Montage: A grid portal and software toolkit for science-grade astronomical image mosaicking

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

doi:10.1504/IJCSE.2009.026999

Montage: A grid portal and software toolkit for science-grade astronomical image mosaicking

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

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	73-87
Number of pages	15
Journal	International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCSE.2009.026999
State	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Astronomy
Grid portal
Image mosaic
TeraGrid
Virtual observatory

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Modeling and Simulation
Hardware and Architecture
Computational Mathematics
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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Jacob, J. C., Katz, D. S., Berriman, G. B., Good, J. C., Laity, A. C., Deelman, E., Kesselman, C., Singh, G., Su, M. H., Prince, T. A., & Williams, R. (2009). Montage: A grid portal and software toolkit for science-grade astronomical image mosaicking. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 4(2), 73-87. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCSE.2009.026999

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