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Exoplanet science often involves using the system parameters of real exoplanets for tasks such as simulations, fitting routines, and target selection for proposals. Several exoplanet catalogues are already well established but often lack a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ryan Varley

Next-generation telescopes will bring groundbreaking discoveries but they will also present new technological challenges. The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will be one of the most demanding scientific infrastructures, with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 I. Labadie-García , J. Garrido , L. Verdes-Montenegro , M. Á. Mendoza , M. Parra-Royón , S. Sánchez-Expósito , R. Ianjamasimanana

In this contribution we would like to emphasize the usefulness of data mining multiwavelength surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) or the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) -- which have become available to the public recently -- in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zuther , A. Eckart , W. Voges , T. Bertram , C. Straubmeier

Astronomical researchers often think of analysis and visualization as separate tasks. In the case of high-dimensional data sets, though, interactive exploratory data visualization can give far more insight than an approach where data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alyssa A. Goodman

Although the roles of data centers and computing centers are becoming more and more important, and on-line research is becoming the mainstream for astronomy, individual research based on locally hosted data is still very common. With the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-27 Chenzhou Cui , Dongwei Fan , Yongheng Zhao , Ajit Kembhavi , Boliang He , Zihuang Cao , Jian Li , Deoyani Nandrekar

ASCRIBE-XR, a novel computational platform designed to facilitate the visualization and exploration of 3D volumetric data and mesh data in the context of synchrotron experiments, is described. Using Godot and PC-VR technologies, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ronald J. Pandolfi , Jeffrey J. Donatelli , Julian Todd , Daniela Ushizima

With the implementation of many ambitious observation projects, including LAMOST, FAST, and Antarctic observatory at Doom A, observational astronomy in China is stepping into a brand new era with emerging data avalanche. In the era of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-13 Chenzhou Cui , Boliang He , Yang Yang , Yongheng Zhao

We review some aspects of the current state of data-intensive astronomy, its methods, and some outstanding data analysis challenges. Astronomy is at the forefront of "big data" science, with exponentially growing data volumes and data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-04 G. Longo , M. Brescia , S. G. Djorgovski , S. Cavuoti , C. Donalek

We introduce the Theoretical Astrophysical Observatory (TAO), an online virtual laboratory that houses mock observations of galaxy survey data. Such mocks have become an integral part of the modern analysis pipeline. However, building them…

We present the Survey Footprint Explorer (v2.5.0), a browser-based interactive tool for visualising and comparing the sky footprints of major astronomical imaging surveys. The tool is implemented entirely in client-side JavaScript and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 S. L. Ahad , R. Brilenkov , J. E. Taylor

Increasing quantities of scientific data are becoming readily accessible via online repositories such as those provided by Figshare and Zenodo. Geoscientific simulations in particular generate large quantities of data, with several research…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Christian T. Jacobs , Alexandros Avdis

This tutorial is devoted to extending an existing catalogue with data taken elsewhere, either from CDS Vizier or Simbad database. As an example, we used the so-called 'Spectroscopic Survey of Stars in the Solar Neighborhood' (aka. S4N,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-03 F. Paletou , I. Zolotukhin

We present a new Python library called vaex, to handle extremely large tabular datasets, such as astronomical catalogues like the Gaia catalogue, N-body simulations or any other regular datasets which can be structured in rows and columns.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Maarten A. Breddels , Jovan Veljanoski

Three cornerstones for the 3D data support in the Virtual Observatory are: (1) data model to describe them, (2) data access services providing access to fully-reduced datasets, and (3) client applications which can deal with 3D data.…

With the development of network and the World Wide Web (WWW), the Internet has been growing and changing dramatically. More and more on-line database systems and different kinds of services are available for astronomy research. How to help…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-29 Chen-Zhou CUI , Hua-Ping SUN , Yong-Heng ZHAO , Yu LUO , Da-Zhi QI

The desktop GUI catalogue analysis tool TOPCAT, and its command-line counterpart STILTS, offer among other capabilities visual exploration of locally stored tables containing millions of rows or more. They offer many variations on the theme…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Mark Taylor

We present a description of the public code XIM, a virtual X-ray observatory. XIM can be used to convert hydrodynamic simulations of astrophysical objects, such as large scale structure, galaxy clusters, groups, galaxies, supernova…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-03 S. Heinz , M. Brüggen

The increasing complexity and scale of scientific datasets demand advanced tools for efficient discovery and exploration. Traditional search systems often fall short in addressing the multidimensional nature of data and their intricate…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pawandeep Kaur Betz , Tobias Hecking , Andreas Gerndt

VOSviewer is a computer program for creating, visualizing, and exploring bibliometric maps of science. In this report, the new text mining functionality of VOSviewer is presented. A number of examples are given of applications in which…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2011-09-12 Nees Jan van Eck , Ludo Waltman

The Virtual Observatory Registry is a distributed directory of information systems and other resources relevant to astronomy. To make it useful, facilities to query that directory must be provided to humans and machines alike. This article…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-05 Markus Demleitner , Paul Harrison , Mark Taylor , Jonathan Normand