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The Virtual Observatory Is Very Much Real!

Posted on February 24, 2018 by astrocompute

  This is the title of a talk given at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics by my colleague Giuseppina (Pepi) Fabbiano. Pepi has been involved in the VO since its earliest daya, and she currently serves as Chair of the … Continue reading →

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A New Python Pipeline for Reducing NIRSPEC Data Acquired at the Keck Observatory

Posted on June 5, 2017 by astrocompute

The Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) (https://koa.ipac.caltech.edu) has just released a new data reduction pipeline (NSDRP) for data acquired with the Keck Observatory NIRSPEC cross-dispersed infrared echelle spectrograph. The pipeline is intended to reduce high-resolution (0.947 – 2.63 um) object spectra. … Continue reading →

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VO Interfaces at the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA).

Posted on December 8, 2015 by astrocompute

This week, I am reporting on a presentation I heard by James Dempsey of CSIRO at the IVOA meeting in Sydney, November 2015. You can download the presentation at the meeting site here. ASKAP is the Australian SKA Pathfinder, a … Continue reading →

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Petascale Data Management in Solar Physics: Approach of the DKIST Data Center

Posted on November 10, 2015 by astrocompute

While attending the ADASS XXV meeting in Sydney, I heard this excellent presentation by Steve Berukoff 0n data management at the National Solar Obervatory’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, now under construction on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.  The telescope is due for … Continue reading →

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The Front Lines of ADASS 2014 – October 6 2014 Morning Sessions

Posted on October 6, 2014 by astrocompute

Nick Walton spoke about data processing challenges for PLATO, ESA’s next generation planet-hunter. It is an approved ESA M3 mission with a launch date in 2024, with a nominal six year mission. Broadly speaking, it aims to detect earth sized … Continue reading →

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The One-Degree Imager – Portal, Pipeline and Archive (ODI-PPA) User Services

Posted on July 20, 2014 by astrocompute

Last week, I blogged about the ODI archive architecture, based on a talk given by Arvind Gopu at the SPIE Meeting in Montreal, Canada on June 22nd.  This week I will write about the user services layered on top of … Continue reading →

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The One-Degree Imager – Portal, Pipeline and Archive (ODI-PPA)

Posted on July 11, 2014 by astrocompute

This is the title of a fine presentation given by Arvind Gopu at the SPIE Meeting in Montreal, Canada on June 22nd.   The One-Degree Imager (ODI) is installed in the WIYN 3,5m telescope at Kitt Peak (Tucson, AZ). It … Continue reading →

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Ten things we would do differently today: Reflections on a decade of ALMA software development

Posted on July 3, 2014 by astrocompute

This is the title of an outstanding presentation given by Brian Glendenning and his team at the recent SPIE meeting in Montreal, Canada (June 22 -28, 2014).  The ALMA software has been an impressive effort over 12+ years,  involving 100 … Continue reading →

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Metadata and Data Management for the Keck Observatory Archive

Posted on June 23, 2014 by astrocompute

This is the title of a poster (spie14_koa_poster) by Hien Tran et al. (the et al. are the Keck Archive team), presented at the SPIE  Software and Cyberinfrastructure conference, part of “Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation” in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Data … Continue reading →

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Creating A Galactic Plane Atlas With Amazon Web Services

Posted on February 13, 2014 by astrocompute

Creating A Galactic Plane Atlas With Amazon Web Services This post is based on a paper by G. Bruce Berriman, Ewa Deelman, John Good, Gideon Juve, Jamie Kinney, Ann Merrihew, and Mats Rynge. It was submitted to an IEEE Special … Continue reading →

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