ASCL Code Record
[ascl:1110.012]
Starlink: Multi-purpose Astronomy Software
Starlink has many applications within it to meet a variety of needs; it includes:
- a general astronomical image viewer;
- data reduction tools, including programs for reducing CCD-like data;
- general-purpose data-analysis and visualisation tools;
- image processing, data visualisation, and manipulating NDF components;
- a flexible and powerful library for handling World Coordinate Systems (partly based on the SLALIB library);
- a library of routines intended to make accurate and reliable positional-astronomy applications easier to write; and
- and a Hierarchical Data System that is portable and flexible for storing and retrieving data.
- Code site:
- https://starlink.eao.hawaii.edu/starlink https://github.com/Starlink/starlink
- Used in:
- https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002SPIE.4844..366S
- Bibcode:
- 2011ascl.soft10012V
Preferred citation method:
The Starlink software (Currie et al 2014; https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ASPC..485..391C) is currently supported by the East Asian Observatory.
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