Astroinformatics

[|arXiv:1301.4826] [ [|pdf], [|ps] , [|other] ] Irregular time series in astronomy and the use of the Lomb-Scargle periodogram [|R. Vio], [|M. Diaz-Trigo] , [|P. Andreani]   Journal-ref: Astronomy and Computing 1, pag 5 (2013)  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[|arXiv:1206.4076] [ [|pdf] ] The role in the Virtual Astronomical Observatory in the era of massive data sets [|G. Bruce Berriman], [|Robert J. Hanisch] , [|T. Joseph W. Lazio]   Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures. SPIE Conference 8448: Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems IV Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) [|arXiv:1206.4079] [ [|pdf] ] The organization and management of the Virtual Astronomical Observatory [|G. Bruce Berriman], [|Robert J. Hanisch], [|T. Joseph W. Lazio] , [|Alexander Szalay] , [|Giussepina Fabbiano]  Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures. SPIE Conference 8449: Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy V Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) [|arXiv:1206.3577] [ [|pdf], [|ps] , [|other] ] An Algorithm for Preferential Selection of Spectroscopic Targets in LEGUE [|Jeffrey L. Carlin], [|Sebastien Lepine] , [|Heidi Jo Newberg] , [|Licai Deng] , [|Timothy C. Beers] , [|Yuqin Chen] , [|Norbert Christlieb] , [|Xiaoting Fu] , [|Shuang Gao] , [|Carl J. Grillmair] , [|Puragra Guhathakurta] , [|Zhanwen Han] , [|Jinliang Hou] , [|Hsu-Tai Lee] , [|Jing Li] , [|Chao Liu] , [|Xiaowei Liu] , [|Kaike Pan] , [|J. A. Sellwood] , [|Hongchi Wang] , [|Fan Yang] , [|Brian Yanny] , [|Yueyang Zhang] , [|Zheng Zheng] , [|Zi Zhu]   Comments: 17 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in RAA  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA) [|arXiv:1206.4035] [ [|pdf], [|ps] , [|other] ] Connecting the time domain community with the Virtual Astronomical Observatory [|Matthew J. Graham], [|S. G. Djorgovski] , [|Ciro Donalek] , [|Andrew J. Drake] , [|Ashish A. Mahabal] , [|Raymond L. Plante] , [|Jeffrey Kantor] , [|John C. Good]   Comments: Submitted to Proceedings of SPIE Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes and Systems IV, Amsterdam, 2012 July 2-6  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) [|arXiv:1206.1568] [ [|pdf], [|other] ] An Efficient Automated Validation Procedure for Exoplanet Transit Candidates [|Timothy D. Morton]   Comments: submitted to ApJ  Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) [|arXiv:1206.0595] [ [|pdf] ] A Novel Semantic Software for Astronomical Concepts [|M. Heydari-Malayeri] (1), [|N. Moreau] (1), [|F. Le Petit] (2) ((1) LERMA, Paris Observatory, (2) LUTH, Paris Observatory)  Comments: 4 pages, submitted to the International Astonomical Union Information Bulletin  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Digital Libraries (cs.DL) [|arXiv:1204.0066] [ [|pdf], [|ps] , [|other] ] Real-Time Analysis of Large Astronomical Images [|K. Kuehn], [|R. Hupe]   Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics. Related software to be submitted to Astrophysics Source Code Library Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) [|arXiv:1202.2577] [ [|pdf] ] Citizen Science: Contributions to Astronomy Research [|Carol Christian], [|Chris Lintott] , [|Arfon Smith] , [|Lucy Fortson] , [|Steven Bamford]   Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) [|arXiv:1202.1643] [ [|pdf], [|other] ] Genetic algorithms in astronomy and astrophysics [|Vinesh Rajpaul]   Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures. Review paper in Proc. SAIP2011 (ISBN: 978-1-86888-688-3), ed. I. Basson and A. E. Botha, available online at [|this http URL]  Journal-ref: