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Exploring Space, Time, and Data with WCSTools
Jessica Mink (2018),
presented at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis
Software and Systems
(ADASS XXVIII)
in College Park, Maryland, USA in November 2018
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Exploring Space, Time, and Data with WCSTools
Jessica Mink
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
The WCSTools package, open-source software since 1996, is best known for
its ability to set and utilize the world coordinate systems of image
data and to search catalogs, but it contains other tasks to observe and
manipulate the data and metadata in FITS files. Here are some of them,
plus some upcoming additions to the package, including implementations
of arbitrary-length keywords in FITS headers and the UCAC5, Atlas, SDSS,
and GAIA catalogs. It's portable because it's all text!
Source code and online documentation for this library are available at URL
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/.
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and
the proceedings paper.