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Over the past few years, the role of visualization for scientific purpose has grown up enormously. Astronomy makes an extended use of visualization techniques to analyze data, and scientific visualization has became a fundamental part of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , C. Gheller , L. Calori , F. Buonomo , S. Imboden

Scatterplots are one of the simplest and most commonly-used visualizations for understanding quantitative, multidimensional data. However, since scatterplots only depict two attributes at a time, analysts often need to manually generate and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Doris Jung-Lin Lee , Jaewoo Kim , Renxuan Wang , Aditya Parameswaran

ALMA is estimated to generate TB scale data during only one observation; astronomers manage to identify which part of the data they are really interested in. Now we have been developing new GUI software for this purpose utilizing the VO…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-19 Satoshi Eguchi , Wataru Kawasaki , Yuji Shirasaki , Yutaka Komiya , George Kosugi , Masatoshi Ohishi , Yoshihiko Mizumoto

Context: The first Gaia data release (DR1) delivered a catalogue of astrometry and photometry for over a billion astronomical sources. Within the panoply of methods used for data exploration, visualisation is often the starting point and…

The Asteroseismic Modeling Portal (AMP) provides a web-based interface for astronomers to run and view simulations that derive the properties of Sun-like stars from observations of their pulsation frequencies. In this paper, we describe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Matthew Woitaszek , Travis Metcalfe , Ian Shorrock

The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, one of three core programs of the fourth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV), is producing a massive, high-dimensional integral field spectroscopic data set.…

This paper introduces Polyphorm, an interactive visualization and model fitting tool that provides a novel approach for investigating cosmological datasets. Through a fast computational simulation method inspired by the behavior of Physarum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-08 Oskar Elek , Joseph N. Burchett , J. Xavier Prochaska , Angus G. Forbes

This paper proposes a visual analytics framework that addresses the complex user interactions required through a command-line interface to run analyses in distributed data analysis systems. The visual analytics framework facilitates the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Abdullah-Al-Raihan Nayeem , Mohammed Elshambakey , Todd Dobbs , Huikyo Lee , Daniel Crichton , Yimin Zhu , Chanachok Chokwitthaya , William J. Tolone , Isaac Cho

SPOT is an open source and free visual data analytics tool for multi-dimensional data-sets. Its web-based interface allows a quick analysis of complex data interactively. The operations on data such as aggregation and filtering are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Faruk Diblen , Jisk Attema , Rena Bakhshi , Sascha Caron , Luc Hendriks , Bob Stienen

We present PlanetPack, a new software tool that we developed to facilitate and standardize the advanced analysis of radial velocity (RV) data for the goal of exoplanets detection, characterization, and basic dynamical $N$-body simulations.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 Roman V. Baluev

We present Visplot, a free, open-source, web-based tool for hardware-aware visibility analysis and heuristic scheduling of both sidereal and non-sidereal astronomical observations. Visplot computes visibility windows as finite unions of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Emanuel Gafton , Illa R. Losada

Advances in computational chemistry have produced high-dimensional datasets on atmospherically relevant molecules. To aid exploration of such datasets, particularly for the study of atmospheric aerosol formation, we introduce PhiPlot: a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Matias Loukojärvi , Ananth Mahadevan , Katsiaryna Haitsiukevich , Kai Puolamäki

Panoramic IFU spectroscopy is a core tool of modern observational astronomy and is especially important for galaxy physics. Many massive IFU surveys, such as SDSS MaNGA (10k targets), SAMI (3k targets), Califa (600 objects), Atlas3D (260…

Punzo et al. (2015) recently reported on the state of the art for visualisation of H I data cubes. I here briefly describe another program, FRELLED, specifically designed for dealing with H I data. Unlike many 3D viewers, FRELLED can handle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Rhys Taylor

AstroStat is an easy-to-use tool for performing statistical analysis on data. It has been designed to be compatible with Virtual Observatory (VO) standards thus enabling it to become an integral part of the currently available collection of…

A direct detection of gravitational waves is one of the most exciting frontiers for modern astronomy and astrophysics. Gravitational wave signals combined with classical electro-magnetic observations, known as multi-messenger astronomy,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-31 Satoshi Eguchi , Shota Shibagaki , Kazuhiro Hayama , Kei Kotake

In this article we report the release of a new program for batch processing and visualization of powder diffraction data. The program, which is free-of-charge for non-commercial use and can be obtained with its detailed documentation from…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-12-05 Taha Sochi

Graph analytics is widely used in many fields to analyze various complex patterns. However, in most cases, important data in companies is stored in RDBMS's, and so, it is necessary to extract graphs from relational databases to perform…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jeongho Park , Geonho Lee , Min-Soo Kim

Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri

Most research data collections created or used by astronomers are intrinsically multi-dimensional. In contrast, all visual representations of data presented within research papers are exclusively 2-dimensional. We present a resolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke