Table of Contents

Preface

Conference Participants

Conference Photograph

Author Index (includes page numbers)

Colophon

Science Software Applications

• Software Demands Imposed By H₀ Studies (invited talk)
  G. H. Jacoby
• Limits to the Precision of Joint Flux and Position Measurements on Array Data
  H.-M. Adorf
• XSPEC: The First Ten Years
  K. A. Arnaud
• The Application of Artificial Neural Networks to Stellar Classification
  C. A. L. Jones, M. Irwin and T. von Hippel
• 3D Source Detection
  V. Kashyap
• Stellar Photometry with CCD Sub-Pixel Sensitivity Variations
  A. J. Penny and R. Leese
• Automated Arc Line Identifications in IRAF
  F. G. Valdes
• AIPS Developments in the Nineties
  G. van Moorsel, A. Kemball and E. Greisen
• Analysis of Digital POSS-II Catalogs Using Hierarchical Unsupervised Learning Algorithms
  J. Yoo, A. Gray, J. Roden, U. M. Fayyad, R. R. de Carvalho and S. G. Djorgovski

Tools and Resources

• The AIPSview Astronomy Visualization Tools (invited talk)
  R. M. Crutcher, M. P. Baker, G. Baxter, J. Pixton and H. Ravlin
• ETOOLS: Tools for Photon Event Data
  M. Abbott, T. Kilsdonk, E. Olson, C. Christian, M. Conroy, R. Brissenden, D. Van Stone and J. Herrero
• The Distributed Processing Library (DPL)
  D. J. Allan
• Parsley: a Command-Line Parser for Astronomical Applications
  W. Deich
• Datastream Compression for IRAF Image Display
  M. Fitzpatrick and D. Tody
• Systems Aspects of COBE Science Data Compression
  I. Freedman and P. M. Farrelle
• MATADOR: Software for the Manipulation of 3D Data
  V. Gavryusev and C. Muñoz-Tuñón
• Karma: a Visualization Test-Bed
  R. Gooch
• STSDAS Tables Package Uses FITSIO
  P. Hodge
• The Palomar--ST ScI Digitized Sky Survey (POSS--II): Preliminary Data Availability
  B. M. Lasker, J. Doggett, B. McLean, C. Sturch, S. Djorgovski, R. R. de Carvalho and I. N. Reid
• The ASSIST: Unified Management of Public and Private Information
  E. Mandel and M. S. Ackerman
• Browsing Images in World Coordinate Space with SAOimage
  D. J. Mink
• Implementation of an Optical Prescription Retrieval Code Using PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) in a Mixed Architecture Network
  J. Mo, F. Romelfanger, R. J. Hanisch, D. Redding, S. Sirlin and A. Boden
• IDA---A FITS Table Browser and Editor
  C. G. Page
• An Ultra-Low Bandwidth Video Transmission System
  J. W. Percival and R. L. White
• Detecting EUV Transients in Near Real Time with ALEXIS
  D. Roussel-Dupré, J. J. Bloch, J. Theiler, T. Pfafman and B. Beauchesne
• FPTOOL: A GUI for the Analysis of Fabry-Perot Data in IRAF
  P. L. Shopbell and J. Bland-Hawthorn
• A Reexamination of the `UV Leak' of the High Resolution Imager on ROSAT
  J. D. Silverman, K. Kearns and D. E. Harris
• The German ROSAT XUV Data Center and a ROSAT XUV Pointed Phase Source Catalogue
  R. Staubert, H. Brunner and H.-C. Kreysing

