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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV
ASP Conference Series, Vol. 77, 1995
Book Editors: R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes
Electronic Editor: H. E. Payne

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Preface

Conference Participants

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Author Index

Part 1: Education and Public Policy

Part 2: Network Information Systems

Part 3: GUIs and Visualization

Part 4: Archives and Databases

Part 5: Data Models and Formats

Part 6: Object Detection and Classification

Part 7: Image Restoration and Analysis

Part 8: Statistical Analysis

Part 9: Simulation

Part 10: Software Systems

Part 11: Data Modeling and Analysis

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Cover

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Preface

Conference Participants

Conference Photograph

Author Index

Part 1: Education and Public Policy

• The Electronic PictureBook and Astronomy's Education Initiative (invited talk)
  R. A. Brown, J. Ishee, and C. Lallo
• The View From NASA Headquarters: Trends And Changes in Mission Operations And Data Analysis Programs (invited talk)
  G. Riegler

Part 2: Network Information Systems

• Modelling Astrophysical Turbulent Convection (invited talk)
  N. Brummell and J. Toomre
• Distributed Software for Observations in the Near Infrared
  V. Gavryusev, C. Baffa, and E. Giani
• The New Astrophysics Data System
  G. Eichhorn, S. S. Murray, M. J. Kurtz, A. Accomazzi, and C. S. Grant
• Development of an ADS Data Dictionary Standard
  C. S. Grant, A. Accomazzi, G. Eichhorn, M. J. Kurtz, and S. S. Murray
• ADS Abstract Service Enhancements
  A. Accomazzi, C. S. Grant, G. Eichhorn, M. J. Kurtz, and S. S. Murray
• WWW as a Support for the Long Term LBT Archive
  L. Fini
• The World Wide Web: Cornerstone of the EUVE Science Archive
  K. McDonald, B. Stroozas, B. Antia, B. Roberts, K. Chen, N. Craig, and C. Christian
• The EINSTEIN On-Line Service
  D. E. Harris, C. S. Grant, and H. Andernach
• AstroWeb -- Internet Resources for Astronomers
  R. E. Jackson, H.-M. Adorf, D. Egret, A. Heck, A. Koekemoer, F. Murtagh, and D. Wells
• Indexing and Searching Distributed Astronomical Data Archives
  R. E. Jackson
• An Information System for Proposal Submission and Handling
  A. M. Chavan and M. A. Albrecht
• Design of a Remote Proposal Submission System
  A. Richmond, M. Duesterhaus, Song Yom, E. Schlegel, A. Smale, and N. White
• Electronic Submission of HST Phase I Observing Proposals
  H. E. Payne and D. J. Asson
• A Generalized Mosaic-to-SQL Interface with Extensions to Distributed Archives
  F. Pasian and R. Smareglia
• WDB---A Web Interface to Sybase
  B. F. Rasmussen
• Two Small Astronomical Catalogs Available In Hypertext
  K. M. Strom
• User Interfaces to HST Data: StarView and the World Wide Web
  J. J. Travisano
• ISSA-PS, The Postage Stamp Server for IRAS Imaging Data
  D. Van Buren, R. Ebert, and D. Egret

Part 3: GUIs and Visualization

• A Portable GUI Development System---The IRAF Widget Server (invited talk)
  D. Tody
• The AstroVR Collaboratory, An On-line Multi-User Environment for Research in Astrophysics (invited talk)
  D. Van Buren, P. Curtis, and D. A. Nichols
• A Graphical User Interface for a Development Environment (GUIDE)
  A. Bhatnagar
• Tcl/Tk with DRAMA - A Natural for Building User Interfaces to Instrumentation Systems?
  T. J. Farrell, J. A. Bailey, and K. Shortridge
• A Method for Visualizing Time Variability in X-Ray Images
  P. Giommi, N. E. White, and L. Angelini
• ASpect: A Multi-Wavelength Spectrum Analysis Package for IRAF
  S. J. Hulbert, J. D. Eisenhamer, Z. G. Levay, and R. A. Shaw
• Applying Public Access Programming Techniques To SAOimage
  E. Mandel and D. Tody
• WIP -- An Interactive Graphics Software Package
  J. A. Morgan
• Providing a Common GUI to Image Processing Tasks under PCIPS
  O. M. Smirnov and N. E. Piskunov
• A Graphical Planning and Scheduling Toolkit for Astronomical Spacecraft
  S. C. Kleiner
• A Graphical Front End for the WIYN Telescope Engineering Data System
  J. W. Percival
• Space and the Spaceball
  R. Gooch
• Visualization of GBT Geometry
  D. C. Wells

