Some software packages are automatically available to all users (they are included in the default PATH), while others are made available via the modules system

Start Mathematica using the command mathematica for the XWindows notebook-style interface, or math for the terminal-based interface.

• More info at http://documents.wolfram.com/

Matlab recently moved into the modules system (so use “module load matlab” to activate it).

After loading the module, matLab is started using the matlab command. Extensive online help is available.

The official documentation for ROOT may be found at http://root.cern.ch/, but you should also check the much more useful local documentation

Plotting program, type sm to run. More info at http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/sm and possibly from http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/rstanek/sm.html.

These applications and packages are available by default only to users in the astro group.

Space Telescope Grants Management System. Type stgms to run.

Spitzer Pride includes Spot (Tool for Planning Observations) and Leopard (Archive Tool). Spot is a software package used by Spitzer observers to plan observations and submit proposals, and Leopard is a software package used to query the archive and download data.

Available via UPS setup spitzer_pride command.

The Spitzer IRS Custom Extraction (SPICE) software provides a JAVA-based tool that allows the user to interactively extract Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) spectra.

Type spice.csh to run.