sun 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

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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.
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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.

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Documentation 

Source code

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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