CRUSH is a free data reduction pipeline and toolkit for specific astronomical imaging arrays. It is designed especially for use with ground-based or airborne millimeter-wave and far-infrared cameras.
Currently, it supports SHARC-2, LABOCA, SABOCA, PolKa, GISMO, SCUBA-2, SOFIA/HAWC+, and SOFIA/HIRMES.
CRUSH is written entirely in Java, allowing it to run on virtually any platform. It provides the ‘show’ graphical tool for displaying FITS images, however reductions are normally run from the command-line.
This is free and open source software.
It provides:
- crush – reduce data from supported astronomical cameras.
- coadd – combine CRUSH images (e.g. if they cannot be reduced together).
- detect – source extraction tool.
- difftool – difference two CRUSH images
- esorename – rename ESO archive files to their original APEX file names.
- histogram – generate histograms from CRUSH / FITS images.
- imagetool – CRUSH / FITS image manipulation utility.
- show – GUI FITS Image display & manipulation utility.
Website: www.sigmyne.com/crush
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Attila Kovács
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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