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.
DS9 is a stand-alone application. It requires no installation or
support files. Versions of DS9 currently exist for Sun Solaris, Sun
Solaris64, Linux, Linux64, MacOSX, Darwin Intel and PPC,
and Windows XP.
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 binaires, including new features and bug
fixes,
are made available four times a year in January, April, July, and
October.
Note: Window Vista users,
please note the following instructions here.
DS9 Binaries Version 5.1
For HTTP-based retrieval use:
For FTP-based retrieval use:
Archives of Older DS9 Releases
Older archived versions of DS9 are now available here.
XPA Binaries Version 2.1.9
For HTTP-based retrieval use:
For FTP-based retrieval use:
Documentation
Source code
For HTTP-based retrieval use:
For FTP-based retrieval use:
Contact Information
If you encounter any problems or have suggestions with SAOImage
DS9, please contact us at: 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