Astronomers

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers (Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes)
• Telescopes (Automated telescopes)
• Laboratory mills (Ball mills)
• Digital readout recorders (Baseband recorders)
• Telescopes (Charge-coupled device CCD imagers)
• Cryostats
• Desktop computers
• Calorimeters (Differential scanning calorimeters)
• Telescopes (Dobsonian telescopes)
• Radarbased surveillance systems (Doppler Rayleigh laser imaging ranging and detecting LIDAR systems)
• Spectrometers (Ebert-Fastie spectrometers)
• Spectrometers (Echelle spectrometers)
• Ionization chambers (Electron beam ion traps EBIT)
• Telescopes (European VLBI Network EVN telescopes)
• Infrared spectrometers (Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers)
• Binoculars (High powered binoculars)
• Spectrographs (High resolution spectrographs)
• Interferometers
• Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
• Radarbased surveillance systems (Laser imaging detection and ranging LIDAR systems)
• Spectrographs (Low resolution imaging spectrographs)
• Spectrographs (Multi-object spectrographs MOS)
• Spectrometers (Near-infrared imagers and spectrometers NIRI)
• Spectrometers (Near-infrared integral field spectrometers)
• Interferometers (Optical interferometers)
• Telescopes (Optical telescopes)
• Personal computers
• Photometers
• Radio frequency transmitters or receivers (Planetary radar transmitters)
• Spectrometers (Pulsar processors)
• Radio antennas
• Telescopes (Radio telescopes)
• Telescopes (Reflector telescopes)
• Telescopes (Refracting telescopes)
• Radarbased surveillance systems (Resonance fluorescence laser imaging detection and ranging LIDAR systems)
• Telescopes (Scanning telescopes)
• Telescopes (Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes)
• Calculators or accessories (Scientific calculators)
• Telescopes (Single-dish radio telescopes)
• Polarizers (Solar telescope filters)
• Telescopes (Solar telescopes)
• Spectrometers (Spectroscopes)
• Laboratory evaporators (Thermal evaporators)
• Photometers (Tilting filter photometers)
• Telescopes (Very large array VLA telescopes)
• Telescopes (Very long baseline array VLBA telescopes)
• Digital cameras (Wide-field mosaic charge-coupled device CCD cameras)
• Spectrometers (Wideband pulsar processors)
• X ray diffraction equipment (X ray diffractometers)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• Adaptive optics AO simulation software
• Analyz
• Astronomical Image Processing for Windows AIP4WIN
• Astronomical Image Processing System AIPS
• Astronomical information processing system AIPS++
• Data reduction software
• Diffraction Limited MaxIm DL
• European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System ESO-MIDAS
• MSB Software Astroart
• Multipurpose Interactive Image Processing System MIIPS
• Software Bisque CCDSoft
• Starcal
• Visual Numerics PV-WAVE

• Data base user interface and query software

• Spectroscopy databases

• Development environment software

• Abstraction plus reference plus synthesis A++
• Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
• Interface definition language IDL
• National Instruments LabVIEW

• Graphics or photo imaging software

• Avis Fits Viewer
• IRIS

• Internet browser software

• Web browser software

• Object or component oriented development software

• C++
• Python

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

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