Publications (52)
Theory in a Virtual Observatory
Peter Teuben, Dave DeYoung, Piet Hut +5
During the last couple of years, observers have started to make plans for a Virtual Observatory, as a federation of existing data bases, connected through levels of software that e…
The Spitzer c2d Survey of Large, Nearby, Interstellar Clouds: VII. Ophiuchus Observed with MIPS
Deborah L. Padgett, Luisa M. Rebull, Karl R. Stapelfeldt +21
We present maps of 14.4 deg^2 of the Ophiuchus dark clouds observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS). These high quality maps depict b…
Astrophysics Source Code Library: Incite to Cite!
Kimberly DuPrie, Alice Allen, Bruce Berriman +8
The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL, http://ascl.net/) is an online registry of over 700 source codes that are of interest to astrophysicists, with more being added regularl…
The EDGE-CALIFA survey: Molecular Gas and Star Formation Activity Across the Green Valley
Vicente Villanueva, Alberto D. Bolatto, Stuart N. Vogel +11
We present a CO(=2-1) survey of 60 local galaxies using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Compact Array as part of the Extragalactic Database for Galax…
Software metadata: How much is enough?
Alice Allen, Peter Teuben, G. Bruce Berriman +3
Broad efforts are underway to capture metadata about research software and retain it across services; notable in this regard is the CodeMeta project. What metadata are important to…
The Spitzer c2d Survey of Large, Nearby, Interstellar Clouds. IV. Lupus Observed with MIPS
Nicholas L. Chapman, Shih-Ping Lai, Lee G. Mundy +22
We present maps of 7.78 square degrees of the Lupus molecular cloud complex at 24, 70, and m. They were made with the Spitzer Space Telescope's Multiband Imaging Photomete…
Making organizational software easier to find in ASCL and ADS
Alice Allen, Siddha Mavuram, Robert J. Nemiroff +2
Software is the most used instrument in astronomy, and organizations such as NASA and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Physics (HITS) fund, develop, and release research so…
MIS: a MIRIAD Interferometry Singledish toolkit
Marc W. Pound, Peter Teuben
Building on the "drPACS" contribution at ADASS XX of a simple Unix pipeline infrastructure, we implemented a pipeline toolkit using the package MIRIAD to combine Interferometric an…
The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: Interferometric Observations of 126 Galaxies with CARMA
Alberto D. Bolatto, Tony Wong, Dyas Utomo +21
We present interferometric CO observations made with the Combined Array for Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) of galaxies from the Extragalactic Database for Galaxy Evolution surve…
The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: Evidence for Pervasive Extraplanar Diffuse Ionized Gas in Nearby Edge-On Galaxies
Rebecca C. Levy, Alberto D. Bolatto, Sebastián F. Sánchez +9
We investigate the prevalence, properties, and kinematics of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (eDIG) in a sample of 25 edge-on galaxies selected from the CALIFA survey. We measure i…
Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy: Experiences and Vision of the Astrophysics Source Code Library
Lior Shamir, Bruce Berriman, Peter Teuben +2
We are members of the Astrophysics Source Code Library's Advisory Committee and its editor-in-chief. The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL, ascl.net) is a successful initiativ…
Data Combination: Interferometry and Single-dish Imaging in Radio Astronomy
Adele Plunkett, Alvaro Hacar, Lydia Moser-Fischer +11
Modern interferometers routinely provide radio-astronomical images down to subarcsecond resolution. However, interferometers filter out spatial scales larger than those sampled by…
The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: An Extragalactic Database for Galaxy Evolution Studies
Tony Wong, Yixian Cao, Yufeng Luo +22
The EDGE-CALIFA survey provides spatially resolved optical integral field unit (IFU) and CO spectroscopy for 125 galaxies selected from the CALIFA Data Release 3 sample. The Extrag…
The Spitzer c2d Survey of Nearby Dense Cores: II: Discovery of a Low Luminosity Object in the "Evolved Starless Core" L1521F
Tyler L. Bourke, Philip C. Myers, Neal J. Evans +12
We present Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the "evolved starless core" L1521F which reveal the presence of a very low luminosity object (L < 0.07 Lsun). The object, L1521F-…
The Future of Gamma-Ray Experiments in the MeV-EeV Range
Kristi Engel, Jordan Goodman, Petra Huentemeyer +95
Gamma-rays, the most energetic photons, carry information from the far reaches of extragalactic space with minimal interaction or loss of information. They bring messages about par…
Velocity Fields of Disk Galaxies
Peter Teuben
