability to pull all of the resource’s public data in JSON and XML, provide new ways to collaborate with the resource. The ASCL now houses information on more than 1000 codes and its entries are increasingly used for citation, with over 15% of its entries cited, up from 7.5% in January of last year. Exciting opportunities to collaborate have been presented to the ASCL, including participation in the 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences and a request from the AAS to form a special interest group on software publishing. This presentation will demonstrate the new capabilities of the ASCL and discuss its growth and recent outreach and collaborations.

  Alice Allen, Astrophysics Source Code Library; G. Bruce Berriman, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology; Kimberly DuPrie, Space Telescope Science Institute/Astrophysics Source Code Library; Jessica Mink, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Robert Nemiroff, Michigan Technological University; Judy Schmidt, Astrophysics Source Code Library; Lior Shamir, Lawrence Technological University; Keith Shortridge, Australian Astronomical Observatory; Mark Taylor, University of Bristol; Peter Teuben, Astronomy Department, University of Maryland; John Wallin, Middle Tennessee State University

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  This entry was posted in ADASS, conferences, poster on October 25, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• ASCL Advisory Committee changes

  Earlier this month, Robert Hanisch stepped down as an adviser on the ASCL's Advisory Committee (AC); we are grateful for his service to the ASCL and thank him for his assistance.

  Thomas Robitaille from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has joined the AC. He brings with him a wealth of experience as a software author, having developed Hyperion and APLpy; he's also work on Glue and AstroPy and other astronomy software. We are delighted to have his input!

  This entry was posted in news, people on October 24, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• Suggest a change or addition to a record

  Have you found an error in an ASCL entry? Is there a paper using your code you'd like to add? Would you like to specify right in an ASCL entry how your code should be cited?

  We have added a "Suggest a change or addition" link to every code entry in the ASCL. This link brings up a form that is similar to the Submissions form and allows you to not only request changes to fields currently displayed, but also enter information for fields we are considering adding.

  For example, we would like to disambiguate the URLs for refereed papers into those that describe a code and those that use a code; we'd also like to add categories to make searching for codes easier.

   

   

   

   

  Something that's been on our wish list for a while is a "see also" feature, one that identifies, for a particular code, codes having a similar function or that someone looking at that code would likely be interested in, too. All we need to do this are the data!

  Last update: July 20, 2021

  This entry was posted in codes, news on October 14, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• September 2015 additions to the ASCL

  Ten codes were added to the ASCL in September 2015:

  AFR (ASPFitsReader): A pulsar FITS file reader and analysis package
  FalconIC: Initial conditions generator for cosmological N-body simulations in Newtonian, Relativistic and Modified theories
  FARGO3D: Hydrodynamics/magnetohydrodynamics code
  GFARGO: FARGO for GPU
  OPERA: Objective Prism Enhanced Reduction Algorithms

  Tempo: Pulsar timing data analysis
  TRUVOT: True Background Technique for the Swift UVOT Grisms
  pycola: N-body COLA method code
  PyCS: Python Curve Shifting
  XSHPipelineManager: Python Wrapper for the VLT/X-shooter Data Reduction Pipeline

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on October 10, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• Which journals have citations to ASCL entries...

  ... and which journals have the most?

  I had software citations on my mind all last week, as the 3rd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3) was held last Monday and Tuesday in Boulder, CO, and I spent a good bit of my time there in the work group for Hacking the credit and citation ecosystem (making it work, or work better, for software). This made me curious as to which journals have citations to ASCL entries, and which have the most citations to ASCL entries. I was pretty sure I knew the answer to the latter, but it's always good to test what one knows. So I went looking, and this what I found...

  These three journals and arXiv hold 84% of citations to ASCL entries:

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  The Astrophysical Journal
  ArXiv e-prints
  Astronomy and Astrophysics

  Other publications with citations to the ASCL include:

  The Astronomical Journal Astronomy and Computing The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology Computer Physics Communications Galaxies Icarus Journal of Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics Journal of Physics Conference Series

  Journal of Physics G Nuclear Physics The Messenger Physical Review C Physical Review D Physical Review Letters Physics Uspekhi Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica

  Proceedings, too, including:

  18th European White Dwarf Workshop 19th European Workshop on White Dwarfs Astronomical Society of India Conference Series Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae VI Conference

  EAS Publications Series IAU Symposium SF2A-2014: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series

  I appreciate ADS all over again for making it possible to compile this information so quickly.

