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Starlink Software Collection - 2016A Release Notes

Highlights

  • Support for the 2016 December leap second is fully included (the previous release will not correctly grid JCMT data taken after December 2016).

Documentation

Change log

Changes to Applications

CONVERT

EXTRACTOR

FIGARO (ascl:1411.022)

GAIA (ascl:1403.024)

KAPPA (ascl:1403.022)

  • Added new WCSADD MAPTYPE "refndf" to copy a frame from another NDF.
  • Added new APERADD parameter MASK which can be used to save an NDF containing a mask showing which pixels were included in the aperture.
  • Added new command ALIGN2D to align 2D images by minimizing the residuals between them.
  • Added new NORMALIZE parameters DRAWMARK and DRAWWIDTH to control plotting of these elements.
  • Improved MFITTREND's handling of line forests, adding new parameters FOREST and HNUMBIN.

ORAC-DR (ascl:1310.001)

ORAC-DR change log

POLPACK (ascl:1405.014)

SMURF (ascl:1310.007)

  • Options for despiking of JCMT WVM data added.
  • FTS2SPLIT now generates output file names by appending a number rather than manipulating the subscan field of the name.
  • Added new MAKEMAP dimmconfig parameter flt.ring_mask to control the flagging of samples that suffer from ringing.
  • Rename MAKEMAP output FITS header TOTEXP to ELAPTIME.
  • Two sets of pointing corrections can now be used in MAKEMAP.

SOURCEPLOT

  • The included JCMT source catalog has been updated.

SPLAT (ascl:1402.008)

STILTS

  • Updated to version v3.0-9.

STILTS version history

TOPCAT (ascl:1101.010)

  • Updated to version v4.3-5.

TOPCAT version history

Changes to Libraries

ARY

AST (ascl:1404.016)

ATL

HDS (ascl:1502.009)

KAPLIBS

NDF (ascl:1411.023)

NDG

PAR

PCS

  • No longer defaults to using csh for file name expansion.

STIL

  • Updated to version v3.1-2.

STIL version history

Starlink: 2016A (last edited 2020-09-23 19:00:48 by MalcolmCurrie)