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Visualization, Exploration and Data Analysis of Complex Astrophysical Data

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

In this paper we show how advanced visualization tools can help the researcher in investigating and extracting information from data. The focus is on VisIVO, a novel open source graphics application, which blends high performance multidimensional visualization techniques and up-to-date technologies to cooperate with other applications and to access remote, distributed data archives. VisIVO supports the standards defined by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance in order to make it interoperable with VO data repositories. The paper describes the basic technical details and features of the software and it dedicates a large section to show how VisIVO can be used in several scientific cases.

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@article{arxiv.0707.2474,
  title  = {Visualization, Exploration and Data Analysis of Complex Astrophysical Data},
  author = {Marco Comparato and Ugo Becciani and Alessandro Costa and Bjorn Larsson and Bianca Garilli and Claudio Gheller and John Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2474},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

32 pages, 15 figures, accepted by PASP

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