Nominations for the ADASS software prize for "An oustanding contribution to astronomical software"
The tricision was completed. Here is the result:
Original PSF-fitting software since the 1980s. Instrumental in HST Key Project to measure H0
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The original DAOPHOT paper has over 5000 citations indicating its importance to the field
Name is alienating to significant fraction of the field
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Possibly the most commonly used photometry package.
Its a radio interferometric data processing package that is being used successfully for the last ...
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by Invaluable tool for astronomical table data handling
TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. Its aim is to provide most...
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The combination of GUI/CLI allows for fast development and exploration of data, as well as the in...
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SAMP and VO integrations make this extremely useful as it can "play nice" with so many other tool...
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by Eric Ford
Julia is a free open source, high-level, high-performance, dynamic programming language for numer...
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Julia is a language and not a software package. The example (Julia) software application linked i...
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Julia isn't an astronomical software, it is a programming language. If Julia can be nominated tha...
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A fantastic collection of crucial astronomy related tools.
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By incorporating many other software libraries, and doing so in a consistent, inter-operable mann...
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Absolutely terrible and non-friendly tool as well the whole Python
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The go-to image viewing tool for radio astronomy data. SAMP connections make DS9 extremely useful...
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PostgreSQL backend solution to handle spherical coordinates used by many astronomical data center...
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Superior to HDF5: simpleness of format, critical for future archival.
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Has greatly improved interoperability
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Although not software, looking over the current list of submissions, it is impressive to see that...
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by PeterT
It may not be software, but it is an "outstanding contribution to astronomical software".
by Rob Seaman
FITS is the lingua franca of astronomical data. CFITSIO is its Académie française.
Used by almost all astronomical software (directly or indirectly), very low-level and not having ...
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CFITSIO makes FITS seem like a good idea.
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Extremely long lived and very stable
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Complex API (cf. astropy.io.fits)
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by Manodeep Sinha
Corrfunc is a highly optimised, open-source software package for computing the two-point correlat...
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Flexible interface that covers most use-cases
Innovative low-level implementation that is still portable and runs on both OSX and linux
by Ellert van der Velden
PRISM is a pure Python 3 package that provides an alternative method to MCMC for analyzing scient...
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by Ellert van der Velden
CMasher is a Python package that provides a curated collection of scientific colormaps.
by Paul Hancock
Aegean is a source finding and characterization tool designed for radio images. Aegean is the onl...
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ESA Gaia Archive (https://archives.esac.esa.int/gaia/) makes accessible the Gaia catalogue and da...
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User-friendly way to analyze Kepler and TESS data
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Well-documented and open source
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by Raul Infante-Sainz
Gnuastro is an official GNU package with programs and libraries for the manipulation and analysis...
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Open source and well documented
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Command-line interface, very fast
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Aladin is a sky atlas that has been developed by CDS for more than 20 years.
Aladin Desktop vers...
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Allows visualisation of a large collection of astronomical images, catalogues and databases.
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Aladin Desktop is a standalone application which can act as a portal to many distributed Virtual ...
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Aladin Lite is a javascript implementation that can be used to build web portals (e.g. ESA sky).
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by Bianca Garilli
topcat is a java based VO compliant tool to handle table data. Conceptually similar to excel, it ...
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