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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

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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

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Montage Poster at 227th AAS Meeting, Kissimmee, FL. Jan 4-8, 2016.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Montage and the VAO E/PO Plan

Montage is one of the tools that the U.S. Virtual Astronomical Observatory project expects to use in bringing the Virtual Observatory into the classroom. The Virtual Observatory (VO) is an international effort to bring a large-scale electronic integration of astronomy … Continue reading

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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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