  This entry was posted in codes, stats, WSSSPE on October 6, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• Months away, but AAS 227 Kissimmee meeting is already software rich!

  Already it's shaping up to be a software maven's dream AAS meeting, with workshops and Special Sessions focused on expanding your software skills and a Hack Day to put them to use! We'll have a comprehensive listing closer to the meeting date, but here are the activities already on the schedule, with more to come!

  Introduction to Software Carpentry 2 Day Workshop
  Astrostatistics and R
  Using Python for Astronomical Data Analysis
  SciCoder Presents: Developing Larger Software Projects
  Bayesian Methods in Astronomy: Hands-on Statistics
  Tools and Tips for Better Software (aka Pain Reduction for Code Authors)
  Lectures in AstroStatistics
  Hack Day

  This entry was posted in AAS, best practices, conferences, presentations on September 27, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• August 2015 additions to the ASCL

  Ten codes were added to the ASCL in August 2015:

  ColorPro: PSF-corrected aperture-matched photometry
  FRELLED: FITS Realtime Explorer of Low Latency in Every Dimension
  HMcode: Halo-model matter power spectrum computation
  NGMIX: Gaussian mixture models for 2D images
  NICOLE: NLTE Stokes Synthesis/Inversion Code

  REDUCEME: Long-slit spectroscopic data reduction and analysis
  SExSeg: SExtractor segmentation
  SHDOM: Spherical Harmonic Discrete Ordinate Method for Atmospheric Radiative Transfer
  TreeCorr: Two-point correlation functions
  Trilogy: FITS image conversion software

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on September 2, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• Old ASCL site sails into sunset on or about September 4

  In July 2014, the ASCL moved to its current infrastructure; we left the older site up to give those who use the ASCL time to adjust to the new site and change their bookmarks. Now it's time -- some might say high time! -- that the previous site be retired. On or about September 4, the old ASCL site, both the WordPress site and the discussion forum housing the code entries, will no longer be accessible. All code entries housed on the old site will redirect to the entries here, and other pages will redirect to ascl.net. If you have questions or concerns about this change, please comment below or email me at aallen@ascl.net. Thank you!

  This entry was posted in news on August 28, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• Change to the Code Record page

  From feedback we received about the "Ref" field, we've relabeled that field to lessen the confusion about the article link(s) in the Code Record. What had appeared is:

  

  What now appears is:
  
  We supply a link, too, to a page that explains what the Website, Appears in, and Bibcode fields are, and hope this makes things clearer.

  If you have suggestions for the ASCL, please feel free to post them here or email editor@ascl.net. Thank you!

   

  This entry was posted in codes, news on August 1, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• July 2015 additions to the ASCL

  Twenty codes were added to the ASCL in July 2015:

  3D-Barolo: 3D fitting tool for the kinematics of galaxies
  abo-cross: Hydrogen broadening cross-section calculator
  Astrochem: Abundances of chemical species in the interstellar medium
  AstroStat: Statistical analysis tool
  DALI: Derivative Approximation for LIkelihoods

  DRAMA: Instrumentation software environment
  FAT: Fully Automated TiRiFiC
  getsources: Multi-scale, multi-wavelength source extraction
  HLINOP: Hydrogen LINe OPacity in stellar atmospheres
  IEHI: Ionization Equilibrium for Heavy Ions

  K-Inpainting: Inpainting for Kepler
  L-PICOLA: Fast dark matter simulation code
  Least Asymmetry: Centering Method
  Pelican: Pipeline for Extensible, Lightweight Imaging and CAlibratioN
  PPInteractions: Secondary particle spectra from proton-proton interactions

  pyro: Python-based tutorial for computational methods for hydrodynamics
  REDSPEC: NIRSPEC data reduction
  slimplectic: Discrete non-conservative numerical integrator
  SUPERBOX: Particle-multi-mesh code to simulate galaxies
  Toyz: Large datasets and astronomical images analysis framework

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on August 1, 2015 by Alice Allen.