Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XIVOctober 24 - 27, 2004
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Exhibit Floor in Magnolia
Tentative
Monday, October 25th
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| 1 | Title: New Content and Functionality of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) Presenter: Marion Schmitz, IPAC, Caltech/JPL Abstract: New content and functionality of NED will be demonstrated. Highlights include diameter data from major survey catalogs and a new mode for output in VOtable XML. |
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| 4 | Title: NOAO and IRAF Project Demonstrations Presenter: NOAO Data Products Program Abstract: Members of the NOAO Data Products Program will be on hand to discuss recent and near-term developments in: o IRAF/X11IRAF Development -- CL error handling and new user features, new tasks, VO integration and major XImtool enhancements; o The Mosaic Pipeline -- An IRAF-based, science driven, modular, highly configurable, and distributed reduction pipeline system for mosaic detectors; o Gemini/IRAF Software -- Cooperative development of reduction software and core system functionality; o The NOAO Science Archive -- Ever-expanding NOAO Survey Program data access and next-generation archive; o An LSST Observation simulator -- A general-purpose survey observation planning tool. Demonstrations and further information on these and other projects will be available at the demo table. |
| 5 | Title: ACS GTO Science Data Archive Visualization Tools Presenter: Terence Allen Abstract: The ACS GTO Science Data Archive (SDA) offers access to all products generated by the ACS GTO data processing pipeline (APSIS) through a database-driven web interface. It enables science team members to construct ad hoc and deeply structured queries through visually intuitive navigation and search tools. The current capabilities include: color and magnitude constrained object searches, cross-correlated searches with other online catalogs, direct download access to all FITS images, download of complete object cata ogs and search results in a variety of formats (including VOT, HTML, XML, CSV). The web interface comprises a suite of tools that have been developed for the SDA to supplement the core functionality of the archive. We will demonstrate tools that provide such functionality as on-the-fly color image generation, clickable object maps, image cutouts of cataloged objects, object aperture and wcs data overplotting, arbitrary image zooming, scaling and color bias, user-selectable image intensity scaling/stretching, data product pedigree charting and dynamically generated data product inventories. The recently added functionality of allowing a user to fine tune the full color maps which are generated on the fly has proven its scientific worth: a selection of scales and scale stretches has aided in the visual identification of AGNs and other. |
| 6 | Title: Development of VO-enabled Applications in Italy Presenter: Claudio Gheller, CINECA Abstract: We will present the results obtained by several Italian research institutions in order to provide new Virtual Observatory enabled applications and tools. The Italian Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (INAF) coordinates the effort. The academic supercomputing center CINECA and the Universities of Naples and Salerno have largely contributed to the results. -AstroMAF AstroMAF is a software of visualization and analysis of astronomical multi-dimensional data (observational and numerical). AstroMAF can connect to a VO-enabled web service and retrieve data in the VOTable, FITS, binary or ASCII formats. Data can be visualized using various advanced graphical techniques and can be analysed in different ways. Multidimensional visualization is fully supported. -AstroMining The AstroMining software is a package written using MatLab to perform a large number of data mining and knowledge discovery tasks in multiparametric astronomical datasets. AstroMining handles VOTables or ASCII tables. Via interactive interfaces, it is possible to perform a number of operations, from data manipulation to parameters selection etc. The package accounts for large set of visualization and statistical tools. -Grid-Enabled Databases Access The Italian research Grid infrastructure (Grid.it) is built on top of GT-2 which does not provide any mechanism to access databases. To overcome this limitation a database client has been built and installed on the WorkerNode of Grid.it site and connects directly with the Oracle server. Data are extracted from the Oracle database and made available in VOTables stored on the WorkerNode. A user-friendly interface allows to submit queries, submit grid jobs to process data and display results. |
