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Use of Docker for deployment and testing of astronomy software [PDF]
Astronomy and Computing, 2017 29 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Computing, ref ...
Morris, D. +3 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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Analysing Astronomy Algorithms for GPUs and Beyond [PDF]
, 2010 Astronomy depends on ever increasing computing power. Processor clock-rates have plateaued, and increased performance is now appearing in the form of additional processor cores on a single chip. This poses significant challenges to the astronomy software
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The Universe on a Desktop: Observational Astronomy Simulations in the Instructional Laboratory [PDF]
, 2000 Though the value of hands-on learning has long been recognised by educators, it is difficult to design laboratories in astronomy classes that present realistic astrophysical techniques to undergraduate students.
Marschall, Laurence A.
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Using Java for distributed computing in the Gaia satellite data processing [PDF]
, 2011 In recent years Java has matured to a stable easy-to-use language with the flexibility of an interpreter (for reflection etc.) but the performance and type checking of a compiled language.
Hernandez, Jose +5 more
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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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Gamma Ray Bursts in the Era of Rapid Followup [PDF]
, 2010 We present a status report on the study of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) in the era of rapid follow-up using the world's largest robotic optical telescopes - the 2-m Liverpool and Faulkes telescopes.
Guidorzi, C. +2 more
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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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An overview of the planned CCAT software system [PDF]
, 2014 CCAT will be a 25m diameter sub-millimeter telescope capable of operating in the 0.2 to 2.1mm wavelength range. It will be located at an altitude of 5600m on Cerro Chajnantor in northern Chile near the ALMA site.
Brazier, Adam +9 more
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Impact of Rubin Observatory Cadence Choices on Supernovae Photometric Classification
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2023 The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will discover an unprecedented number of supernovae (SNe), making spectroscopic classification for all the events infeasible.
Catarina S. Alves +5 more
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