Algorithms

• Massively Parallel Spatially-Variant Maximum Likelihood Image Restoration
  A. F. Boden, D. C. Redding, R. J. Hanisch and J. Mo
• CCDPHOT---An IDL Widget Based CCD Photometry Reduction System
  M. W. Buie
• Error Estimation in Elliptical Isophote Fitting
  I. C. Busko
• A Source Detection Method for ROSAT/PSPC X-Ray Images based on Wavelet Transforms
  F. Damiani, A. Maggio, G. Micela and S. Sciortino
• World Coordinate System Based Image Registration Tools for IRAF
  L. E. Davis
• Automated Pipeline Processing for AXAF Ground Calibration
  J. DePonte, M. Conroy, K. R. Manning and K. Presley
• The ASC Fitting Environment
  S. Doe, M. Conroy and J. McDowell
• Photometric Calibration of the Digitized Sky Survey
  J. Doggett, M. Postman, B. M. Lasker and M. Meakes
• X-Ray Source Detection Using the Wavelet Transform
  P. E. Freeman, V. Kashyap, R. Rosner, R. Nichol, B. Holden and D. Q. Lamb
• A New Approach for the Analysis of Complex Multi-Dimensional Data from Instruments which Detect Individual Photons
  J. G. Jernigan and M. Vezie
• Detection of Variable Sources
  V. Kashyap and R. Rosner
• New AIPS Task FRMAP for Mapping the Spectral Line Radio Sources
  L. Kogan
• A Reduction and Analysis Pipeline for ROSAT PSPC Data
  G. Mackie, G. Fabbiano, F. R. Harnden, D. -W. Kim, M. Barbera, F. Bocchino, F. Damiani, A. Maggio, G. Micela, S. Sciortino and P. Ciliegi
• Modelling the 2-D Response of Cameras and Spectrographs with Synphot
  B. Simon and R. A. Shaw
• SPEFO---A Simple, Yet Powerful Program for One-Dimensional Spectra Processing
  P. Skoda
• Deconvolution by the Multiscale Maximum Entropy Method
  J.-L. Starck and E. Pantin
• Design-Led Software Strategy for the 2dF Survey Spectrograph
  K. Taylor, J. Bailey, T. Wilkins, K. Shortridge and K. Glazebrook
• The ASC Scientific Data Model and its DDF Implementation
  D. Van Stone, M. Conroy and J. McDowell
• Reduction of Bidimensional Spectral Data Obtained with the Integral Field Spectrographs of the 6-m Telescope
  V. V. Vlasyuk
• The IAU SOFA Initiative
  P. T. Wallace
• Correcting Some DRAO Synthesis Telescope Wide-Field Imaging Problems
  A. G. Willis and L. A. Higgs
• Proposed High Order Harmonic Interferometer for Aperture Synthesis Radio Telescope
  N. Wu
• Image Quality Assessment Using the Modulation Transfer Function
  W. E. Williams and C. Toner
• Noise Suppression with Wavelets in Image Reconstruction for Aperture Synthesis
  Y. Yan, B. Peng and X. Zhang

Software Utilities and Systems

• BOF Session---Future of Astronomical Data Analysis Systems (FADS)
  J. E. Noordam and W. T. S. Deich
• BOF Session---Linux Users
  D. Mills
• Development of Ground System Software for the JET-X Telescopes on Spectrum Roentgen Gamma
  M. Denby, D. J. Allan and M. J. Ricketts
• The Netherlands SAX Data Center
  R. Jager, J. Heise, M. H. F. Savenije, J. J. Schuurmans, C. P. de Vries and G. J. Wiersma
• The SAX Scientific Software
  M. C. Maccarone
• SHIVA---An Astronomical Data Analysis Framework
  G. Sergey, E. Berman, C.-H. Huang, S. Kent, H. Newberg, T. Nicinski, D. Petravick, C. Stoughton and R. Lupton
• The Data Analysis System for the SUBARU Telescope
  T. Takata, G. Kosugi, Y. Mizumoto and Y. Ishihara
• Controlling Foreign Tasks with the IRAF cl
  D. L. Terrett

Software Development Methods

• Subject-Oriented Programming (invited talk)
  J. M. Coggins
• Creating an Object-Oriented Software System---The AIPS++ Experience (invited talk)
  B. E. Glendenning
• NICMOS Calibration Pipeline---A Collaborative Project Between IDT and STScI
  H. Bushouse, J. MacKenty, C. Skinner, D. Axon, E. Stobie and G. Schneider
• ASC Data Analysis Tool Architecture
  M. Conroy, S. Doe and J. Herrero
• Object-Oriented Modeling and Design for Sloan Digital Sky Survey Retained Data
  C.-H. Huang, J. Munn, B. Yanny, S. Kent, D. Petravick, R. Pordes, A. Szalay and R. Brunner
• The Gemini Project's Software Development Methodology
  R. J. McGonegal
• GNOMES: A Case History
  W. K. Young

