Category Archives: galactic plane

Montage As A Visualization Engine

Posted on February 2, 2018 by astrocompute

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 →

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The AKARI Far-Infrared All-Sky Survey Maps

Posted on June 10, 2015 by astrocompute

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 →

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Discovering T Tauri Candidates Using The INT Photometric H-Alpha Survey (IPHAS)

Posted on April 1, 2011 by astrocompute

Barentsen et al (2011) have recently shown to use the images produced by the Isaac Newton Telescope  Photometric H-Alpha Survey to identify new T Tauri stars and to estimate their accretion rates. Specifically, they studied a region of size 7 … Continue reading →

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