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We present lenscat, a public and community-contributed catalog of strong gravitational lenses found by electromagnetic surveys. The main objective of lenscat is to compile a simple, easy-to-access catalog that can be used in a variety of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-25 L. Vujeva , R. K. L. Lo , J. M. Ezquiaga , J. C. L. Chan

As a result of applying the original optical variability search method on publicly available data, we have found eight new cataclysmic variables and two possible Optically Violent Variable quasars among the previously unidentified X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. V. Denisenko , K. V. Sokolovsky

AstronomicAL is a human-in-the-loop interactive labelling and training dashboard that allows users to create reliable datasets and robust classifiers using active learning. This technique prioritises data that offer high information gain,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Grant Stevens , Sotiria Fotopoulou , Malcolm N. Bremer , Oliver Ray

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

Scientists across all disciplines increasingly rely on machine learning algorithms to analyse and sort datasets of ever increasing volume and complexity. Although trends and outliers are easily extracted, careful and close inspection will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-16 T. H. Jarrett , A. Comrie , L. Marchetti , A. Sivitilli , S. Macfarlane , F. Vitello , U. Becciani , A. R. Taylor , J. M. van der Hulst , P. Serra , N. Katz , M. Cluver

Filtergraph is a web application being developed by the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics (VIDA) to flexibly handle a large variety of astronomy datasets. While current datasets at Vanderbilt are being used to search for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-21 Dan Burger , Keivan G. Stassun , Joshua Pepper , Robert J. Siverd , Martin A. Paegert , Nathan M. De Lee

Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri

In the current data-driven science era, it is needed that data analysis techniques has to quickly evolve to face with data whose dimensions has increased up to the Petabyte scale. In particular, being modern astrophysics based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Giuseppe Riccio , Massimo Brescia , Stefano Cavuoti , Amata Mercurio , Anna Maria Di Giorgio , Sergio Molinari

In this paper we show how advanced visualization tools can help the researcher in investigating and extracting information from data. The focus is on VisIVO, a novel open source graphics application, which blends high performance…

The catalogue lists coordinates, apparent magnitudes, orbital parameters, and stellar parameters of the components and other characteristc properties of 472 cataclysmic binaries, 71 low-mass X-ray binaries and 113 related objects with known…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Ritter , U. Kolb

Nowadays medium-large size astronomical projects have to face the management of a large amount of information and data. Dedicated data centres manage the collection of raw and processed data and consequently make them accessible, typically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luciano Nicastro , Giorgio Calderone

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

Long lived software projects encompass a large number of artifacts, which undergo many revisions throughout their history. Empirical software engineering researchers studying software evolution gather and collect datasets with millions of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Souhaila Serbout , Diana Carolina Muñoz Hurtado , Hassan Atwi , Edoardo Riggio , Cesare Pautasso

Virtual Observatory (VO) is a data-intensively online astronomical research and education environment, which takes advantages of advanced information technologies to achieve seamless and global access to astronomical information. AstroCloud…

Filtergraph is a web application being developed and maintained by the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics (VIDA) to flexibly and rapidly visualize a large variety of astronomy datasets of various formats and sizes. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-28 Dan Burger , Keivan G. Stassun , Joshua Pepper , Robert J. Siverd , Martin Paegert , Nathan M. De Lee , William H. Robinson

The National Academy of Science Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, in its new Decadal survey entitled Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium, recommends, as a first priority, the establishment of a National Virtual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 NVO Interim Steering Committee

The Hubble Catalog of Variables (HCV) is a 3 year ESA funded project that aims to develop a set of algorithms to identify variables among the sources included in the Hubble Source Catalog (HSC) and produce the HCV. We will process all HSC…

The use of high-quality simulated sky catalogs is essential for the success of cosmological surveys. The catalogs have diverse applications, such as investigating signatures of fundamental physics in cosmological observables, understanding…

Independent of established data centers, and partly for my own research, since 1989 I have been collecting the tabular data from over 2600 articles concerned with radio sources and extragalactic objects in general. Optical character…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Heinz Andernach

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…