gamma-sky.net: Portal to the Gamma-Ray Sky
Abstract
Gamma-sky.net is a novel interactive website designed for exploring the gamma-ray sky. The Map View portion of the site is powered by the Aladin Lite sky atlas, providing a scalable survey image tesselated onto a three-dimensional sphere. The map allows for interactive pan and zoom navigation as well as search queries by sky position or object name. The default image overlay shows the gamma-ray sky observed by the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray space telescope. Other survey images (e.g. Planck microwave images in low/high frequency bands, ROSAT X-ray image) are available for comparison with the gamma-ray data. Sources from major gamma-ray source catalogs of interest (Fermi-LAT 2FHL, 3FGL and a TeV source catalog) are overlaid over the sky map as markers. Clicking on a given source shows basic information in a popup, and detailed pages for every source are available via the Catalog View component of the website, including information such as source classification, spectrum and light-curve plots, and literature references. We intend for gamma-sky.net to be applicable for both professional astronomers as well as the general public. The website started in early June 2016 and is being developed as an open-source, open data project on GitHub (https://github.com/gammapy/gamma-sky). We plan to extend it to display more gamma-ray and multi-wavelength data. Feedback and contributions are very welcome!
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1709.04217,
title = {gamma-sky.net: Portal to the Gamma-Ray Sky},
author = {Arjun Voruganti and Christoph Deil and Axel Donath and Johannes King},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.04217},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
6th International Meeting on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Heidelberg, 2016. 6 pages, 5 figures. Website: http://gamma-sky.net