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• ASCL poster at ADASS

  

  Abstract: The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free online registry of codes used in astronomy research; it currently contains over 900 codes and is indexed by ADS. The ASCL has recently moved a new infrastructure into production. The new site provides a true database for the code entries and integrates the WordPress news and information pages and the discussion forum into one site. Previous capabilities are retained and permalinks to ascl.net continue to work. The site offers more functionality and flexibility than the previous site, is easier to maintain, and offers new possibilities for collaboration. This presentation covers these recent changes to the ASCL.

  Authors: Robert Hanisch (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
  Alice Allen (Astrophysics Source Code Library)
  Bruce Berriman (Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology)
  Kimberly Duprie (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  Jessica Mink (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
  Robert Nemiroff (Michigan Technological University)
  Lior Shamir (Lawrence Technological University)
  Keith Shortridge (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
  Mark Taylor (University of Bristol)
  Peter Teuben (University of Maryland)
  John Wallin (Middle Tennessee State University)

  This entry was posted in ADASS, conferences, news, poster on October 5, 2014 by Alice Allen.
• ADASS opens this evening with a welcome reception

  The 24th Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) meeting starts this evening at the Westin Hotel in Calgary, Canada. Talks start tomorrow afternoon; the opening sessions are focused on Big Data Challenges, which is such a big topic it has to be continued on Monday morning.

  Though the ASCL editors are not attending ADASS this year, most of the Advisory Committee is (Peter Teuben, Bruce Berriman, Bob Hanisch, Jessica Mink, Keith Shortridge, and Mark Taylor) and Bob Hanisch has a poster on the ASCL's recent changes to hang.

  You can follow ADASS on Twitter @astroADASS, and tomorrow, we'll post the ASCL poster here.

  This entry was posted in ADASS, conferences, people, poster on October 5, 2014 by Alice Allen.
• September 2014 additions to the ASCL

  Thirteen codes were added to the ASCL in September:

  CHLOE: A tool for automatic detection of peculiar galaxies
  CosmoSIS: Cosmological parameter estimation
  IM3SHAPE: Maximum likelihood galaxy shear measurement code for cosmic gravitational lensing
  IFSFIT: Spectral Fitting for Integral Field Spectrographs
  IFSRED: Data Reduction for Integral Field Spectrographs

  iSpec: Stellar atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances
  LANL*: Radiation belt drift shell modeling
  mixT: single-temperature fit for a multi-component thermal plasma
  Nahoon: Time-dependent gas-phase chemical model
  ORBS: A reduction software for SITELLE and SpiOMM data

  rmfit: Forward-folding spectral analysis software
  Slim: Numerical data compression for scientific data sets
  Tsyganenko Geomagnetic Field Models

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes on October 3, 2014 by Alice Allen.
• Working towards Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences

  The 2nd Working towards Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences workshop (WSSSPE) will be held in New Orleans on Sunday, November 16. The community was invited to submit short actionable papers for use in designing the workshop.

  Getting a community to adopt better practices doesn't usually happen overnight. The ASCL has looked at previous efforts to create code libraries or registries to try to find common barriers that may have inhibited widespread use of these services; the ASCL also has looked to specific management techniques adapted from business practice to encourage change. These findings and change management strategies are discussed in our #WSSSPE 2 paper.

  The WSSSPE site lists all of the freely downloadable accepted papers.

  This entry was posted in conferences, news, WSSSPE on September 22, 2014 by Alice Allen.
• ASCL in Computer

  The cover feature this month of the IEEE's flagship journal Computer is Computing in Astronomy. Its "Applications and Examples" includes a short article (behind a paywall) describing the ASCL.

  This entry was posted in news on September 17, 2014 by Alice Allen.
• ASCL at ADASS 2014

  The ASCL will have a poster at the upcoming ADASS meeting in Calgary on the recent enhancements to the site.

