SPectra Analysis and Retrievable Catalog Lab (SPARCL) at NOIRLab's Astro Data Lab was created to efficiently serve large optical and infrared spectroscopic datasets. It consists of services, tools, example workflows and currently contains spectra for over 7.5 million stars, galaxies and quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. We aim to eventually support the broad range of spectroscopic datasets that will be hosted at NOIRLab and beyond. Major elements of SPARCL include capabilities to discover and query for spectra based on parameters of interest, a fast web service that delivers desired spectra either individually or in bulk as well as documentation and example Jupyter Notebooks to empower users in their research. More information is available on the SPARCL website (https://astrosparcl.datalab.noirlab.edu).
@article{arxiv.2401.05576,
title = {SPARCL: SPectra Analysis and Retrievable Catalog Lab},
author = {Stéphanie Juneau and Alice Jacques and Steve Pothier and Adam S. Bolton and Benjamin A. Weaver and Ragadeepika Pucha and Sean McManus and Robert Nikutta and Knut Olsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.05576},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure, Conference Proceedings for ADASS 2023 (Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XXXIII). Revised figure 1 (text is unchanged)