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Astronomical Image Processing System

(AIPS)
(software for processing radio astronomy data)

Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS) is software to process radio telescope observation data, including that of radio interferometers. Development began in 1978 and it is still being updated.

An early 2000s re-implementation in C++ is called AIPS++; a reason for its implementation was for use with ALMA. The earlier version, which is written in Fortran, is still widely used and is sometimes referred to as AIPS classic to distinguish it. ParselTongue is a Python interface for (classic) AIPS. I believe AIPS++ includes its own a Python interface.


(software,radio,interferometry)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_Image_Processing_System
http://www.aips.nrao.edu/index.shtml
http://www3.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hrk/AIPS_TUTORIAL/HRK_AIPS_1.html
https://www.ascl.net/9911.003
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004ASPC..314..468M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006ASPC..351..497K/abstract
https://ascl.net/1208.020

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