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Current and future astronomical surveys are producing catalogs with millions and billions of objects. On-line access to such big datasets for data mining and cross-correlation is usually as highly desired as unfeasible. Providing these…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Alexander S. Szalay , Jim Gray

We present astroplan - an open source, open development, Astropy affiliated package for ground-based observation planning and scheduling in Python. astroplan is designed to provide efficient access to common observational quantities such as…

We describe the construction and the properties of the SWIRE-SDSS database, a preliminary derivation of the Far-Infrared Local Luminosity Functions at 24/70/160 micron based on such a database and ways in which VO tools will allow to refine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Mattia Vaccari , Lucia Marchetti , Alberto Franceschini , Ismael Perez-Fournon

Accurate visualization of double star astrometric data is essential for effective analysis and interpretation. This article presents a Python toolkit designed for astronomers who need to plot measurements from diverse sources -- historical,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Xinyue Wang

The rapid growth in scale and complexity of both computational and observational astrophysics over the past decade necessitates efficient and intuitive methods for examining and visualizing large datasets. Here, I present {\it AstroBlend},…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-11 J. P. Naiman

This paper presents a novel pipeline for development of an efficient set of tools for extracting information from the video of a structure, captured by an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to produce as-built documentation to aid inspection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Ahmad Hasan , Ashraf Qadir , Ian Nordeng , Jeremiah Neubert

The study explored the usage of astronomical observations for the identification and tracking of artificial satellites. Spacecraft streaks on astronomical images are a growing issue for the astronomical community. The increasing number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Rositsa Miteva , Nikola Antonov , Adrian Sonka

We shall present with examples how analysis of astronomy data can be used for an educational purpose to train students in methods of data analysis, statistics, programming skills and research problems. Special reference will be made to our…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-01-05 Priya Hasan , S N Hasan

The Pulsar Virtual Observatory will provide a means for scientists in all fields to access and analyze the large data sets stored in pulsar surveys without specific knowledge about the data or the processing mechanisms. This is achieved by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Keith , B. Harbulot , A. Lyne , J. Brooke

The visual inspection of image and catalog data continues to be a valuable aspect of astronomical data analysis. As the scale of astronomical image and catalog data continues to grow, visualizing the data becomes increasingly difficult. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-31 Ryan Hausen , Brant Robertson

The knowledge discovery potential of the new large astronomical databases is vast. When these are used in conjunction with the rich legacy data archives, the opportunities for scientific discovery multiply rapidly. A Virtual Observatory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirk D. Borne

Currently two query languages are defined as standards for the Virtual Observatory (VO). Astronomical Data Query Language (ADQL) is used for catalog data query and Simple Image Access Protocol (SIAP) is for image data query. As a result,…

Modern astronomical surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) provide extensive astronomical databases enabling researchers to access vast amount of diverse data. However, retrieving data from archives requires knowledge of query…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 Prathamesh Tamhane

ArchNEMESIS is an open-source Python package developed for the analysis of remote sensing spectroscopic observations of planetary atmospheres. It is based on the widely used NEMESIS radiative transfer and retrieval tool, which has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Juan Alday , Joseph Penn , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Jonathon P. Mason , Jingxuan Yang

Since 2003 the Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory (PVOL) has been storing and serving publicly through its web site a large database of amateur observations of the Giant Planets (Hueso et al., 2010a). These images are used for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 R. Hueso , J. Juaristi , J. Legarreta , A. Sanchez-Lavega , J. F. Rojas , S. Erard , B. Cecconi , Pierre Le Sidaner

We present the description of the project \texttt{SCORPIO}, a Python package for retrieving images and associated data of galaxy pairs based on their position, facilitating visual analysis and data collation of multiple archetypal systems.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-09 Jose A. Benavides , Martín Chalela , Juan B. Cabral , Bruno O. Sánchez , Sebastian Gurovich

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Science Archive is the first in a series of multi-Terabyte digital archives in Astronomy and other data-intensive sciences. To facilitate data mining in the SDSS archive, we adapted a commercial database engine…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Aniruddha R. Thakar , Alexander S. Szalay , Peter Z. Kunszt , Jim Gray

Virtual observatories allow the means by which an astronomer is able to discover, access, and process data seamlessly, regardless of its physical location. However, steep learning curves are often required to become proficient in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-27 K. Fitzgerald , L. -M. Browne , R. F. Butler

This manual accompanies the release of the particle data for 24 simulations of the EAGLE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation by the virgo consortium. It describes how to download these snapshots and how to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-03 The EAGLE team

Whether aimed for the study of the planetary systems, the distribution of the stars in the galaxies or the formation of the large-scale structures in the Universe, the sizes of numerical simulations are becoming increasingly important in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-17 F. Marin , J. Desroziers , A. Schaaff