Debian Astro Development packages

The casacore package contains the core libraries of the old AIPS++/CASA (Common Astronomy Software Applications) package. This split was made to get a better separation of core libraries and applications.

This package contains the files for application development.

• Debian Astro Team
• Ole Streicher

• 3.0.0-4 (buster)
• 2.2.0-2 (stretch)
• 3.6.1-3 (trixie)
• 3.5.0-2 (bookworm)
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Astro::Fits::Cfitsio is a Perl interface to William Pence's cfitsio subroutine library. For more information on cfitsio, see http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio.

This module attempts to provide a wrapper for nearly every cfitsio routine, while retaining as much cfitsio behavior as possible. As such, one should be aware that it is still somewhat low-level, in the sense that handing an array which is not the correct size to a routine like fits_write_img() may cause SIGSEGVs.

The goal is to eventually use these routines to build a more Perl-like interface to many common tasks such as reading and writing of images and ASCII and binary tables.

• Debian Perl Group
• gregor herrmann

• 1.12-1 (buster)
• 1.18-1 (sid)
• 1.18-1 (trixie)
• 1.17-1 (bookworm)
• 1.15-1 (bullseye)
• 1.11-2 (stretch)
• 1.10-1 (jessie)

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• Debian Science Team
• Sébastien Villemot

• 3.10.2-7 (jessie)
• 3.10.3-1 (stretch)
• 3.11.41 (upstream)

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In Debian Stretch, this package is integrated in wcslib-dev.

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FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) is a data format most used in astronomy. cfitsio is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. A set of Fortran-callable wrapper routines are also included for the convenience of Fortran programmers.

This package contains what you need for compiling sources that use this library in your own code.

• Debian Astronomy Maintainers
• Aurelien Jarno

• 4.5.0-5 (sid)
• 3.370-2+deb8u1 (jessie)
• 3.410-1 (stretch)
• 3.450-3 (buster)
• 3.490-3 (bullseye)
• 4.2.0-3 (bookworm)
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The Common Pipeline Library (CPL) comprises a set of ISO-C libraries that provide a comprehensive, efficient and robust software toolkit. It forms a basis for the creation of automated astronomical data-reduction tasks (known as "pipelines").

The CPL was developed to standardise the way instrument pipelines are built, to shorten their development cycle and to ease their maintenance. However, it may be more generally applied to any similar application, and the details of the CPL code have been engineered in a way to make the library portable and flexible, as well as minimising external dependencies.

The CPL provides a host of functionality, presented in a clear, generic and uniform manner. Among its many features, the CPL offers:

• many useful low-level data types (images, tables, matrices, strings, property lists, ...),
• many fundamental statistic, arithmetic and conversion operations for these data types.
• medium-level data access methods (e.g. a data abstraction layer for FITS files),
• data table organisation and manipulation,
• keyword/value handling and management,
• a standardised application interface for pipeline recipes, and,
• support for dynamic loading of recipe modules.

Despite the current bias towards instrument pipeline development, the library also provides a variety of general-purpose image- and signal-processing functions, making it an excellent framework for the creation of more generic data-handling packages.

This package contains the static library and the C header files.

• K. Banse, P. Ballester, C. Izzo, Y. Jung, L. K. Lundin, D. J. McKay, A. Modigliani, R. M. Palsa, M. Kiesgen and C. Sabet: The Common Pipeline Library - a silver bullet for standardising pipelines?. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XIII 314:392 (2004) (eprint)

• Debian Astronomy Maintainers
• Ole Streicher

• 7.0-3 (stretch)
• 7.3.2+ds-1 (sid)
• 7.3.2+ds-1 (trixie)
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• 7.1.3-1 (bullseye)
• 7.1-3 (buster)
• 6.5-1 (jessie)

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lang:c, library

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devel-lib

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The FFTW library computes Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) in one or more dimensions. It is extremely fast. This package contains the statically linked library, header files and test programs.

This package contains the header files and static libraries. For documentation, see libfftw3-doc.

• Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson: The Design and Implementation of FFTW3. 93(2):216–231 (2005) (eprint)

• Debian Science Maintainers
• Gianfranco Costamagna

• 3.3.10-1 (trixie)
• 3.3.8-2 (bullseye)
• 3.3.10-1 (bookworm)
• 3.3.10-2 (sid)
• 3.3.4-2 (jessie)
• 3.3.5-3 (stretch)
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The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical analysis. The routines are written from scratch by the GSL team in C, and present a modern API for C programmers, while allowing wrappers to be written for very high level languages.

This package contains the header files, static libraries and symbolic links that developers using GNU GSL will need.

URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

• Dirk Eddelbuettel

• 2.6+dfsg-2 (bullseye)
• 2.7.1+dfsg-5 (bookworm)
• 2.8+dfsg-5 (trixie)
• 2.5+dfsg-6+deb10u1 (buster-security)
• 2.3+dfsg-1 (stretch)
• 2.5+dfsg-6 (buster)
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Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) is a file format and library for storing scientific data. HDF5 was designed and implemented to address the deficiencies of HDF4.x. It has a more powerful and flexible data model, supports files larger than 2 GB, and supports parallel I/O.

This package contains development files for serial platforms.

• Gilles Filippini

• 1.10.10+repack-4 (sid)
• 1.10.4+repack-10+deb10u1 (buster-security)
• 1.10.4+repack-10 (buster)
• 1.14.5+repack-1~exp1 (experimental)
• 1.10.0-patch1+docs-3+deb9u1 (stretch)
• 1.8.13+docs-15+deb8u1 (jessie-security)
• 1.8.13+docs-15+deb8u1 (jessie)
• 1.10.6+repack-4+deb11u1 (bullseye)
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• 1.10.10+repack-4 (trixie)
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HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a subdivision of a spherical surface in which each pixel covers the same surface area as every other pixel. It is commonly used to store all-sky astronomical images, most famously maps of the cosmic microwave background.

This package provides .mod files for the Fortran language implementation of HEALPix.

• Debian Astro Team
• Leo Singer

• 3.60+ds-1 (trixie)
• 3.60+ds-1 (sid)
• 3.60+ds-1 (bookworm)
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LORENE is a set of C++ classes to solve various problems arising in numerical relativity, and more generally in computational astrophysics. It provides tools to solve partial differential equations by means of multi-domain spectral methods.

This package contains the static libraries and include files necessary to build LORENE codes or applications using LORENE.

Compiling LORENE codes (including some that are shipped in the lorene-codes-src package) often requires a Fortran compiler. LORENE is configured to use gfortran.

• Debian Astronomy Maintainers
• Graham Inggs

• 0.0.0~cvs20161116+dfsg-1 (buster)
• 0.0.0~cvs20161116+dfsg-1 (stretch)
• 0.0.0~cvs20161116+dfsg-1.3 (trixie)
• 0.0.0~cvs20161116+dfsg-1.3 (sid)
• 0.0.0~cvs20161116+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
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libnova is a general purpose, double precision, Celestial Mechanics, Astrometry and Astrodynamics library.

This package contains the development files.

• Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers
• Benjamin Drung

• 0.16-2 (stretch)
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Header files and a static library that are the basis of tools in the pluto-jpl-eph package.

The package is a build requirement of the pluto-lunar tools.

• Steffen Moeller
• Adrian Bunk

• 0.0~git20180228-1.1 (buster)
• 0.0~git20180228-1.1 (bullseye)
• 0.0~git20180228-1.1 (bookworm)
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PURIFY is a collection of routines written in C that implements different tools for radio interferometric imaging including file handling (for both visibilities and fits files), implementation of the measurement operator and set-up of the different optimization problems used for image deconvolution. The code calls the generic Sparse OPTimization (SOPT) package to solve the imaging optimization problems.

This package contains the development files.

• Luke Pratley, Jason D. McEwen, Mayeul d'Avezac, Rafael E. Carrillo, Alexandru Onose and Yves Wiaux: Robust sparse image reconstruction of radio interferometric observations with PURIFY. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., submitted (2016) (eprint)

• Debian Astro Team
• Ole Streicher

• 2.0.0-5 (bullseye)
• 4.1.0-1 (sid)
• 4.1.0-1 (trixie)
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SOPT is a C package to perform Sparse OPTimisation. It solves a variety of sparse regularisation problems, including the SARA algorithm.

SOPT is largely provided to support the PURIFY package, a companion open-source code to perform radio interferometric imaging, also written by the authors of SOPT.

This package contains the development files.

• L. Pratley, J. D. McEwen, M. d'Avezac, R. E. Carrillo, A. Onose and Y. Wiaux: Robust sparse image reconstruction of radio interferometric observations with PURIFY. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., submitted (2016) (eprint)

• Debian Astro Team
• Ole Streicher

• 3.0.1+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
• 4.1.0+dfsg-1 (sid)
• 4.1.0+dfsg-1 (trixie)
• 3.0.1-11 (bullseye)
• 2.0.0-2 (stretch)
• 2.0.0-5 (buster)
• 4.2.0 (upstream)

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This library is a collection of code designed to aid in replacing the SLA library with code from NOVAS and ERFA.

