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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
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
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
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
X-ray Observations of Radio Transients without Optical Hosts
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
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
Montage Used in “Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution”
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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A Montage Word Cloud
I thought I would have a change of scenery this week and have a little fun. The other week, I posted a word cloud for my other blog, Astronomy Computing Today, so I went to the wordle web site and … Continue reading
Montage Image Mosaic Software 