Computing in Astronomy: Applications and Examples

Author

Bogert, F. Alexander ; Smith, Nadia ; Holdener, John ; De Jong, E.M. ; Hart, Andrew F. ; Cinquini, Luca ; Khudikyan, Shakeh E. ; Thompson, David R. ; Mattmann, Chris A. ; Wagstaff, Kiri ; Lazio, Joseph ; Jones, Douglas L. ; Allen, Alicia ; Shamir, Lior ;

Volume

47

Issue

9

fYear

2014

fDate

Sept. 2014

Firstpage

62

Lastpage

69

Abstract

Computing in astronomy has a wide variety of applications,. We grouped a series of sidebars to provide pointers to ongoing work as well to give illustrative examples on astronomical visualization, event classification, Big Data, and software libraries.

Keywords

Big Data; astronomy computing; data visualisation; pattern classification; software libraries; Big Data; astronomical visualization; astronomy computing; event classification; software libraries; Astronomy; Astrophysics; Computer applications; Data processing; Data visualization; Motion pictures; NASA; Scientific computing; GPU; Internet applications; V-FASTR; astronomy; astrophysics; big data; computer applications; computer systems organization; data archiving; data movement; data processing; data triage; emerging technologies; fast-transients; graphical environments; libraries/information repositories/publishing; machine; machine learning; physical sciences and engineering; programming environments; radio-astronomy; software engineering; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2014.243

Filename

6898785