Where possible the API is similar to the C SLA API except for the use of a "pal" prefix.

This package contains the development files.

• T. Jenness and D. S. Berry: PAL: A Positional Astronomy Library. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXII 475:307 (2013) (eprint)

• Debian Astronomy Team
• Phil Wyett

• 0.9.8-1 (bullseye)
• 0.9.10-1 (bookworm)
• 0.5.0-1 (jessie)
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PgSphere, an extension for PostgreSQL, aims at providing uniform access to spherical data. It allows for a fast search and analysis for objects with spherical attributes in geographical, astronomical, or other applications using PostgreSQL.

By using an SQL interface, PgSphere's users can conveniently manage data of geographical objects around the world and astronomical data collections like star and other catalogues.

• Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers
• Christoph Berg

• 1.1.1+2018.10.13-1 (buster)

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Voro++ is a software library for carrying out three-dimensional computations of the Voronoi tessellation. A distinguishing feature of the Voro++ library is that it carries out cell-based calculations, computing the Voronoi cell for each particle individually. It is particularly well-suited for applications that rely on cell-based statistics, where features of Voronoi cells (eg. volume, centroid, number of faces) can be used to analyze a system of particles.

This package contains the static library and header file to compile programs against the library.

• Rycroft, C.H.: Voro++: A three-dimensional Voronoi cell library in C++. Chaos 19:41111 (2009) (eprint)

• Debian Astronomy Team
• Roger Wesson

• 0.5+revert-to-0.4.6+dfsg1-1 (bookworm)
• 0.5+revert-to-0.4.6+dfsg1-1 (trixie)
• 0.5+revert-to-0.4.6+dfsg1-1 (bullseye)
• 0.4.6+dfsg1-3 (buster)
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WSClean (w-stacking clean) is a fast generic widefield imager. It uses the w-stacking algorithm and can make use of the w-snapshot algorithm. As of Feb 2014, it is 2-12 times faster than CASA's w-projection, depending on the array configuration. It supports full-sky imaging and proper beam correction for homogeneous dipole arrays such as the MWA.

WSClean allows Hogbom and Cotton-Schwab cleaning, and can clean polarizations joinedly. All operations are performed on the CPU (it is not specialized for GPUs).

This package contains the static library and the header file to compile own programs against the library.

• A. R. Offringa, B. McKinley, N. Hurley-Walker, F. H. Briggs, R. B. Wayth, D. L. Kaplan, M. E. Bell, L. Feng, A. R. Neben, J. D. Hughes, J. Rhee, T. Murphy, N. D. R. Bhat, G. Bernardi, J. D. Bowman, R. J. Cappallo, B. E. Corey, A. A. Deshpande, D. Emrich, A. Ewall-Wice, B. M. Gaensler, R. Goeke, L. J. Greenhill, B. J. Hazelton, L. Hindson, M. Johnston-Hollitt, D. C. Jacobs, J. C. Kasper, E. Kratzenberg, E. Lenc, C. J. Lonsdale, M. J. Lynch, S. R. McWhirter, D. A. Mitchell, M. F. Morales, E. Morgan, N. Kudryavtseva, D. Oberoi, S. M. Ord, B. Pindor, P. Procopio, T. Prabu, J. Riding, D. A. Roshi, N. U. Shankar, K. S. Srivani, R. Subrahmanyan, S. J. Tingay, M. Waterson, R. L. Webster, A. R. Whitney, A. Williams and C. L. Williams: WSCLEAN: an implementation of a fast, generic wide-field imager for radio astronomy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 444:606 - 619 (2014) (eprint)

• Debian Astro Team
• Ole Streicher

• 3.4-3 (sid)
• 2.6-1 (buster)
• 2.10.1-1 (bullseye)
• 3.1-3 (bookworm)
• 2.2.1-1 (stretch)
• 3.4-3 (trixie)

• 4 regular users
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Many routines are included in pgplot for viewing scientific data. Many (about 70) output devices are supported. 2-D, 3-D, contour, image manipulation, etc. are well supported. Interactive routines are included. Both a C and a FORTRAN library are present.

• Carlo Segre
• Andreas Beckmann

• 5.2.2-19+deb8u1 (non-free) (jessie)
• 5.2.2-19.7 (non-free) (trixie)
• 5.2.2-19.5 (non-free) (bookworm)
• 5.2.2-19.4 (non-free) (bullseye)
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• 5.2.2-19.3 (non-free) (stretch)
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mathematics

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Giza-dev is a DFSG-free replacement for pgplot5.