Abstract

Montage is a portable software toolkit to construct custom, science-grade mosaics that preserve the astrometry and photometry of astronomical sources. The user specifies the dataset, wavelength, sky location, mosaic size, coordinate system, projection, and spatial sampling. Montage supports massive astronomical datasets that may be stored in distributed archives. Montage can be run on both single- and multi-processor computers, including clusters and grids. Standard grid tools are used to access remote data or run Montage on remote computers. This paper describes the architecture, algorithms, performance, and usage of Montage as both a software toolkit and a grid portal.

Metadata

publication

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 4 (2), 73-87, 2009

year

2009

publication date

2009/1/1

authors

Joseph C Jacob, Daniel S Katz, G Bruce Berriman, John C Good, Anastasia Laity, Ewa Deelman, Carl Kesselman, Gurmeet Singh, Mei-Hui Su, Thomas Prince, Roy Williams

link

https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJCSE.2009.026999

resource_link

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1005.4454

journal

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering

volume

4

issue

2

pages

73-87

publisher

Inderscience Publishers