Programming Methodologies and System Software

• Data Structures in STIS and NICMOS
  A. Farris
• perl as an Astronomer-Friendly Language---the pgperl Experience
  K. Glazebrook
• The OPUS Pipeline Managers
  J. Rose, T. H. Choo and M. A. Rose
• Programming in Glish
  D. R. Schiebel
• GUI Tools in AIPS++
  P. Shannon
• PC-IRAF: The Choice of a GNU Generation
  D. Tody and M. Fitzpatrick
• Lessons Learned: The Object-Oriented Design of StarView
  J. J. Travisano
• A FITS Image Extension Kernel for IRAF
  N. Zarate and P. Greenfield

Real-Time Systems

• AIPS++ and the GBT (invited talk)
  R. W. Garwood
• The Design of the Gemini Observatory Control System (invited talk)
  K. Gillies and S. Walker
• A Friendly Command, Control, and Information System for Astronomy (invited talk)
  J. T. McGraw, N. Duric, M. Sjulin, S. Slezak and D. Westpfahl
• The Gemini Core Instrument Control System
  S. M. Beard
• The Gemini Interlock System---An EPICS Application
  M. Burns
  
• A High Speed Network for Remote Observing from Caltech with the Keck Telescope
  J. G. Cohen, L. Bergman and P. L. Shopbell
• The University of Iowa Automated Telescope Facility
  E. C. Downey and R. L. Mutel
• Remote Eavesdropping via the World Wide Web
  F. Economou, A. Bridger, P. N. Daly and G. S. Wright
• The Gemini Data Handling System
  S. Gaudet
• Remote Observations in the Near Infrared
  V. Gavryusev, C. Baffa and E. Giani
• The VLT Real Time Display
  T. Herlin, A. Brighton and P. Biereichel
• Automatic Sequencing for Experimental Protocols
  P. F. Hsieh and I. Stern
• Connection Between the SUBARU Data Analysis System and the Observation Control System
  G. Kosugi, Y. Mizumoto, T. Sasaki, J. Noumaru, Y. Chikada, T. Takata, Y. Ishihara, J. Kawai and A. Kidou
• The Integration of Telescopes, Instruments, and User Interfaces at KPNO and WIYN
  B. Marshall, K. Gillies and J. Lewis
• The Gemini Telescope Control System
  C. Mayer, R. Laing, P. B. Taylor and P. T. Wallace
• Quicklook IRAF Scripts for Data Acquisition Management
  K. M. Merrill
• Wide Area Synchronization to the 10ms Level
  J. Moran, S. Keleti and P. F. Hsieh
• Displaying Drift Scanning Images from Multiple CCDs in Real-Time During Data Acquisition
  T. Nicinski
• Superfast Photometry with MANIA Complex
  V. F. Shvartsman, I. N. Bernstein, G. M. Beskin, V. N. Komarova, S. I. Neizvestny, V. L. Plokhotnichenko, M. Y. Popova and A. V. Zhuravkov
• Remote Observing and Automatic FTP on Kitt Peak
  R. Seaman and B. Bohannan
• Real-Time Observing at Hat Creek
  W. Hoffman, J. Hudson, R. K. Sharpe, A. W. Grossman, J. A. Morgan and P. J. Teuben
• Development and Deployment of a Rule-Based Expert System for Autonomous Satellite Monitoring
  L. Wong, F. Kronberg, A. Hopkins, F. Machi and P. Eastham

