Visualization in Astrophysics: Developing New Methods, Discovering Our Universe, and Educating the Earth
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2021-06-02 v1 Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract
We present a state-of-the-art report on visualization in astrophysics. We survey representative papers from both astrophysics and visualization and provide a taxonomy of existing approaches based on data analysis tasks. The approaches are classified based on five categories: data wrangling, data exploration, feature identification, object reconstruction, as well as education and outreach. Our unique contribution is to combine the diverse viewpoints from both astronomers and visualization experts to identify challenges and opportunities for visualization in astrophysics. The main goal is to provide a reference point to bring modern data analysis and visualization techniques to the rich datasets in astrophysics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2106.00152,
title = {Visualization in Astrophysics: Developing New Methods, Discovering Our Universe, and Educating the Earth},
author = {Fangfei Lan and Michael Young and Lauren Anderson and Anders Ynnerman and Alexander Bock and Michelle A. Borkin and Angus G. Forbes and Juna A. Kollmeier and Bei Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.00152},
year = {2021}
}