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This paper reviews and refers to the latest telematics technology that has turned the open system learning and helped it to become an institutional alternative to the face-to-face traditional one. Most technologies, briefly presented here,…

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This document summarises the UK astronomy community's science and technology priorities for funding and investments in the coming decades, following a series of national community consultations by the Astronomy Advisory Panel of the Science…

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In this paper we present a number of metrics for usage of the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). Since the ADS is used by the entire astronomical community, these are indicative of how the astronomical literature is used. We will show…

The Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) is an annual conference both organized for and by early career researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and students as a way to train the next generation of astrobiologists and develop a robust…

Previous studies conclusively show that pencil-and-paper lecture-tutorials (LTs) are incredibly effective at increasing student engagement and learning gains on a variety of topics when compared to traditional lecture. LTs in astronomy are…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-02-06 Haylee N. Archer , Molly N. Simon , Chris Mead , Edward E. Prather , Mia Brunkhorst , Diana Hunsley

The Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (Athena) is the X-ray observatory large mission selected by the European Space Agency (ESA), within its Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme, to address the "Hot and Energetic Universe"…

Professional astronomy is historically not an environment of diverse identities. In recognizing that public outreach efforts affect career outcomes for young people, it is important to assess the demographics of those being reached and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Melanie Archipley , Hannah S. Dalgleish , Eva-Maria Ahrer , Daniel Mortimer

The 2020s will be the most data-rich decade of astronomy in history. As the scale and complexity of our surveys increase, the problem of scheduling becomes more critical. We must develop high-quality scheduling approaches, implement them as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Eric C. Bellm , Eric B. Ford , Aaron Tohuvavohu , Michael W. Coughlin , Brett Morris , Bryan Miller , Jennifer Sobeck , Reed Riddle , Chuanfei Dong , Peter Yoachim

The digital revolution is transforming astronomy from a data-starved to a data-submerged science. Instruments such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and the Square Kilometer Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Melvyn Wright

Most of today's educators are in no shortage of digital and online learning technologies available at their fingertips, ranging from Learning Management Systems such as Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle, online meeting tools, online homework,…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-12-13 Zhongzhou Chen , Chandralekha Singh

The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) grew up with and has been riding the waves of the Information Age, closely monitoring and anticipating the needs of its end-users. By now, all professional astronomers are using the ADS on a daily…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-29 Edwin A. Henneken , Michael J. Kurtz , Alberto Accomazzi

The hit of the COVID-19 pandemic has hugely affected higher education in the world, and as a result, most of the physical classes have been (partially) replaced by online teaching platforms. This transition is challenging even for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Mehrnoosh Askarpour

The number of small satellites has grown dramatically in the past decade from tens of satellites per year in the mid-2010s to a projection of tens of thousands in orbit by the mid-2020s. This presents both problems and opportunities for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-09 Stephen Serjeant , Martin Elvis , Giovanna Tinetti

This is a summary of the `Astronomy Perspective' of the 4th meeting on 'Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy' held at Penn State University in June 2006. We comment on trends in the Astronomy community towards Bayesian methods and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

The history and current status of the cross-disciplinary fields of astrostatistics and astroinformatics are reviewed. Astronomers need a wide range of statistical methods for both data reduction and science analysis. With the proliferation…

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Since 1990, the United Nations in cooperation with the European Space Agency is holding annually a workshop on basic space science for the benefit of the worldwide development of astronomy. These workshops have been held in countries of…

The Virtual Observatory (VO) is realizing global electronic integration of astronomy data. One of the long-term goals of the U.S. VO project, the Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO), is development of services and protocols that respond…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Bruce Berriman , Robert J. Hanisch , T. Joseph W. Lazio

The U.S. Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO; http://www.us-vao.org/) has been in operation since May 2010. Its goal is to enable new science through efficient integration of distributed multi-wavelength data. This paper describes the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Bruce Berriman , Robert J. Hanisch , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Alexander Szalay , Giussepina Fabbiano

Cultural Astronomy sits at the intersection of our study of the universe and the human experience, exploring how we observe the stars, interpret their motions, and incorporate them into our perspectives of the nature of reality. "Astronomy…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-10-08 C. Erba , G. Anderson , T. Cox , G. D. Henson , R. Ignace

We review the iid2022 workshop on statistical methods for X-ray and $\gamma$-ray astronomy and high--energy astrophysics event data in astronomy, held in Guntersville, AL, on Nov. 15-18 2022. New methods for faint source detection, spatial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-07 Eric D. Feigelson , Massimiliano Bonamente