Proposal Processing: Planning and Scheduling

• A Tcl/Tk-Based, Intelligent Graphical Editor for Preparing HST Programs
  D. J. Asson, A. Bose and A. Krueger
• An Automated System for Receiving KPNO Proposals by Electronic Mail
  D. J. Bell, C. D. Biemesderfer, J. Barnes and P. Massey
• The RPS2 Generic Distributed Computing Framework
  R. E. Douglas and R. E. Jackson
• The Changing Scene at NASA Headquarters
  S. Howard
• A High Capacity Object Oriented Mission Scheduling System for XTE
  E. Johnson and A. Antunes
• Portable Astronomical Scheduling Tools
  G. E. Miller and A. Bose

Archives and Databases

• Archives of Data from Ground-Based Observatories (invited talk)
  D. R. Crabtree, D. Durand, S. Gaudet and N. Hill
• Archiving TNG Data (invited talk)
  F. Pasian
• The Aladin Project: Status Report
  J. G. Bartlett, F. Bonnarel, D. Egret, F. Genova, H. Ziaeepour, O. Bienaymé, F. Ochsenbein, M. Crézé, J. Florsch, M. Louys and P. Paillou
• The Science Archive for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  R. J. Brunner, I. Csabai, A. Szalay, A. J. Connolly, G. P. Szokoly and K. Ramaiyer
• Options for Improving Retrieval Performance of the Hubble Data Archive
  T. Comeau
• An On-Line Database of APS POSS Images
  C. S. Cornuelle, G. Aldering, A. Sourov, P. Thurmes and R. M. Humphreys
• The CADC/ST-ECF Archives of HST Data: Less is More
  D. R. Crabtree, D. Durand, S. Gaudet, N. Hill and B. Pirenne
• Transforming Images into Icons to Remotely Retrieve Information from Astronomical Archives
  A. Csillaghy
• Storing and Distributing GONG Data
  W. Erdwurm and J. A. Pintar
• Associating Science Exposures with Calibration Exposures in the CFHT Data Archive
  N. Hill, S. Gaudet, D. Crabtree, D. Durand and J. Louie
• Availability of Copernicus UV Data in FITS Format
  D. A. Klinglesmith III, G. Sonneborn, R. S. Polidan, R. W. Thompson, L. L. Taylor, M. T. Carini, P. J. Lawton and M. E. Van Steenberg
• Re-Classification of HST Targets
  B. Pirenne and F. Murtagh
• WISARD: A Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data
  N. A. Oliversen, P. J. Lawton and M. E. VanSteenberg
• A Multi-Mission Archive
  E. C. Olson, F. Girouard and A. Hopkins
• Starbase: A User Centered Database for Astronomy
  J. Roll
• The XTE FITS Database (XFDB)
  A. H. Rots

Electronic Information Systems

• Electronic Publishing at the American Astronomical Society (invited talk)
  P. B. Boyce and C. Biemesderfer
• The EUVE Knowledge Base
  M. Abbott
• The ADS Article Service Data Holdings and Access Methods
  A. Accomazzi, C. S. Grant, G. Eichhorn, M. J. Kurtz and S. S. Murray
• The Evolving Resource Metadata Infrastructure
  C. Biemesderfer
• An Enriched Meta-Information Schema for Astronomical Databases
  S. C. Calvo, N. E. White, T. A. McGlynn, M. M. Duesterhaus, C. A. Rosen and E. J. Sabol
• Various Access Methods to the Abstracts in the Astrophysics Data System
  G. Eichhorn, A. Accomazzi, C. S. Grant, M. J. Kurtz and S. S. Murray
• CCMA/ESF: The European Scientific Network on Converging Computing Methodologies in Astronomy
  M. C. Maccarone, F. Murtagh and A. Bijaoui
• The Astronomical Software Directory Service: Distributed Documents---Centralized Searchable Index
  H. E. Payne, R. J. Hanisch and A. Warnock
• The NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library
  R. L. Plante, R. M. Crutcher and R. K. Sharpe
• Data Distribution and Ph.D. Publication via the World Wide Web
  K. M. Strom
• The Electronic Astrophysical Journal: Resource Location and Archive Management
  A. Warnock III and J. M. Fullton