The development, deployment, and impact of the virtual observatory, Part II
Publication date: June 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 11, Part B Author(s): R.J. Hanisch
View ArticleVADER: A flexible, robust, open-source code for simulating viscous thin...
Publication date: June 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 11, Part A Author(s): M.R. Krumholz, J.C. Forbes The evolution of thin axisymmetric viscous accretion disks is a classic problem in...
View ArticleASDF: A new data format for astronomy
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): P. Greenfield, M. Droettboom, E. Bray We present the case for developing a successor format for the immensely...
View ArticleAstronomical imagery: Considerations for a contemporary approach with JPEG2000
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): V.V. Kitaeff, A. Cannon, A. Wicenec, D. Taubman The new wide-field radio telescopes, such as: ASKAP, MWA, LOFAR,...
View ArticleReimplementing the Hierarchical Data System using HDF5
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): Tim Jenness The Starlink Hierarchical Data System has been a very successful niche astronomy file format and...
View ArticleHDFITS: Porting the FITS data model to HDF5
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): D.C. Price, B.R. Barsdell, L.J. Greenhill The FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format has been the de...
View ArticleData compression in the petascale astronomy era: A GERLUMPH case study
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): D. Vohl, C.J. Fluke, G. Vernardos As the volume of data grows, astronomers are increasingly faced with choices on...
View ArticleData compression for the first G-APD Cherenkov Telescope
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): M.L. Ahnen, M. Balbo, M. Bergmann, A. Biland, T. Bretz, J. Buß, D. Dorner, S. Einecke, J. Freiwald, C. Hempfling,...
View ArticleA compression scheme for radio data in high performance computing
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): K. Masui, M. Amiri, L. Connor, M. Deng, M. Fandino, C. Höfer, M. Halpern, D. Hanna, A.D. Hincks, G. Hinshaw, J.M....
View ArticleCasacore Table Data System and its use in the MeasurementSet
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): G.N.J. van Diepen The Casacore Table Data System (CTDS) has been developed as part of the CASA (formerly AIPS++)...
View ArticleThe General Single-Dish Data format: A retrospective
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): Tim Jenness, Elizabeth B. Stobie, Ronald J. Maddalena, Robert W. Garwood, Jon H. Fairclough, Richard M. Prestage,...
View ArticleLearning from 25 years of the extensible N-Dimensional Data Format
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): T. Jenness, D.S. Berry, M.J. Currie, P.W. Draper, F. Economou, N. Gray, B. McIlwrath, K. Shortridge, M.B. Taylor,...
View ArticleLearning from FITS: Limitations in use in modern astronomical research
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): B. Thomas, T. Jenness, F. Economou, P. Greenfield, P. Hirst, D.S. Berry, E. Bray, N. Gray, D. Muna, J. Turner, M....
View ArticleAstronomical data formats: What we have and how we got here
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): Jessica D. Mink Despite almost all being acquired as photons, astronomical data from different instruments and at...
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Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): R.G. Mann
View ArticleL-PICOLA: A parallel code for fast dark matter simulation
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): C. Howlett, M. Manera, W.J. Percival Robust measurements based on current large-scale structure surveys require...
View ArticleAMADA—Analysis of multidimensional astronomical datasets
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): R.S. de Souza, B. Ciardi We present AMADA, an interactive web application to analyze multidimensional datasets....
View ArticleThe role of 3-D interactive visualization in blind surveys of Hi in galaxies
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): D. Punzo, J.M. van der Hulst, J.B.T.M. Roerdink, T.A. Oosterloo, M. Ramatsoku, M.A.W. Verheijen Upcoming H i...
View ArticleMontblanc11https://github.com/ska-sa/montblanc.: GPU accelerated radio...
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): S.J. Perkins, P.C. Marais, J.T.L. Zwart, I. Natarajan, C. Tasse, O. Smirnov We present Montblanc, a GPU...
View ArticleNearest neighbor density ratio estimation for large-scale applications in...
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Astronomy and Computing, Volume 12 Author(s): J. Kremer, F. Gieseke, K. Steenstrup Pedersen, C. Igel In astronomical applications of machine learning, the...
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