Category Archives: user communities

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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Community Building Through Software Design

Posted on March 24, 2017 by astrocompute

This the title of a very interesting talk (which I wish I had given myself!) by Jed Brown of CU Boulder at the 2017 NSF SI2 meeting. Jed is involved in writing code for the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific … Continue reading →

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From The Front Lines of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016

Posted on July 15, 2016 by astrocompute

I attended the SPIE meeting on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation in Edinburgh, Scotland from June 26 through July 1, and I am sharing my views on the conference presentations. Approximately 2,000 astronomers, software engineers and instrumentation specialists crowded the Edinburgh … 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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Why Sustain Scientific Software?

Posted on October 16, 2015 by astrocompute

This is the title of the keynote address given by Matt Turk (University of Illinois) at the 3rd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3), held in Boulder, CO, on September 28-29, 2015. This annual workshop aims to … Continue reading →

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“Software Use in Astronomy: An Informal Survey” by Momcheva and Tollerud

Posted on July 27, 2015 by astrocompute

This the title of a paper by Ivelina Momcheva and Erik Tollerud that was recently posted on astro-ph at http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989.  Between December 2014 and February 2015, they carried out an informal survey about software use in astronomy,  marketed mainly through social … Continue reading →

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Toward a Framework for Evaluating Software Success

Posted on July 1, 2015 by astrocompute

Many of us in the astronomical software business have been debating the best way to evaluate the quality of software and its success within its user community. Here is one proposal submitted by a group of us to the Computational Science … Continue reading →

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The Palomar Transient Factory: High Quality Realtime Data Processing in a Cost-Constrained Environment

Posted on May 5, 2015 by astrocompute

This is the title of a paper by Surace et al. (2015) currently available on astro-ph and presented as a paper at ADASS XXIV in October 2014. The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is an example of a cost-constrained project that is … Continue reading →

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Get Credit For Your Code: The Growth and Impact of the Astrophysics Source Code Library (Annual Report 2014)

Posted on March 28, 2015 by astrocompute

The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) recently published its 2014 report, and you can find it on-line at http://ascl.net/wordpress/?page_id=1337, along with reports from the previous two years. The 2014 report highlights the growth and impact of the ASCL on the … Continue reading →

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Why developing research software is like a startup

Posted on March 20, 2015 by astrocompute

This is the title of a keynote presentation by Neil Chue Hong (Director of the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute) at the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2015 in Taipei, Taiwan (March 15-20, 2015). Neil emphasizes the crucial point that … Continue reading →

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