JAC Software publications

This page lists conference proceedings and refereed journal articles presenting the work of the JAC software group since 1993. Entries indicated with an asterisk do not have JAC software group members as primary authors but do have a contribution from the JAC software group. Internal JAC technical reports and software documentation can be found on the JAC documentation server.

Refereed journal articles:

2003

• A submillimetre imaging polarimeter at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope*

2002

• Towards the automated reduction and calibration of SCUBA data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

1999

• SCUBA: a common-user submillimetre camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope*

1994

• Automated observing with CGS4 on UKIRT

Conference Proceedings:

2005

• Architecture of the eSTAR/WFCAM Transient Object Detection Agent
• Telescope Observation Markup Language (TOML) Definition and Use
• A survey of software for the manipulation and visualisation of 3-D sub-mm spectral line datasets
• Porting the Starlink Software Collection to GNU Autoconf*
• Design of the SCUBA-2 Quick-Look Display and Data Reduction Pipeline*

2004

• The JCMT Observing Queue and Recipe Sequencer
• Polarimetery Data Reduction at the Joint Astronomy Centre
• Parallel, real-time and pipeline data reduction for the ROVER sub-mm heterodyne polarimeter on the JCMT with ACSIS and ORAC-DR
• Preliminary design of the SCUBA-2 Data Reduction Pipeline
• Observer versus software engineer: The dawn of the armchair astronomers
• When the Observer isn't there: The OMP Feedback system
• eSTAR: Astronomers, Agents and when Robotic Telescopes aren't...*
• eSTAR: Intelligent observing and rapid responses*
• POLPACK - An imaging polarimetry reduction package*
• A Polarimeter for SCUBA-2*
• Science returns of flexible scheduling on UKIRT and the JCMT*

2003

• ORAC-DR: One Pipeline for Multiple Telescopes
• Source Code Management and Software Distribution using Open Source Technologies*
• Design status of WFCAM: a wide field camera for the UK infrared telescope*
• UFTI: the 0.8 - 2.5 μm fast track imager for the UK infrared telescope*
• HARP-B: a 350-GHz 16-element focal plane array for the James Clerk Maxwell telescope*

2002

• Reducing and Calibrating SCUBA Data on Demand
• Sharing code and support between heterogeneous telescopes: the UKIRT and JCMT joint software projects
• Flexible Software for Flexible Scheduling
• The JCMT Observatory Control System
• JCMT observatory control system
• The Infinitely Configurable Observation Query Tool
• JCMT/UKIRT Telescope Control System
• Generic Data Pipelining Using ORAC-DR*
• A New Observing Tool for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope*
• Starlink Software Developments [in 2001]*
• Co-ordinating and Synchronizing Instruments for a Real-time Distributed Reduction System*
• Seeing Statistics at the Upgraded 3.8m UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)*

2001

• Automated Reduction and Calibration of SCUBA Archive Data Using ORAC-DR
• Infrared Spectroscopy Data Reduction with ORAC-DR
• The New JCMT Holographic Surface Mapping System - Implementation
• An Observer's View of the ORAC System at UKIRT*

2000

• Dual-Beam Rastering and Deconvolution Techniques for SCUBA
• SCUBA Observing Techniques and Data Reduction Pipeline
• Queue Scheduling at the JCMT: the Real-life Experience
• Application of a Kalman Filter at UKIRT
• (Re-) Configurable Data File Writing At UKIRT
• SCUBA: Current performance and future upgrades*
• Imaging the Polarized Interstellar Medium*
• ORAC: a modern observing system for UKIRT*
• ORAC: 21st Century Observing at UKIRT*
• Graphical User Interface for an Observing Control System for the UK Infrared Telescope*

1999

• The SCUBA Data Reduction Pipeline: ORAC-DR at the JCMT
• Perl at the Joint Astronomy Centre
• ORAC-DR: Pipelining With Other People's Code
• Data Reduction of Jittered Infrared Images Using the ORAC Pipeline

1998

• Removing sky contributions from SCUBA data
• Reducing SCUBA Data at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
• The Future of Data Reduction at UKIRT
• New JCMT telescope control system
• Upgrading the JCMT control system to platform independence
• Active optics at UKIRT
• JCMT active surface control system: implementation
• Observing control and data reduction at the UKIRT*
• Observing Control at the UKIRT*

1997

• Remote Eavesdropping at the JCMT via the World Wide Web
• The Portable-CGS4DR Graphical User Interface
• The JCMT Telescope Management System
• UKIRT fast guide system improvements
• Route-finding algorithm for the optimal control of telescope slews
• Portable telescope control system project*

1996

• Remote Eavesdropping via the World Wide Web
• Queue Scheduled Observing at UKIRT - Evolution not Revolution
• Real-Time Automated Data Reduction at UKIRT
• The UKT14 Queueing System

1995

• Controlling the UKIRT upgrades program
• Porting CGS4DR to Unix
• The Array Limited Infrared Control Environment
• Observing Applications via the WWW

1994

• Deconvolving Spatially Undersampled Infra Red Spectroscopic Images
• Automated Observing with CGS4 on UKIRT
• Automated Observing at the UKIRT
• Photon counting versus CCD sensors for wavefront sensing: performance comparison in the presence of noise*

1993

• Remote Observing with UKIRT: The UK-Hawaii Experience
• The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope - Demonstration of Remote Observing with the JCMT on Mauna Kea

Miscellaneous externally published documents:

Starlink documents

• SPECX -- A Millimetre Wave Spectral Reduction Package [SUN/17]
• Portable-CGS4 [SUN/27]
• FLUXES - JCMT Position and Flux Density Calibration [SUN/213]*
• SURF - SCUBA User Reduction Facility [SUN/216]
• STARPERL - Starlink perl modules [SUN/228]
• The Global Section Datafile (GSD) access library [SUN/229]
• ORAC-DR: Overview and General Introduction [SUN/230]
• ORAC-DR - SCUBA Pipeline Data Reduction [SUN/231]
• ORAC-DR - imaging data reduction [SUN/232]
• ORAC-DR - Programmer's Guide [SUN/233]
• ORAC-DR - spectroscopy data reduction [SUN/236]
• Specx Cookbook - Reduction of millimetre wave data [SC/8]*
• The SCUBA photometry cookbook [SC/10]*
• The SCUBA map reduction cookbook [SC/11]*
• SURF Programming Interface [SSN/72]

Books

• Extending and Embedding Perl [Manning]

Magazine Articles

• PDL: The Perl Data Language* [The Perl Journal]
• PDL: The Perl Data Language* [Dr Dobbs]
• SURF: Reducing SCUBA data [Starlink bulletin 20]