Monthly Archives: August 2011

X-ray Observations of Radio Transients without Optical Hosts

Posted on August 20, 2011 by astrocompute

Montage was recently used by Croft, Tomsick and Bower in their study of a VLA archival calibration field. They used Chandra observations to attempt to identify X-ray coun- terparts to the eight transient sources without optical counterparts, and two transient … Continue reading →

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A Python Wrapper for the Montage Mosaic Engine

Posted on August 14, 2011 by astrocompute

Montage is written in C for performance, but there are many Python programmers in astronomy who have asked if they can use Montage with Python. Yes, it turns out they can, through the good offices of Tom Robitaille at the … Continue reading →

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Montage Used in “Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution”

Posted on August 4, 2011 by astrocompute

Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (SAGE) is a project led by Margaret Meixner of STScI, and it is one of the Spitzer Space Telescope Legacy projects, considered of unusually high science value. The project uses the Small Magellanic Cloud … Continue reading →

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