It has become common for people to use Sersic model profiles for galaxy simulations. ARTDATA only had exponential disks (Sersic index of 1) and De Vaucouleurs model (Sersic index of 4). General Sersic profiles have been added to ARTDATA for future releases of the noao package and is also available now as a patch.

The Science Software Branch of the Space Telescope Science Institute wishes to announce the availability of version 3.12 of the Space Telescope Science Data Analysis Software (STSDAS). Concurrent with the STSDAS release, we have also released v3.12 of the TABLES external package. ....

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The Science Software Branch of the Space Telescope Science Institute wishes to announce the availability of version 3.11 of the Space Telescope Science Data Analysis Software (STSDAS). Concurrent with the STSDAS release, we have also released v3.11 of the TABLES external package. ...

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Note: OSX (PPC) and Tiger-compatible binaries may be found in the iraf.net download area.

For those so inclined....

July 28, 2009 A new version of the GEMINI IRAF package is now available. This version, v1.10, requires at minimum IRAF 2.12.2a, but IRAF 2.14 is recommended. The package is now compatible with PyRAF as well as the CL environment. At this time, PyRAF is not required. For those who wish to use PyRAF, the mininum requirement is PyRAF v1.5 and stsci_python v2.6. Announcement available here

NFEXTERN is an external IRAF package designed specifically for the reduction of NEWFIRM (an IR mosaic camera) instrument data, but which is also useful for other IR and mosaic reductions. It includes updated tasks found in MSCRED as well as catalog tools found in the ACE package. The package is now available from the downloads area and the ftp archive at NOAO.

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The Science Software Branch of the Space Telescope Science Institute wishes to announce the availability of version 3.10 of the Space Telescope Science Data Analysis Software (STSDAS). Concurrent with the STSDAS release, we have also released v3.10 of the TABLES external package. .....

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The Astronomy Tools and Applications Branch of the Space Telescope Science Institute wishes to announce the availability of version 3.9 of the Space Telescope Science Data Analysis Software (STSDAS). Concurrent with the STSDAS release, we have also released v3.9 of the TABLES external package.....

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The X11IRAF v2.0 release featuring XImtool support for 24-bit displays is now available as a beta release for general use from the following distribution links:

Limited internal-testing has shown this package is stable enough for wider testing within the user-community, however it should be remembered this is a Beta-release and some problems and platform-specific issues might still be found (but are expected to be easily solved). Known issues (and existing features for those not familiar with XImtool) are outlined in the release notes for V2.0 or the original V1.3 notes.

This release provides only the existing X11IRAF applications with 24-bit X11 display support. Please reply with any comments, suggestions or bug-reports.

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The Astronomy Tools and Applications Branch of the Space Telescope Science Institute wishes to announce the availability of version 3.7 of the Space Telescope Science Data Analysis Software (STSDAS). Concurrent with the STSDAS release, we have also released v3.7 of the TABLES external package.....

Changelog and download details in the body of the story. Comments should go to help@stsci.edu, especially those needing a Windows port.