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The next-generation astronomy archives will cover most of the universe at fine resolution in many wavelengths. One of the first of these projects, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will create a 5-wavelength catalog over 10,000 square…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Alexander S. Szalay , Peter Kunszt , Anirudha Thakar , Jim Gray , Don Slutz

Empirical models of supernova (SN) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are widely used for SN survey simulations and photometric classifications. The existing library of SED models has excellent optical templates but limited, poorly…

We describe the current status of CATS (astrophysical CATalogs Support system), a publicly accessible tool maintained at Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) (http://cats.sao.ru) allowing one to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. V. Verkhodanov , S. A. Trushkin , H. Andernach , V. N. Chernenkov

Supernovae emit large fluxes of neutrinos which can be detected by detectors on Earth. Future tonne-scale detectors will be sensitive to several neutrino interaction channels, with thousands of events expected if a supernova emerges in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 O. I. González-Reina , J. Rumleskie , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui

One of the brightest objects in the universe, supernovae (SNe) are powerful explosions marking the end of a star's lifetime. Supernova (SN) type is defined by spectroscopic emission lines, but obtaining spectroscopy is often logistically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Helen Qu , Masao Sako , Anais Moller , Cyrille Doux

Large modern surveys require efficient review of data in order to find transient sources such as supernovae, and to distinguish such sources from artefacts and noise. Much effort has been put into the development of automatic algorithms,…

Despite the importance of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) for modern astrophysics, their detailed mechanism is still not fully understood. In this contribution, we present recent findings from numerical explosion models in the context of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-04 Markus Kromer , Sebastian T. Ohlmann , Friedrich K. Roepke

USNO-B is an all-sky catalog that presents positions, proper motions, magnitudes in various optical passbands, and star/galaxy estimators for 1,042,618,261 objects derived from 3,643,201,733 separate observations. The data were obtained…

The ever-growing sample of observed supernovae enhances our capacity for comprehensive supernova population studies, providing a richer dataset for understanding the diverse characteristics of Type Ia supernovae and possibly that of their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Chang Bi , Tyrone E. Woods , Sébastien Fabbro

The Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer has proven to be an incredible platform for studying the multiwavelength properties of supernova explosions. In its first ten years, Swift has observed over three hundred supernovae. The ultraviolet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-01 Peter J. Brown , Peter W. A. Roming , Peter A. Milne

Swift has observed over three hundred supernovae in its first ten years. Photometry from the Ultra-Violet Optical Telescope (UVOT) is being compiled in the Swift Optical/Ultraviolet Supernovae Archive (SOUSA). The diversity of supernovae…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-07 Peter J. Brown

Many applications in transient science, gravitational wave follow-up, and galaxy population studies require all-sky galaxy catalogs with reliable distances, extents, and stellar masses. However, existing catalogs often lack completeness…

We present TARDIS - an open-source code for rapid spectral modelling of supernovae (SNe). Our goal is to develop a tool that is sufficiently fast to allow exploration of the complex parameter spaces of models for SN ejecta. This can be used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf , Stuart A. Sim

The proliferation of open-source scientific software for science and research presents opportunities and challenges. In this paper, we introduce the SciCat dataset -- a comprehensive collection of Free-Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Addi Malviya-Thakur , Reed Milewicz , Lavinia Paganini , Ahmed Samir Imam Mahmoud , Audris Mockus

The increasing volume and complexity of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) data generated at synchrotron facilities worldwide require robust infrastructure for data management, sharing, and analysis. This paper introduces the XAS Database…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Denis Spasyuk

Multi-messenger astrophysics will enable the discovery of new astrophysical neutrino sources and provide information about the mechanisms that drive these objects. We present a curated online catalog of astrophysical neutrino candidates.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 Chujie Chen , Charles Cardot

Computational notebooks, such as Jupyter Notebook, have become data scientists' de facto programming environments. Many visualization researchers and practitioners have developed interactive visualization tools that support notebooks, yet…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zijie J. Wang , David Munechika , Seongmin Lee , Duen Horng Chau

Supernovae classes have been defined phenomenologically, based on spectral features and time series data, since the specific details of the physics of the different explosions remain unrevealed. However, the number of these classes is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 William Davison , David Parkinson , Brad E. Tucker

GAIA is the ``super-Hipparcos'' satellite scheduled for launch in 2010 by the European Space Agency. It is a scanning satellite that carries out multi-colour, multi-epoch photometry on all objects brighter than 20th magnitude. We conduct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Belokurov , N. W. Evans