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We describe the development of the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) Data Discovery Service, a web-based dashboard that returns metadata for wide-area queries of the entire archive in seconds. Currently in beta, this dashboard will support…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 R. Moseley , G. Bruce Berriman , Christopher R. Gelino , John C. Good , Toba Oluyide

We introduce OpenEvents V1a large-scale benchmark dataset designed to advance event-centric vision-language understanding. Unlike conventional image captioning and retrieval datasets that focus on surface-level descriptions, OpenEvents V1…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Hieu Nguyen , Phuc-Tan Nguyen , Thien-Phuc Tran , Minh-Quang Nguyen , Tam V. Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is in its early stages, but already some aspects of the EOSC vision are starting to become reality, for example the EOSC portal and the development of metadata catalogues. In the astrophysical domain…

As several large single-dish radio surveys begin operation within the coming decade, a wealth of radio data will become available and provide a new window to the Universe. In order to fully exploit the potential of these data sets, it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-16 Joel Akeret , Sebastian Seehars , Chihway Chang , Christian Monstein , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

Astronomy has always been at the forefront of information technology, moving from the era of photographic plates, to digital snapshots and now to digital movies of the sky. This has brought about a data explosion with multi- terabyte…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-06 Ashish Mahabal , Ajit Kembhavi , Roy Williams , Sharmad Navelkar

There is a growing need for massive computational resources for the analysis of new astronomical datasets. To tackle this problem, we present here our first steps towards marrying two new and emerging technologies; the Virtual Observatory…

The ever-growing datasets in observational astronomy have challenged scientists in many aspects, including an efficient and interactive data exploration and visualization. Many tools have been developed to confront this challenge. However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 W. Yu , M. Carrasco Kind , R. J. Brunner

The nature of scientific and technological data collection is evolving rapidly: data volumes and rates grow exponentially, with increasing complexity and information content, and there has been a transition from static data sets to data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. G. Djorgovski , A. A. Mahabal , C. Donalek , M. J. Graham , A. J. Drake , M. Turmon , T. Fuchs

The Variable Star One-shot Project (VSOP) aimed at providing to the world-wide stellar community the necessary one-shot spectrum of unstudied variable stars, too often classified as such by an analysis of photometric data only. The VSOP has…

Time-domain astrophysics is a rapidly growing field focused on the study of transient phenomena such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), supernovae, novae, and AGN flares. Their characterization increasingly relies on a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Bernardo Cornejo Avila , Sofia Bisero , Mickäel Costa , Antoine Ciric , Ilja Jaroschewski , Weizmann Kiendrébéogo , Fabian Schüssler

The increase of astronomical data produced by a new generation of observational tools poses the need to distribute data and to bring computation close to the data. Trying to answer this need, we set up a federated data and computing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-08 Sara Bertocco , Brian Major , Patrick Dowler , Séverin Gaudet , Fabio Pasian , Giuliano Taffoni

ADARI (Astronomical DAta Reporting Infrastructure) is a system designed for creating graphical reports of astronomical data so that the quality of these products can be assessed. It has been designed from the ground up to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 C. E. García-Dabó , P. Beirao , Z. Kostrzewa , A. Gabasch , B. Wolff , M. White , M. Deshpande , B. Miszalski , P. Corcho-Caballero , C. Onken , A. Heng , M. González

Traditional searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) or "technosignatures" focus on dedicated observations of single stars or regions in the sky to detect excess or transient emission from intelligent sources. The newest generation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 James. R. A. Davenport

The study of transient and variable low-frequency radio sources is a key goal for LOFAR, with an extremely broad science case ranging from relativistic jets sources to pulsars, exoplanets, radio bursts at cosmological distances, the…

We present the S-PLUS Transient Extension Program (STEP): a supernova and fast transient survey conducted in the southern hemisphere using data from the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) Main Survey and the T80-South…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 A. Santos , C. D. Kilpatrick , C. R. Bom , P. Darc , F. R. Herpich , E. A. D. Lacerda , M. J. Sartori , A. Alvarez-Candal , C. Mendes de Oliveira , A. Kanaan , T. Ribeiro , W. Schoenell

1. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) coupled with artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an essential tool for biodiversity monitoring. Traditional PAM systems require manual data offloading and impose substantial demands on storage and…

The SkyMapper 1.3 m telescope at Siding Spring Observatory has now begun regular operations. Alongside the Southern Sky Survey, a comprehensive digital survey of the entire southern sky, SkyMapper will carry out a search for supernovae and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Richard Scalzo , Fang Yuan , Michael J. Childress , Anais Moller , Brian Schmidt , Brad E. Tucker , Bonnie Zhang , Pierre Astier , Marc Betoule , Nicolas Regnault

This paper introduces ASCENT (context Aware Spectrum Coexistence Design and Implementation) toolset, an advanced context-aware terrestrial satellite spectrum sharing toolset designed for researchers, policymakers, and regulators. It serves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Ta-seen Reaz Niloy , Saurav Kumar , Aniruddha Hore , Zoheb Hassan , Carl Dietrich , Eric W. Burger , Jeffrey H. Reed , Vijay K. Shah

The rapid release of accurate sky localization for gravitational-wave candidates is crucial for multi-messenger observations. During the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, automated gravitational-wave alerts were…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-22 Miriam Cabero , Ashish Mahabal , Jess McIver

Upcoming HI surveys will deliver large datasets, and automated processing using the full 3-D information (two positional dimensions and one spectral dimension) to find and characterize HI objects is imperative. In this context,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-02 D. Punzo , J. M. van der Hulst , J. B. T. M. Roerdink , T. A. Oosterloo , M. Ramatsoku , M. A. W. Verheijen