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WCSTools 4.0: Building Astrometry and Catalogs into Pipelines
Douglas J. Mink (2005),
presented at the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis
Software and Systems
(ADASS XV)
in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain in October 2005
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WCSTools 4.0: Building Astrometry and Catalogs into Pipelines
Douglas J. Mink
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
The WCSTools package was originally developed to create and access
world coordinate systems in FITS image headers. In order to do that,
programs and subroutines which access, modify, and extract information
from FITS image headers and data, extract information from catalogs of
sources, and manipulate sky, image, and time coordinates have been
developed. Package functionality has always been available at both
the subroutine level for developers of other packages, such as ds9,
and at the scripting level for use in data processing pipelines.
On the occasion of a major upgrade to the latest level of Mark
Calabretta's WCSLIB library, lesser-known features, such
as data and time format conversions and command line name to coordinate
resolution will be presented.
Source code and online documentation for this library are available at URL
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/.
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