Part 4: Archives and Databases

• What Happened to the Results?
  S. G. Ansari and A. Micol
• The Hubble Space Telescope Data Archive
  K. D. Borne, S. A. Baum, A. Fruchter, and K. S. Long
• The Hubble Data Archive: Opening the Treasures of the HST to the Community
  J. A. Pollizzi, III
• Designing an Open E-Mail Interface to a Data Archive
  J. Richon
• An Object-Oriented Approach to Astronomical Databases
  R. J. Brunner, K. Ramaiyer, A. Szalay, A. J. Connolly, and R. H. Lupton
• Data Archive System for Kiso Observatory and Okayama Astrophysical Observatory
  S. Ichikawa, S. Yoshida, M. Yoshida, T. Horaguchi, and M. Hamabe
• Exploring Interactive Archive Data Presentation at the COSSC
  J. M. Jordan, M. Cresitello-Dittmar, and J. S. Allen
• Accessing the Digitized Sky Survey
  J. E. Morrison
• GUIDARES: Reading the Guide Star Catalog in Very Many Ways
  O. Yu. Malkov and O. M. Smirnov
• Storing and Distributing GONG Data
  M. Trueblood, W. Erdwurm, and J. A. Pintar

Part 5: Data Models and Formats

• What is an Astronomical Data Model?
  A. Farris and R. J. Allen
• Propagating Uncertainties and Units in Data Structures
  J. McDowell and M. Elvis
• An Abstract Data Interface
  D. J. Allan
• Proposed FITS Keywords and Column Headers for ALEXIS Mission Data Files
  J. Bloch and J. Theiler
• ASC Data Structures and Model
  M. Conroy, R. Simon, J. McDowell, and K. Barry
• Reformatting the Ginga Database to FITS and the Creation of a Data Products Archive
  R. H. D. Corbet, C. Larkin, J. A. Butcher, J. P. Osborne, and J. A. Nousek
• Source-searching in Photon-event Lists without Imaging
  C. G. Page
• The OGIP FITS Working Group
  M. F. Corcoran, L. Angelini, I. George, T. McGlynn, K. Mukai, W. Pence, and A. Rots
• Organizing Observational Data at the Telescope
  M. Peron, D. Baade, M. A. Albrecht, and P. Grosbøl
• IMPORT/EXPORT: Image Conversion Tools for IRAF
  M. Fitzpatrick
• Convert: Bridging the Scientific Data Format Chasm
  D. G. Jennings, W. D. Pence, and M. Folk
• Representations of Celestial Coordinates in FITS
  E. W. Greisen and M. Calabretta
• A Generic Data Exchange Scheme Between FITS Format and C Structures
  W. Peng and T. Nicinski
• A Proposed Convention for Writing FITS Data Tapes: DRAFT 0
  ROSAT/ASCA/XTE Development Team
• FITSIO Subroutine Library Update
  W. D. Pence
• FITS Checksum Verification in the NOAO Archive
  R. Seaman

Part 6: Object Detection and Classification

• Automated Classification of a Large Database of Stellar Spectra
  R. K. Gulati, R. Gupta, P. Gothoskar, and S. Khobragade
• Classification of Objects in the Guide Star Catalog
  O. Yu. Malkov and O. M. Smirnov
• Object Detection Using Multi-Resolution Analysis
  F. Murtagh, W. Zeilinger, J.-L. Starck, and A. Bijaoui
• Unsupervised Catalog Classification
  F. Murtagh
• Astronomical Image Compression Using the Pyramidal Median Transform
  J.-L. Starck, F. Murtagh, and M. Louys
• Clustering Analysis Algorithms and Their Applications to Digital POSS-II Catalogs
  R. R. de Carvalho, S. G. Djorgovski, N. Weir, U. Fayyad, K. Cherkauer, J. Roden, and A. Gray

Part 7: Image Restoration and Analysis

• Multiresolution and Astronomical Image Processing (invited talk)
  J.-L. Starck, F. Murtagh, and A. Bijaoui
• Improvements in Filter Design for Removing Galactic ``Cirrus'' from IRAS Images
  J. P. Basart, Lun X. He, P. N. Appleton, and J. A. Pedelty
• Star Finding and PSF Determination using Image Restoration
  R. N. Hook and L. B. Lucy
• Registering, PSF-Matching and Intensity-Matching Images in IRAF
  A. C. Phillips and L. E. Davis
• Restoration of HST WFPC2 Images in Gyro-Hold Mode
  J. Mo and R. J. Hanisch
• MEM Task for Image Restoration in IRAF
  N. Wu

Part 8: Statistical Analysis

• Statistical Consulting Center for Astronomy
  E. D. Feigelson, M. G. Akritas, and J. L. Rosenberger
• Stochastic Relaxation as a Tool for Bayesian Modeling of Astronomical Images
  I. C. Busko
• Spatial Models and Spatial Statistics for Astronomical Data
  L. Pásztor and L. V. Tóth
• Spatial Structure of NGC 6822: An Example for Statistical Modeling of Astronomical Data
  L. Pásztor, C. Gallart, A. Aparicio, J. M. Vílchez
• Cheating Poisson: A Biased Method for Detecting Faint Sources in All-Sky Survey Data
  J. W. Lewis
• Bias-Free Parameter Estimation with Few Counts, by Iterative Chi-Squared Minimization
  K. Kearns, F. Primini, and D. Alexander
• A Method for Minimizing Background Offset Errors When Creating Mosaics
  M. W. Regan and R. A. Gruendl