Proceedings of SAIP2011, the 56th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics, pp. 519-524  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE) [|arXiv:1201.1336] [[|pdf], [|ps], [|other]] Tiled Image Convention for Storing Compressed Images in FITS Binary Tables [|Richard L. White], [|Perry Greenfield] , [|William Pence] , [|Doug Tody] , [|Rob Seaman]   Comments: Registered FITS Convention: [|this http URL] , v2.2, 4 May 2011, 17 pages  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) [|arXiv:1201.1340] [ [|pdf], [|ps] , [|other] ] A Tiled-Table Convention for Compressing FITS Binary Tables [|William Pence], [|Rob Seaman] , [|Richard L. White]  Comments: Proposed FITS Convention: [|this http URL] , v1.0, 28 October 2010, 6 pages  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Databases (cs.DB) [|arXiv:1201.1345] [ [|pdf], [|ps] , [|other] ] FITS Checksum Proposal [|Rob Seaman], [|William Pence] , [|Arnold Rots]   Comments: Registered FITS Convention: [|this http URL] , 23 May 2002, 11 pages  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Databases (cs.DB) [|arXiv:1201.1829] [ [|pdf] ] FITS Foreign File Encapsulation Convention [|Nelson Zarate], [|Rob Seaman] , [|Doug Tody]   Comments: Registered FITS Convention: [|this http URL] , 10 September 2007, 6 pages  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Databases (cs.DB) [|arXiv:1201.1867] [ [|pdf], [|ps] , [|other] ] Astroinformatics, data mining and the future of astronomical research [|Massimo Brescia], [|Giuseppe Longo]   Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the 2-nd International Conference on Frontiers on diagnostic technologies  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) [|arXiv:1112.6121] [ [|pdf], [|ps] , [|other] ] High performance astrophysics computing [|R. Capuzzo Dolcetta], [|M. Arca Sedda] , [|A. Mastrobuono Battisti] , [|D. Punzo] , [|M. Spera] (Dep. of Physics, "Sapienza'', Universita' di Roma, Roma, Italy)  Comments: 2 pages paper presented at the Conference "Advances in Computational Astrophysics: methods, tools and outcomes", to be published in the ASP Conference Series, 2012, vol. 453, R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, M. Limongi and A. Tornambe' eds  Journal-ref: ASP Conf. Series, 2012, vol. 453  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA) [|arXiv:1112.4886] [ [|pdf], [|ps] , [|other] ] Powellsnakes II: a fast Bayesian approach to discrete object detection in multi-frequency astronomical data sets [|Pedro Carvalho], [|Graça Rocha] , [|M. P. Hobson] , [|A. Lasenby]   Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) [|arXiv:1112.1290] [ [|pdf], [|other] ] A Non-parametric Statistical Approach on the Classification of Photometric Time Series Data [|Noble P. Abraham]   Comments: Accepted for publication by RAA (Pages 9, Figures 2, Tables 7)  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) [|arXiv:1111.3784] [ [|pdf], [|other] ] Automatic Optimized Discovery, Creation and Processing of Astronomical Catalogs [|Hugo Buddelmeijer], [|Danny Boxhoorn] , [|Edwin A. Valentijn]   Comments: Accepted for publication in topical issue of Experimental Astronomy on Astro-WISE information system  Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Databases (cs.DB) [|arXiv:1111.3699] [ [|pdf], [|ps] , [|other] ] Real Time Classification of Transient Events in Synoptic Sky Surveys [|Ashish A. Mahabal], [|C. Donalek] , [|S. G. Djorgovski] , [|A. J. Drake] , [|M. J. Graham] , [|R. Williams] , [|Y. Chen] , [|B. Moghaddam] , [|M. Turmon]   Comments: 3 pages, to appear in Proc. IAU 285, "New Horizons in Transient Astronomy", Oxford, Sept. 2011 Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)