Monthly Archives: February 2011

Montage Used To Search for Tidal Streams Around Galaxies

Posted on February 18, 2011 by astrocompute

In a recent paper submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics,  Miskolczi, Bomans and Dettmar have used Montage in their project to search for low surface brightness tidal structures around a sample of 474 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 … Continue reading →

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Three Recent Investigations That Used The Montage Mosaic Engine

Posted on February 12, 2011 by astrocompute

Montage is used by a researchers as a tool to support research and develop new data products. This post will summarize three research papers submitted t0 peer-reviewed journals in 2011. Each of them used Montage to create image mosaics that … Continue reading →

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The On-Request Montage Image Mosaic Service

Posted on February 6, 2011 by astrocompute

If you don’t want to download and build the Montage code,  you can get mosaics of images served by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS),  Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Digitized Sky Surveys (DSS) projects through an … Continue reading →

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