Computing and Software Links

Local access only

• Department message of the day and seminars
• X-ray group Wiki
• Webmail
• Printer queues
• Group HOWTOs and FAQs
• System information and load
• List of computers and their configuration
• X-ray web server status
• University of Cambridge Unix Support

X-ray software packages

• Chandra Analysis system: CIAO) CXC, Contributed software
• XMM SAS ESAC
• Integral Offline Science Analysis
• Goddard HEASoft
• Xanadu
  • XSPEC and wiki
  • XIMAGE
  • XRONOS
• IRAF-PROS and manual
• HEASARC Calibration Database and manual

Other Astronomy Software

• DS9, manual and FAQ
• IRAF and the IRAF help pages
• STSDAS and manual
• ESO skycat

Programming Languages

• Python (more...)
• IDL and our IDL Help Page (local)
• Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
• Perl

Plotting Packages

• Veusz
• QDP
• PGPLOT and manual
• Official SuperMongo Site, which includes a reference manual and command reference guide
• GNUPlot
• Grace/XMGrace Home

Other Software Packages

• Text Processing Using LaTeX
• Emacs Wiki
• GNU Emacs Manual
• Unofficial .emacs Home (configuring emacs)
• Mathematica
• GSL (GNU Scientific Library)
• rsync - synchronise directories

Unix Documentation

• Sed - An Introduction
• Cambridge Unix Courses (includes notes for text processing - awk, sed, LaTeX and Further Use of Unix)