IRAS software analysis library

Abstract

The goal of this project was to collect 'research software' written in Interactive Data Language (IDL) to support analysis of data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and make it available to the larger community. 'Research Software' describes software created by researchers and staff for a specific research goal, but lacks sufficient documentation, easy to use interfaces, and rigorous debugging. Additionally, most of the IDL/IRAS code available needed to be ported to a (largely) hardware independent new version of IDL.