Category Archives: galaxies

Discovery of diffuse emission in the galaxy cluster A1689

Posted on July 8, 2011 by astrocompute

Vacca et al (2011) have used Montage in their investigations of the radio continuum emission in  A1689 through archival observations at 1.2 and 1.4GHz, obtained with the Very Large Array. They reported the discovery of an extended, diffuse, low-surface brightness radio … Continue reading →

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Using Montage To Build New Applications: The IRSA Finder Chart Service

Posted on March 19, 2011 by astrocompute

Because Montage is written as a toolkit, its components – useful tools in their own right – can be used to support the development of new applications. We describe one application here: the IRSA Finder Chart service, developed by my … Continue reading →

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Montage Used To Support Eighth Sloan Digital Sky Survey Release

Posted on March 2, 2011 by montageblog

Aihara et al. recently described the eighth release of the data (DR8) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The release is the first from what is called SDSS-III. This phase of SDSS began in August 2008, and uses new instrumentation … Continue reading →

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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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