Poster Previews for Conference 9909: Adaptive Optics Systems V - Part 2 of 2

The Software Package AIRY (Astronomical Image Restoration in interferometrY) is a complete tool for simulation and deconvolution of astronomical data, which can be either a post-adaptive-optics image from a single dish telescope or a set of multiple images from a Fizeau interferometer. IDL-based and freely downloadable, the Software Package AIRY is a scientific package of the CAOS Problem-Solving Environment. It is made of different modules, each one performing a specific task: Simulation, pre-processing, deconvolution, and analysis of the data. We here present its last version, containing a new optimized method for the deconvolution problem based on the scaled-gradient projection (SGP) algorithm extended with different regularization functions, and a new module based on our multi-component method. Finally, we provide a few example projects describing our multi-step approach recently developed for deblurring of high dynamic range images. By using AIRY v. 7.0, users have a powerful tool for simulating the observations and for reconstructing their real data.