Part 9: Simulation

• CCDs at ESO: A Systematic Testing Program
  T .M. C. Abbott and R. H. Warmels
• Modeling Scattered Light in the HST Faint Object Spectrograph
  H. Bushouse, M. Rosa, and Th. Mueller
• Simulation of HST PSFs using Tiny Tim
  J. Krist
• QPSIM: An IRAF/PROS Tool for Source Simulation
  K. R. Manning, J. DePonte, and F. Primini
• The SAO AXAF Simulation System
  D. Jerius, M. Freeman, T. Gaetz, J. P. Hughes, and W. Podgorski
• Simulations of Pinhole Imaging for AXAF: Distributed Processing Using the MPI Standard
  D. Nguyen and B. Hillberg

Part 10: Software Systems

• FTOOLS: A FITS Data Processing and Analysis Software Package
  J. K. Blackburn
• Migrating the Starlink Network from VMS to Unix
  C. Clayton
• Porting CGS4DR to Unix
  P. N. Daly
• The Array Limited Infrared Control Environment
  P. N. Daly, A. Bridger, D. A. Pickup, and M. J. Paterson
• The SAX-LEGSPC Data Reduction and Analysis System: An Example of a Minimalist Approach
  F. Favata, A. N. Parmar, U. Lammers, G. Vacanti, M. Busetta, J. J. Mathieu, and P. Isherwood
• The Data Analysis System For The PDS Detector On-board the SAX Satellite
  D. Dal Fiume, F. Frontera, L. Nicastro, M. Orlandini, and M. Trifoglio
• Use of Inheritance Techniques in Real-Time Systems under DRAMA
  T. J. Farrell and K. Shortridge
• Interfacing the Tk Toolkit to ADAM
  D. L. Terrett
• The Stellar Dynamics Toolbox NEMO
  P. Teuben
• Data Reduction Software for SWAS
  Z. Wang
• A New PROS Task for Calculating HRI Source Intensities or Upper Limits
  J. C. Chen, M. A. Conroy, J. DePonte, and F. A. Primini
• The PROS Big Picture: A High-Level Representation of a Software System
  J. DePonte, J. Chen, K.R. Manning, D. Schmidt, and D. Van Stone
• An IRAF-Independent Interface for Spatial-Region Descriptors
  D. Schmidt
• Recreating Einstein Level One Processing Exposure Masks and Background Maps in IRAF
  D. Van Stone, M. Garcia, and J. McDowell
• The ASC Pipeline: Concept to Prototype
  A. Mistry, D. Plummer, and R. Zacher
• Evolution of EUVE Guest Observer Data Reduction
  E. C. Olson
• The OPUS Pipeline: A Partially Object-Oriented Pipeline System
  J. Rose, R. Akella, S. Binegar, T. H. Choo, C. Heller-Boyer, T. Hester, P. Hyde, R. Perrine, M. A. Rose, and K. Steuerman
• A Retrospective View of Miriad
  R. J. Sault, P. J. Teuben, and M. C. H. Wright
• The IDL Astronomy User's Library
  W. B. Landsman

Part 11: Data Modeling and Analysis

• Spectroscopic reduction and analysis programs at the DAO (invited talk)
  G. Hill
• Interactive Fitting of EUVE Emission Line Spectra
  M. Abbott
• On the Combination of Undersampled Multiframes
  H.-M. Adorf
• Interpolation of Irregularly Sampled Data Series---A Survey
  H.-M. Adorf
• Calculating the Position and Velocity Components of HST
  T. B. Ake
• Robust Data Analysis Methods for Spectroscopy
  P. Ballester
• Application of the Linear Quadtree to Astronomical Databases
  P. Barrett
• Wavelength Calibration at Moderately High Resolution
  J.-P. De Cuyper and H. Hensberge
• An Approach for Obtaining Polarization Information from COBE-DMR
  P. B. Keegstra, C. L. Bennett, and G. F. Smoot
• Discrimination of Point-like Objects in Astronomical Images using Surface Curvature
  A. Llebaria, P. Lamy, and P. Malburet
• Automated Globular Cluster Photometry with DASHA
  O. M. Smirnov and A. P. Ipatov
• MACSQIID: A package for the reduction of data from the SQIID Infrared Camera
  J. W. MacKenty
• EMSAO: Radial Velocities from Emission Lines in Spectra
  D. J. Mink and W. F. Wyatt
• A Technique for Determining Proper Motions from Schmidt Plate Scans at ST ScI
  R. L. Williamson II, D. J. MacConnell, and W. J. Roberts
• Towards a General Definition for Spectroscopic Resolution
  A. W. Jones, J. Bland-Hawthorn, and P. L. Shopbell
• A Test for Weak Cosmic Ray Events on CCD Exposures
  J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Serjeant, and P. L. Shopbell
• Automated Spectral Reduction in the IRAF Fabry-Perot Package
  P. L. Shopbell and J. Bland-Hawthorn
• Robust Estimation and Image Combining
  C. Y. Zhang
• ADASS '94 - A Summary And A Look To The Future
  G. H. Jacoby

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