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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2023 The eighteenth data release (DR18) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is the first one for SDSS-V, the fifth generation of the survey. SDSS-V comprises three primary scientific programs or “Mappers”: the Milky Way Mapper (MWM), the Black Hole Mapper (
Andrés Almeida +154 more
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Korg: A Modern 1D LTE Spectral Synthesis Package
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 We present Korg , a new package for 1D LTE spectral synthesis of FGK stars, which computes theoretical spectra from the near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared, and implements both plane-parallel and spherical radiative transfer.
Adam J. Wheeler +3 more
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Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy [PDF]
, 2023 This open access book is a biography of Joseph L. Pawsey. It examines not only his life but the birth and growth of the field of radio astronomy and the state of science itself in twentieth century Australia.
Ekers, Ronald D. +2 more
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Software and sociology in UK astronomy [PDF]
Astronomy and Geophysics, 2002 I discuss the remit of Starlink's software strategy groups and a particular item on the agenda of a meeting of the image processing software strategy group held on 26th January 2001: `Why don't people use Starlink software?'. The answer to this question was speculated to be primarily a sociological effect: those people supervising UK astronomy Ph.D ...
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SciCodes: Astronomy Research Software and Beyond
CoRR, 2021 The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL ascl.net), started in 1999, is a free open registry of software used in refereed astronomy research. Over the past few years, it has spearheaded an effort to form a consortium of scientific software registries and repositories.
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Open skies: the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and its impact on US radio astronomy [PDF]
, 2020 This open access book on the history of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory covers the scientific discoveries and technical innovations of late 20th century radio astronomy with particular attention to the people and institutions involved.
Kellermann, Kenneth I. +5 more
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Upgraded Thoth: Software for Data Visualization and Statistics
Analytics, 2023 Thoth is a free desktop/laptop software application with a friendly graphical user interface that facilitates routine data-visualization and statistical-calculation tasks for astronomy and astrophysical research (and other fields where numbers are ...
Russ R. Laher +16 more
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Software Use in Astronomy: an Informal Survey
CoRR, 2015 Available on Authorea: https://www.authorea.com/users/10533/articles/18046; Interactive visualization: http://eteq.github.io/software_survey_analysis/software_tools_heirarchy_d3vis ...
Ivelina Momcheva, Erik J. Tollerud
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Looking before Leaping: Creating a Software Registry
Journal of Open Research Software, 2015 What lessons can be learned from examining numerous efforts to create a repository or directory of scientist-written software for a discipline? Astronomy has seen a number of efforts to build such a resource, one of which is the Astrophysics Source Code ...
Alice Allen, Judy Schmidt
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Data Science Journal, 2015 The fields of Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics are vital for dealing with the big data issues now faced by astronomy. Like other disciplines in the big data era, astronomy has many V characteristics.
Yanxia Zhang, Yongheng Zhao
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