SAOImage DS9: Astronomical Data Visualization Application
SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data
visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables,
multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms
and colormaps. It provides for easy communication with external
analysis tasks and is highly configurable and extensible.
DS9 is a stand-alone application. It requires no installation or
support files. Versions of DS9 currently exist for Sun Solaris, Sun
Solaris64, Linux, Linux64, LinuxPPC, MacOSX, Darwin, and Windows
NT/2000/XP.
All
versions and platforms support a consistent set of GUI and functional
capabilities.
DS9 supports advanced features such as multiple frame buffers, mosaic
images, tiling, blinking, geometric markers, colormap manipulation,
scaling, arbitrary zoom, rotation, pan, and a variety of coordinate
systems. DS9 also supports FTP and HTTP access.
The GUI for DS9 is user configurable. GUI elements such as the
coordinate display, panner, magnifier, horizontal and vertical graphs,
button bar, and colorbar can be configured via menus or the command
line.
DS9 is a Tk/Tcl application which utilizes the SAOTk widget set. It
also incorporates the X
Public Access (XPA) mechanism to allow external processes to access
and control its data, GUI functions, and algorithms.
DS9 Binaries Version 4.0b7
For HTTP-based retrieval use:
For FTP-based retrieval use:
DS9 Binaries Version 3.0.3
NOTE to Red Hat users: several issues concerning Fedora
Core 3 have come to our attention. Please see Known
Issues for more information.
For HTTP-based retrieval use:
For FTP-based retrieval use:
XPA Binaries Version 2.1.6-2
NOTE to Red Hat users: if you are running Red Hat
core
1 or Red Hat 9 and you had previously downloaded version 2.1.6, please
download the latest version, 2.1.6-2. This
release fixes a problem with linking against libdb.so.
For HTTP-based retrieval use:
For FTP-based retrieval use:
Documentation
Source code
For HTTP-based retrieval use:
For FTP-based retrieval use:
Links
SAOImage DS9 provides visualization support for a number of
popular astronomical analysis software packages, of which a few have
been listed below:
CIAO: Chandra
Interactive Analysis of Observations
SAS:
XMM-Newton Science Analysis System
IRAF: Image
Reduction and Analysis Facility
fv:
The Interactive FITS File Editor
Acknowledgment
SAOImage DS9 development has been made possible by funding from the
Chandra X-ray Science Center (NAS8-03060) and the High Energy
Astrophysics Science Archive Center (NCC5-568).
If you have found SAOImage DS9 to be helpful in your research, the
following acknowledgment would be appreciated: "This
research has made use of SAOImage DS9, developed by Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory" or reference the following paper 2003adass..12..489J