  This entry was posted in ADASS, conferences on September 8, 2014 by Alice Allen.
• August 2014 additions to the ASCL

  Twenty-three codes were added to the ASCL in August:

  APS: Active Parameter Searching
  bamr: Bayesian analysis of mass and radius observations
  CosmoPhotoz: Photometric redshift estimation using generalized linear models
  GALAPAGOS-C: Galaxy Analysis over Large Areas
  GALIC: Galaxy initial conditions construction

  HEAsoft: Unified Release of FTOOLS and XANADU
  IIPImage: Large-image visualization
  Imfit: A Fast, Flexible Program for Astronomical Image Fitting
  LIA: LWS Interactive Analysis
  LightcurveMC: An extensible lightcurve simulation program

  NumCosmo: Numerical Cosmology
  O2scl: Object-oriented scientific computing library
  PhotoRApToR: PHOTOmetric Research APplication TO Redshifts
  PIA: ISOPHOT Interactive Analysis
  pieflag: CASA task to efficiently flag bad data

  POET: Planetary Orbital Evolution due to Tides
  RDGEN: Routines for data handling, display, and adjusting
  Skycorr: Sky emission subtraction for observations without plain sky information
  SPAM: Source Peeling and Atmospheric Modeling
  VisiOmatic: Celestial image viewer

  VPFIT: Voigt profile fitting program
  vpguess: Fitting multiple Voigt profiles to spectroscopic data
  WSClean: Widefield interferometric imager

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes on September 2, 2014 by Alice Allen.
• July 2014 additions to the ASCL

  Twenty codes were added to the ASCL in July:

  AstroML: Machine learning and data mining in astronomy
  ASTRORAY: General relativistic polarized radiative transfer code
  BayesFlare: Bayesian method for detecting stellar flares
  Brut: Automatic bubble classifier
  CLE: Coronal line synthesis

  e-MERLIN data reduction pipeline
  Exopop: Exoplanet population inference
  EZ_Ages: Stellar population age calculator
  Halogen: Multimass spherical structure models for N-body simulations
  kungifu: Calibration and reduction of fiber-fed IFU astronomical spectroscopy

  MATLAB package for astronomy and astrophysics
  MCMAC: Monte Carlo Merger Analysis Code
  Period04: Statistical analysis of large astronomical time series
  PINGSoft2: Integral Field Spectroscopy Software
  SAMI: Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph pipeline

  SPECDRE: Spectroscopy Data Reduction
  The Starfish Diagram: Statistical visualization tool
  TWODSPEC: Long-slit and optical fiber array spectra extensions for FIGARO
  VIDE: The Void IDentification and Examination toolkit
  VStar: Variable star data visualization and analysis tool

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes on August 12, 2014 by Alice Allen.
• A new site for the ASCL!

  On Thursday, July 10, the ASCL's new site, designed and developed by Judy Schmidt, was moved into production. Code entries are in a new, more flexible database; as a result, browsing is much more flexible, and back-end processing is greatly improved. We have retained WordPress for related content management and this blog, and the phpbb — the discussion forum — for announcements and discussion of individual codes.

  I've embedded a presentation that highlights the major changes to the ASCL, but hope you will explore the site and click through it rather than click through the slides! Regardless of which you do, I hope you will click Leave a reply below to post your feedback and questions; please let us know what you think!

  Thanks!

  This entry was posted in news on July 14, 2014 by Alice Allen.
• June 2014 additions to the ASCL

  Twenty codes were added to the ASCL in June:

  ASTROM: Basic astrometry program
  ASURV: Astronomical SURVival Statistics
  Autoastrom: Autoastrometry for Mosaics
  CGS4DR: Automated reduction of data from CGS4
  COCO: Conversion of Celestial Coordinates

  CoREAS: CORSIKA-based Radio Emission from Air Showers simulator
  FROG: Time-series analysis
  GAUSSCLUMPS: Gaussian-shaped clumping from a spectral map
  IRAS90: IRAS Data Processing
  IRCAMDR: IRCAM3 Data Reduction Software

  IUEDR: IUE Data Reduction package
  JCMTDR: Applications for reducing JCMT continuum data in GSD format
  MATCH: A program for matching star lists
  PAMELA: Optimal extraction code for long-slit CCD spectroscopy
  PERIOD: Time-series analysis package

  POLMAP: Interactive data analysis package for linear spectropolarimetry
  RV: Radial Components of Observer's Velocity
  STARMAN: Stellar photometry and image/table handling
  TSP: Time-Series/Polarimetry Package
  VADER: Viscous Accretion Disk Evolution Resource

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes on July 1, 2014 by Alice Allen.