IDL Astronomy Library ("Astrolib")
List of Subgroups
- ASTRO
- Astronomy utility procedures
- ASTROM
- Procedures that utilize the astrometry in a FITS header
- DAOPHOT
- Procedures that emulate an early version of DAOPHOT PSF-fitting photometry
- DATABASE
- IDL database routines as used by the UIT and HRS science teams
- DISK_IO
- Procedures to access different disk formats including those used by AIPS,
IRAF, and stand-alone DAOPHOT
- FITS
- Procedures that access a FITS tape or a disk FITS file
- FITS_3DTABLE
- Procedures that access a 3D binary modified FITS table on disk
- FITS_TABLE
- Procedures that access an ASCII modified FITS tables on disk
- FITS_BINTABLE
- Procedures for reading and writing (disk) FITS binary table extensions
- IMAGE
- Procedures useful for image processing
- MATH
- Procedures for math and statistics (often from "Numerical Recipes")
- MISC
- Miscellaneous IDL procedures not directly related to astronomy
- PLOT
- Procedures for making or controling plots
- SDAS
- Procedures for accessing files created by STSDAS (modified disk FITS)
- SDAS_TABLE
- Procedures for accessing tables files created by STSDAS
- STRUCTURE
- Procedures for accessing IDL structures
- TV
- Procedures for manipulating the image display
- TAPE_IO
- Procedures to emulate in Unix the intrinsic tape routines available in
the VMS version of IDL.
- JHUAPL
- Routines from JHU library that are used by other procedures in the Astronomy
library, or that are strongly related to Astronomy