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Montage As A Visualization Engine
At the AAS Jamuary meeting, I presented a poster on how the Montage Image Mosaic Toolkit (http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu) is increasingly being used as a visualization engine. The poster was designed by Angela Lerias (U.California, Riverside), who is interning with the Montage … Continue reading
Montage Helps Find Near-Earth Objects
One of the most interesting applications that I have found for Montage is by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program. A paper by Vighh et al. (2015) described how LINEAR has made significant contributions to the discovery of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), thereby … Continue reading
Best Practices for Code Release: Experience With Montage
This is a presentation given at the Special Session on Tools and Tips for Better Software, held at the 227th AAS Meeting, Kissimmee, FL, Jan 5, 2016. It was one of six presentations given at the session, whose purpose is … Continue reading
Montage YouTube Channel Rolled Out!
We have released the Montage youTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFjmHCDrq4YIUly1r082TjA . We have posted four videos of image cubes created with Montage, and will be posting more in the coming months. Here is one example: This is a full-resolution mosaic of … Continue reading
Version 4.0 of the Montage Image Mosaic Engine Released: Data Cubes and more.
Version 4.0 is a major upgrade of Montage, released with a BSD 3-clause license. The distribution is available from Git Hub at https://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/Montage and from the Montage web page at http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/download.html. The release supports aggregation of of data stored as … Continue reading
Montage Supports the Kepler Follow-Up Observation Program.
The Kepler Community Follow-up Program, known also as the Kepler Follow-up Observation Program and KFOP, is a program instituted to conduct follow-up observations on Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI), or signals observed by the Kepler spacecraft that may indicate the … Continue reading
The AKARI Far-Infrared All-Sky Survey Maps
Because Montage is designed is a toolkit of components written in ANSI-C, projects may integrate the tools into their pipelines and processing environments to create new data products and perform science analysis. The Japanese AKARI mission has used Montage to … Continue reading
Montage Mosaics The Pillars Of Creation!
The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (M16) remain one of the iconic images of the Hubble Space Telescope. Three pillars rise from a molecular cloud into an enormous HII region, powered by the massive young cluster NGC 6611. … Continue reading
Montage Used To Study The Structure of the Star-forming Cluster RCW 38
E. Winston et al. (2011) report that they used Montage in their recent paper “The Structure of the Star-forming Cluster RCW 38.” This was a multiwavelength investigation that used Spitzer, Chandra and 2MASS data that probed the spatial distribution of … Continue reading
Montage Image Mosaic Software 