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 via XPA and
SAMP.
DS9 is a stand-alone application. It requires no installation or
support files. Versions of DS9 currently exist for Solaris, Linux,
MacOSX,
and Windows.
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.
New releases of the DS9 binaries, including new features and bug
fixes,
are made available 3 times a year on January 15th, April 15th, and
October 15th.
DS9 Version 6.0 Binaries
Solaris
Solaris
Linux
Linux
Linux64
MacOSX Application
for
OS
verison
10.6
(Snow
Leopard)
for
OS
verison
10.5
(Leopard)
for
OS
version
10.4
(Tiger)
MacOSX using X11 Window System (command-line program for advanced users)
for
OS
version
10.6
(Snow
Leopard)
for
OS
version
10.5
(Leopard)
for
OS
version
10.4
(Tiger)
Windows
Windows
7/Vista/XP
Note: Windows 7 and Vista users, please see the following note for instructions on installation.
Source
Source
Beta
No new beta versions are currently available.
Archive
Older archived versions of DS9 are available here.
XPA Version 2.1.11 Binaries
Solaris
Solaris
Linux
Linux
Linux64
MacOSX
for
OS
version
10.6
(Snow
Leopard)
for
OS
version
10.5
(Leopard)
for
OS
version
10.4
(Tiger)
Windows
Windows
Vista/XP/2000/NT
pyds9
The pyds9 module uses a Python interface to XPA
to communicate with DS9. It supports communication with all of DS9’s
XPA access points.
Source
Documentation
S-Lang XPA
SLxpa is a plugin which binds the XPA library and DS9 to
the S-Lang
language. It makes XPA callable directly from the S-Lang
interpreter
and provides dozens of functions to control and interact with DS9 from
modeling and analysis applications such as ISIS.
S-Lang XPA
Documentation
Reference
Manual
Reference Manual (postscript)
Reference Manual (pdf)
User Manual
User Manual (postscript)
User Manual (pdf)
FAQ
New Features
Release Notes
Tutorials
Contact Information
If you encounter any problems or have suggestions with
SAOImage
DS9, please contact us: saord @ cfa.harvard.edu
William Joye
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
60 Garden St.
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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