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Montage Image Mosaic Software · 7M ago

Montage Used To Study The Structure of the Star-forming Cluster RCW 38

E. Winston et al. (2011) report that they used  Montage in their recent paper “The Structure of the Star-forming Cluster RCW 38.” This was a multiwavelength investigation that used Spitzer, Chandra and 2MASS data that probed the spatial distribution of … Continue reading →
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Montage Image Mosaic Software · 8M ago

Montage and the VAO E/PO Plan

Montage is one of the tools that the U.S. Virtual Astronomical Observatory project expects to use in bringing the Virtual Observatory into the classroom. The Virtual Observatory (VO) is an international effort to bring a large-scale electronic integration of astronomy … Continue reading →
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Montage Image Mosaic Software · 9M ago

X-ray Observations of Radio Transients without Optical Hosts

Montage was recently used by Croft, Tomsick and Bower in their study of a VLA archival calibration field. They used Chandra observations to attempt to identify X-ray coun- terparts to the eight transient sources without optical counterparts, and two transient … Continue reading →
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Montage Image Mosaic Software · 9M ago

A Python Wrapper for the Montage Mosaic Engine

Montage is written in C for performance, but there are many Python programmers in astronomy who have asked if they can use Montage with Python. Yes, it turns out they can, through the good offices of Tom Robitaille at the … Continue reading →
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Montage Image Mosaic Software · 9M ago

Montage Used in “Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution”

Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (SAGE) is a project led by Margaret Meixner of STScI, and it is one of the Spitzer Space Telescope Legacy projects, considered of unusually high science value. The project uses the Small Magellanic Cloud … Continue reading →
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Montage Image Mosaic Software · 10M ago

A Montage Word Cloud

I thought I would have a change of scenery this week and have a little fun. The other week, I posted a word cloud for my other blog, Astronomy Computing Today, so I went to the wordle web site and … Continue reading →
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Montage Image Mosaic Software · 10M ago

The Difference Between The Mosaicking Features of Skyview and Montage

One of the questions we are often asked is what is the difference between Montage and the mosaic capabilities offered by the  Skyview Virtual Telescope at NASA’s High Energy Astrophysics Archive Research Center. My colleague John Good, the Montage architect, … Continue reading →
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Montage Image Mosaic Software · 10M ago

Montage Used In Study Of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)

Rosenberg et al. (2011) recently reported on a study of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons(PAHS), which cause very strong emission line features in the mid-infrared (10 – 20 microns), in the Photo-Dissociation Region (PDR) of  NGC 7023. As part of this study, … Continue reading →
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Montage Image Mosaic Software · 10M ago

Discovery of diffuse emission in the galaxy cluster A1689

Vacca et al (2011) have used Montage in their investigations of the radio continuum emission in  A1689 through archival observations at 1.2 and 1.4GHz, obtained with the Very Large Array. They reported the discovery of an extended, diffuse, low-surface brightness radio … Continue reading →
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Montage Image Mosaic Software · 10M ago

Montage Included In Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL)

Montage now has an entry in the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL), housed on the discussion forum for Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) at http://asterisk.apod.com/viewforum.php?f=35.  The Guide states that: “The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free, on-line … Continue reading →
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