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Standard Software for Astronomy - the Starlink SLALIB Example

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Patrick Wallace
Patrick Wallace*
Affiliation:
Starlink Project, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK ptn@star.rl.ac.uk

Abstract

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Starlink’s SLALIB library is a collection of algorithms used in astronomical position and time applications. After describing the library in the context of Starlink as a whole, we look at more general questions about the provision of such software.