GILDAS is a collection of state-of-the-art softwares oriented toward (sub-)millimeter radioastronomical applications (either single-dish or interferometer). It is daily used to reduce all data acquired with the IRAM 30M telescope and Plateau de Bure Interferometer PDBI (except VLBI observations). GILDAS is easily extensible. GILDAS is written in Fortran-90, with a few parts in C/C++ (mainly keyboard interaction, plotting, widgets).

oct-09

ASTRO is now able to setup observations for the next PdBI correlator, which should arrive at Bure end of 2009, beginning of 2010.

sep-09

MIRA now fully support EMIR (standard and polarimetry modes).

aug-09

A memo describing the detailed behavior of the CLASS AVERAGE command (including the recent bug fixes) is available here: http://www.iram-institute.org/medias/uploads/class-average.pdf

may-09

A recent version of ATM (by J.R.Pardo) is now interfaced to ASTRO.

apr-09

In CLASS, an LMV command was introduced to convert a gildas LMV data cube into a set of class spectra. The CUBE command, which was used to produce a spectrum cube from a set of spectra observed on a regular grid (e.g. rasters), is now replaced by the combination of TABLE and "XY_MAP /NOGRID".

feb-09

The time estimator for the new eight mixer receivers for the 30m telescope, EMIR, which will be installed in March/April 2009, is now available in ASTRO. Please note that only the sources (gildas-src-feb09c.tar.gz) and the FINK version of the MAC/OSX version are up-to-date. The MAC/OSX and Windows binaries do not contain the EMIR time estimator.

nov-08

CLASS spectra writing was considerably optimized for data files containing more than 100000 spectra.

jul-08

The FITS command now knows how to handle the CDi_j FITS keyword for rotated images. It also knows again how to read AIPS UVFITS data.

jun-08

There is a new binary version of GILDAS under Intel Mac. Gildas is now also available in Fink.

mar-08

There is a new binary version of GILDAS under WINDOWS.

feb-08

CLASS90 is now the default version of CLASS. Although still distributed in GILDAS, CLASS77 is now obsolescent, i.e. not maintained anymore. Reminder: CLASS90 has all the CLASS77 possibilities, plus a much improved On-The-Fly support (see IRAM memo 2005-1).

dec-07

GAUSSCLUMP is now part of the standard GILDAS compilation.

nov-07

Major overhaul of the gildas building system.

oct-07

ASTRO has been adaptated to support the new 2mm receivers for Plateau de Bure Interferometer.

jul-07

MIRA is now shipped with GILDAS.

jun-07

First release of a stable CLIC version tailored for the new generation of receivers at bure.

may-07

A fully new user interface for MAPPING.

apr-07

A fully new (POSIX compliant) interprocess communication for GILDAS.

mar-07

GILDAS now supports MacOSX on Intel processors.

feb-07

The REPROJECT task is able to use a template image that has a different velocity/frequency axis.

dec-06/jan-07

Fix of many small CLASS90 bugs.

nov-06

First steps towards a binding between PYTHON and SIC.

sep-06

Major upgrade of ASTRO to deal with the coming new generation of receivers at Bure.

jun-06

Improved support for NaN and Inf in SIC.

may-06

The XY_MAP command of CLASS90 now enables griding in a rotated frame compare to EQUATORIAL or GALACTIC.

apr-06

The handling of pointing has been fully rewritten in TELCAL with the introduction of the double beam fitting.

mar-06

GILDAS now supports 64–bit machines (only AMD64 and EMT64 processors) under Linux using ifort v9.0 compiler. Details here.

feb-06

CLASS90 is now shipped with GILDAS (see IRAM memo 2005-1).

jan-06

New PdBI extended configurations have been introduced in ASTRO and CLIC.