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Data Lab-A community science platform

Nikutta, R.; Fitzpatrick, M.; Scott, A. +1 more

Data Lab is an open-access science platform developed and operated by the Community and Science Data Center (CSDC) at NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab). It serves public photometric survey datasets, provides interactive and programmatic data access, and SQL/ADQL query capabilities via TAP. Users also receive g…

Optical follow-up of gravitational wave triggers with DECam during the first two LIGO/VIRGO observing runs

Berger, E.; Bechtol, K.; Smith, M. +82 more

Gravitational wave (GW) events detectable by LIGO and Virgo have several possible progenitors, including black hole mergers, neutron star mergers, black hole-neutron star mergers, supernovae, and cosmic string cusps. A subset of GW events is expected to produce electromagnetic (EM) emission that, once detected, will provide complementary informati…

Exo-MerCat: A merged exoplanet catalog with Virtual Observatory connection

Claudi, R.; Bignamini, A.; Molinaro, M. +1 more

The heterogeneity of papers dealing with the discovery and characterization of exoplanets makes every attempt to maintain a uniform exoplanet catalog almost impossible. Four sources currently available online (NASA Exoplanet Archive, Exoplanet Orbit Database, Exoplanet Encyclopaedia, and Open Exoplanet Catalogue) are commonly used by the community…

E0102-VR: Exploring the scientific potential of Virtual Reality for observational astrophysics

Baracaglia, E.; Vogt, F. P. A.

Virtual Reality (VR) technology has been subject to a rapid democratization in recent years, driven in large by the entertainment industry, and epitomized by the emergence of consumer-grade, plug-and-play, room-scale VR devices. To explore the scientific potential of this technology for the field of observational astrophysics, we have created an e…

IVOA HiPS implementation in the framework of WorldWide Telescope

Li, S.; Li, C.; Xu, Y. +9 more

The WorldWide Telescope(WWT) is a scientific visualization platform which can browse deep space images, star catalogs, and planetary remote sensing data from different observation facilities in a three-dimensional virtual scene. First launched and then open-sourced by Microsoft Research, the WWT is now managed by the American Astronomical Society …