Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik

Abteilung Astronomie

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IDL Libraries at IAAT, Astronomy

This page contains links to the automatic documentation of several large program-libraries that are useful in developing astronomical IDL-Programs.

astrolib, a large package developed at GSFC,
aitlib, a package developed at the Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Abteilung Astronomie, of the University of Tübingen (i.e., by us) and at the University of Warwick, UK. If you are in Tübingen, you can also browse through the CVS Tree of the aitlib.
TeXtoIDL, by Matthew Craig, an IDL function converting TeX text into the arcane IDL string syntax. Very useful!

The documentation is generated automatically using a locally developed perl-script pro2html. The script is run nightly after the astrolib has been mirrored from GSFC, i.e., the documentation should be reasonably up to date. Please notify Jörn Wilms if you find inconsistencies or errors in the documentation or if you are interested in obtaining pro2html for your own use.

Note: Only subroutines having a full IDL documentation header are documented here! Especially in aitlib not all subroutines available are documented yet.

In addition, we have full copies of the following great libraries which are documented on their respective homepages:

the JHUAPL library (tons of useful programs), look at /usr/local/share/rsi/local/jhuapl.
Craig Marquardts IDL programs with superb fitting routines that are superior to curvefit. We mirror the library every Saturday night, the documentation on Craig's homepage is very useful as well.
Liam Gumley has useful programs, especially for plotting images onto maps (works also for sky images!). The library is found at /usr/local/share/rsi/local/gumley.

More links to astronomy related IDL libraries are at Mathtools.

Jörn Wilms | Impressum

Last modified 2004 Sep 24