Optimistic Pattern Matching (OPM)

Last Updated:  2011 Jul 23

OPM is a pattern matching utility to relate stellar centroids to a reference catalog. Win32 and LINUX executables, built with MSVC 6.0 and gcc 4.1.2, are provided for non-commerical, academic research purposes only.


Algorithm description:

Fast Algorithms for Matching CCD Images to a Stellar Catalogue  Tabur, 2007, PASA, 24, 189   Pre-print (astro-ph)


LINUX and Win32 binaries:

 v1.3, 23 Jul 2011 (245245 bytes, includes PDF documentation)

 v1.0, 15 Dec 2007 (94853 bytes)


Other Implementations

 OPM_A by Dr. Noriyuki Matsunaga (Japanese page) Translated to English


Problems or questions?

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