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We present a mock catalog of Milky Way stars, matching in volume and depth the content of the Gaia data release 2 (GDR2). We generated our catalog using Galaxia, a tool to sample stars from a Besancon Galactic model, together with a…

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In view of increased interest in object-oriented systems for describing coordinate information, we present a description of the data model used by the Starlink AST library. AST provides a comprehensive range of facilities for attaching…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-04 David Berry , Rodney Warren-Smith , Tim Jenness

Lyman $\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) emission from star-forming galaxies is an important tool to study a large range of astrophysical questions: it has the potential to carry information about the source galaxy, its nearby circumgalactic medium, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-11 Axel Runnholm , Max Gronke , Matthew Hayes

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

The GSC-II is an all-sky database of objects derived from the uncompressed DSS that the STScI has created from the Palomar and UK Schmidt survey plates and made available to the community. Like its predecessor (GSC-I), the GSC-II was…

In this paper we present the "Small Bodies: Near and Far" Infrared Database, an easy-to-use tool intended to facilitate the modeling of thermal emission of small Solar System bodies. Our database collects thermal emission measurements of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Róbert Szakáts , Thomas Müller , Víctor Alí-Lagoa , Gábor Marton , Anikó Farkas-Takács , Evelin Bányai , Csaba Kiss

We describe the current status of CATS, a publicly accessible database (web-server http://cats.sao.ru) allowing one to search in hundreds of catalogs of astronomical objects discovered all along the electromagnetic spectrum. Our emphasis is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 O. V. Verkhodanov , S. A. Trushkin , H. Andernach , V. N. Chernenkov

We estimate the fidelity of solar neighborhood (D < 100 pc) catalogs soon to be derived from Pan-STARRS astrometric data. We explore two quantities used to measure catalog quality: completeness, the fraction of desired sources included in a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Christopher N. Beaumont , Eugene A. Magnier

BASS 2000 is the French solar database for ground-based instruments. We describe hereafter our organization, our tasks and the products we can deliver to the international community. Our prospects cover data mining into the THeMIS archive,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-17 F. Paletou , M. Lafon , P. Maeght , F. Grimaud , T. Louge , J. Aboudarham

The Galactica simulation database is a platform designed to assist computational astrophysicists with their open science approach based on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles. It offers the means to publish their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Damien Chapon , Patrick Hennebelle

We present a database created within the project on studying edge-on galaxies. These galaxies provide a unique opportunity to study the three-dimensional distribution of the matter in galaxy disks, which is extremely important for analyzing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 D. I. Makarov , A. V. Antipova

We present a new catalogue of 5,106 infrared bubbles created through visual classification via the online citizen science website 'The Milky Way Project'. Bubbles in the new catalogue have been independently measured by at least 5…

astroquery is a collection of tools for requesting data from databases hosted on remote servers with interfaces exposed on the internet, including those with web pages but without formal application program interfaces (APIs). These tools…

Data access and interoperability module connects the observation proposals, data, virtual machines and software. According to the unique identifier of PI (principal investigator), an email address or an internal ID, data can be collected by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Dongwei Fan , Boliang He , Jian Xiao , Shanshan Li , Changhua Li , Chenzhou Cui , Ce Yu , Zhi Hong , Shucheng Yin , Chuanjun Wang , Zihuang Cao , Yufeng Fan , Linying Mi , Wanghui Wan , Jianguo Wang

We present BAX, Base de Donn\'ees amas de galaxies X (http://webast.ast.obs-mip.fr/bax), a project aiming at building a comprehensive database dedicated to X-rays clusters of galaxies allowing detailed information retrieval. BAX provides…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Sadat , A. Blanchard , C. Mendiboure

The NASA/IPAC/NExScI Star and Exoplanet Database (NStED) is a general purpose stellar archive which supports NASA planet-finding and planet-characterization goals, stellar astrophysics, and the planning of NASA and other space missions.…

The catalog of hierarchical stellar systems with three or more components is an update of the original 1997 version of the MSC. For two thousand hierarchies, the new MSC provides distances, component's masses and periods, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Andrei Tokovinin

The increasing number and complexity of planetary exploration space missions require new tools to access, visualize and analyse data to improve their scientific return. ASI Science Data Center (ASDC) addresses this request with the web-tool…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-18 Angelo Zinzi , Maria Teresa Capria , Ernesto Palomba , Paolo Giommi , Lucio Angelo Antonelli

The Pan-STARRS Data Processing System is responsible for the steps needed to downloaded, archive, and process all images obtained by the Pan-STARRS telescopes, including real-time detection of transient sources such as supernovae and moving…

Data access -- or the availability of new and archival data for use by the larger community -- is key for scientific advancement. How data is presented, searched, and formatted determines accessibility and it can be difficult to find a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-21 Caleb Wheeler , Natalie R. Hinkel , Andrea Banzatti