Category Archives: Astronomy

High Resolution Simulations of A Key Type-IA Supernova Phase

Posted on March 31, 2014 by astrocompute

Another interesting article that I found on the International Science Grid This Week (isgtw) is “Astrophysics team simulates key supernova phase at unprecedented resolution,” in which a research team simulated a turbulent flame is a Type IA supernova outburst at … Continue reading →

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Cosmology, Computers and the VisIVO package.

Posted on March 23, 2014 by astrocompute

We all know how massively parallel programming is assuming ever greater importance in astronomy. This week, I  describe the Visual Interface for the Virtual Observatory (VisIVO) package and describe how it was used to visualize the results of a cosmological … Continue reading →

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Citizen Science and the Modern Web – Talk by Amit Kapadia.

Posted on March 17, 2014 by astrocompute

Amit Kapadia gave this excellent talk at CERN on Citizen Science and The Modern Web.  From Amit’s abstract: “Beginning as a research project to help scientists communicate, the Web has transformed into a ubiquitous medium. As the sciences continue to … Continue reading →

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Resources for Licensing Your Code

Posted on March 5, 2014 by astrocompute

Last week, I reviewed a very useful paper “A Quick Guide To Software Licensing for the Scientist Programmer.” To continue the licensing theme, I am reposting material from the Astronomy Source Code Library blog, which provides some useful resources for those wishing … Continue reading →

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A Quick Guide To Software Licensing for the Scientist Programmer.

Posted on February 25, 2014 by astrocompute

I have already written about software licensing a few weeks ago. This week, I want to write about about a paper by Morin, Urban and Sliz, who wrote a primer on software licensing, with the goal of helping scientists engage … 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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Bringing the VO to Astronomers: Command Line Access To VO Services

Posted on February 7, 2014 by astrocompute

One of the goals of the Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) is to bring the Virtual Observatory to astronomers; that is, provide access to worldwide data sets through tools and environments that astronomers use everyday. A poster paper, reproduced below, presented … Continue reading →

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Accessing Multi-Dimensional Images and Data Cubes In the Virtual Observatory

Posted on January 31, 2014 by astrocompute

New instruments and missions are routinely producing multi-dimensional datasets, such as Doppler velocity cubes and time-resolved movies. Observatories such as ALMA and new integral field spectrographs on ground-based telescopes are generating data cubes , and future missions such as LSST … Continue reading →

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Astrophysics Code Sharing II: The Sequel at AAS 223

Posted on January 24, 2014 by astrocompute

This blogpost was prepared by Alice Allen (Editor, Astronomy Source Code Library) and posted on the ASCL blog. I wish to thank Alice for permission to reproduce her post here. On Tuesday, January 7, the AAS Working Group on Astronomical … Continue reading →

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Licensing Your Code: GPL, BSD and Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

Posted on January 17, 2014 by astrocompute

I have for some time considered changing to a more permissive license (with Caltech’s approval) for the Montage image mosaic engine, as the the current license forbids modification and redistribution of the code. My first attempt at navigating the many … Continue reading →

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