| 7 | Title: Pipeline support tools, ESO Vimos IFU pipeline, Midas Presenter: Carlo Izzo, ESO Abstract: We will demonstrate Gasgano and EsoRex, two tools for executing recipes within the currently installed VLT pipelines as well as for the new CPL-based pipelines. Gasgano is a GUI-based Data File Organiser to help ESO's user community to manage and organise in a systematic way the astronomical data observed and produced by all VLT compliant telescopes. EsoRex is a command line tool to list, configure and execute CPL-based recipes. Recipes for the CPL pipelines run as plugi s (dynamic libraries). Therefore, it is not possible to run them directly from the command line; one has to use a wrapping application. EsoRex is such a wrapper, saving recipe developers the need to write such an application themselves. Furthermore, the ESO-IFU pipeline for VIMOS will be demonstrated. Finally, the 04SEP release of ESO-Midas will be shown. |
| 8 | Title: The NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA): The Demo Presenter: Anastasia Alexov, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, Caltech Abstract: This demonstration shows the user services available at the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA). Companion presentat ons describe the architecture that supports this archive. Currently there are nearly 250,000 data requests a month, taking advantage IRSA's data repository which includes 660 million sources (60 catalogs), 10 million images (22 image sets; 10.4 TB) and over 70,000 spectra (7 spectroscopic data sets). These data are the science products of: The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX), The Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS), The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), The Infrared Telescope in Space (IRTS), The Spitzer First Look Survey (FLS), Spitzer Legacy & Ancillary data, Spitzer Reserved Observations (ROC) and th Spitzer Space Telescope data. IRSA is also seamlessly interoperable with 10 remote archives and services: GOODS, ISO, MAST, VizieR, DSS, NVSS, FIRST, HEASARC, NED and JPL, which help expand the available data set wavelength range from X-ray to radio. The majority of IRSA's image col ections are Simple Image Access (SIA) compliant and are available through the Virtual Observatory (VO) data mining tools. The IRSA demo will include: IRSA's inventory service RADAR, IRSA's data fusion service OASIS and IRSA's general search service for complex data collections Atlas. |
| 9 | Title: ESA VO Services Presenter: Iņaki ORTIZ, ESA / ESAC Abstract: Following ESAs decision to increase its participation in the VO, more emphasis and dedicated manpower have been setup to develop ESA VO services at the European Space Astronomy Centre (previously VILSPA) located near Madrid, Spain. All ESA VO services available from the ESAC Archive Group will be demonstrated, in particular: - ESA-VO Portal - SIAP access to the ISO Data Archive - SIAP access to the XMM-Newton Science Archive - SSA access to the ISO Data Archive - ESA-VO Registry - ESA VOSpec tool Additionally, existing scientific archives located at ESAC will be accessible for demonstration: - The ISO Data Archive (IDA), - The XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA), - The Integral SOC Science Archive (ISDA), - The Planetary Science Archive (PSA) |
| 10 | Title: Extending the Capabilities of CIAO with S-Lang-based Tools Presenter: F. Primini, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Abstract: We demonstrate a number of tools that extend the capabilities of the CIAO x-ray astronomy analysis software package. These tools were developed using S-Lang (http://www.s-lang.org), an interpreted language and multi-platform programmer's library that may be easily embedded into other applications. The S-Lang interpreter's C-like syntax and sophisticated vector and array manipulation capabilities allow rapid development by scientists of programs that meet their individual analysis needs. The tools demonstrated here include simple point source aperture photometry tools launched from DS9, and interactive data visualization and filtering tools. All are available for downloading via the CIAO web pages (http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/slang/). |
| 11 | Title: The National Virtual Observatory Presenter: Robert Hanisch, Space Telescope Science Institute Abstract: We will demonstrate the most recently developed capabilities of the US National Virtual Observatory project. |
| 12 | Title: Starlink Software Developments Presenter: Malcolm Currie (Starlink, RAL, UK) Abstract: We shall demonstrate the latest Starlink software and its applicability to the Virtual Observatory. This includes Java an lysis tools such as FROG for time-series, ORAC-DR pipelines for more ESO instruments, automated astrometric calibrations in GAIA, and distributed pipeline processing. For the first time we shall give some presentations under Mac OS X. |
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