The initial version of APT was released on November 2, 2007. The latest version is APT , v. 2.8 .2 , released on April 29, 2019. The software was developed by Dr. Russ Laher, a member of the professional staff at the Spitzer Science Center, part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology. A paper on APT was published in July 2012 in the journal Publications of the Astronomy Society of the Pacific. A companion paper compares the performance of APT vs. SExtractor, an established command-line software program for aperture photometry.
The initial version of APT was released on November 2, 2007. The latest version is APT v. 2.8 .4 , released on April 22, 2020. The software was developed by Dr. Russ Laher, a member of the professional staff at the Spitzer Science Center, part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology. A paper on APT was published in July 2012 in the journal Publications of the Astronomy Society of the Pacific. A companion paper compares the performance of APT vs. SExtractor, an established command-line software program for aperture photometry.
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