Two dimensional velocity fields have been an important tool for nearly 30 years and are instrumental in understanding galactic mass distributions and deviations from an ideal galac…
Connecting the Scales: Large Area High-resolution Ammonia Mapping of NGC 1333
Arnab Dhabal, Lee G. Mundy, Che-yu Chen +2
We use NH3 inversion transitions to trace the dense gas in the NGC 1333 region of the Perseus molecular cloud. NH3(1,1) and NH3(2,2) maps covering an area of 102 square arcminutes…
The Astrophysics Source Code Library: What's new, what's coming
Alice Allen, G. Bruce Berriman, Kimberly DuPrie +10
The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL, ascl.net), established in 1999, is a citable online registry of source codes used in research that are available for download; the ASCL'…
Implementing Ideas for Improving Software Citation and Credit
Peter Teuben, Alice Allen, G. Bruce Berriman +6
Improving software citation and credit continues to be a topic of interest across and within many disciplines, with numerous efforts underway. In this Birds of a Feather (BoF) sess…
The Spitzer c2d survey of Large, Nearby, Interstellar Clouds. V. Chamaeleon II Observed with IRAC
Alicia Porras, Jes K. Jørgensen, Lori E. Allen +19
We present IRAC (3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 micron) observations of the Chamaeleon II molecular cloud. The observed area covers about 1 square degree defined by . Analysis of t…
The Dense Gas Mass Fraction and the Relationship to Star Formation in M51
Mark Heyer, Benjamin Gregg, Daniela Calzetti +15
Observations of 12CO J=1-0 and HCN J=1-0 emission from NGC 5194 (M51) made with the 50~meter Large Millimeter Telescope and the SEQUOIA focal plane array are presented. Using the H…
CARMA Large Area Star Formation Survey: Dense Gas in the Young L1451 Region of Perseus
Shaye Storm, Lee G. Mundy, Katherine I. Lee +18
We present a 3 mm spectral line and continuum survey of L1451 in the Perseus Molecular Cloud. These observations are from the CARMA Large Area Star Formation Survey (CLASSy), which…
The Astrophysics Source Code Library: Where do we go from here?
Alice Allen, Bruce Berriman, Kimberly DuPrie +8
The Astrophysics Source Code Library, started in 1999, has in the past three years grown from a repository for 40 codes to a registry of over 700 codes that are now indexed by ADS.…
Total Power Map to Visibilities (TP2VIS): Joint Deconvolution of ALMA 12m, 7m, and Total Power Array Data
Jin Koda, Peter Teuben, Tsuyoshi Sawada +2
We present a new package for joint deconvolution of ALMA 12m, 7m, and Total Power (TP) data, dubbed ``Total Power Map to Visibilities (TP2VIS)". It converts a TP (single-dish) map…
Cuspy dark matter density profiles in massive dwarf galaxies
Lauren H. Cooke, Rebecca C. Levy, Alberto D. Bolatto +8
Rotation curves of galaxies probe their total mass distributions, including dark matter. Dwarf galaxies are excellent systems to investigate the dark matter density distribution, a…
Practices in source code sharing in astrophysics
Lior Shamir, John F. Wallin, Alice Allen +6
While software and algorithms have become increasingly important in astronomy, the majority of authors who publish computational astronomy research do not share the source code the…
The Morpho-Kinematic Architecture of Super Star Clusters in the Center of NGC253
Rebecca C. Levy, Alberto D. Bolatto, Adam K. Leroy +9
The center of the nearby galaxy NGC\,253 hosts a population of more than a dozen super star clusters (SSCs) which are still in the process of forming. The majority of the star form…
The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: Molecular and Ionized Gas Kinematics in Nearby Galaxies
Rebecca C. Levy, Alberto D. Bolatto, Peter Teuben +15
We present a comparative study of molecular and ionized gas kinematics in nearby galaxies. These results are based on observations from the EDGE survey, which measured spatially re…
The EDGE-CALIFA survey: The role of spiral arms and bars in driving central molecular gas concentrations
Si-Yue Yu, Veselina Kalinova, Dario Colombo +9
Shocks and torques produced by non-axisymmetric structures such as spiral arms and bars may transport gas to galaxy central regions. We test this hypothesis by studying the depende…
Bring out your codes! Bring out your codes! (Increasing Software Visibility and Re-use)
Alice Allen, Bruce Berriman, Robert Brunner +8
Progress is being made in code discoverability and preservation, but as discussed at ADASS XXI, many codes still remain hidden from public view. With the Astrophysics Source Code L…
Morphology and Kinematics of Filaments in the Serpens and Perseus Molecular Clouds
Arnab Dhabal, Lee G. Mundy, Maxime J. Rizzo +2
We present H13CO+ (J=1-0) and HNC (J=1-0) maps of regions in Serpens South, Serpens Main and NGC 1333 containing filaments. We also observe the Serpens regions using H13CN (J=1-0).…
The simultaneous spectrum of Sgr A* from 20cm to 1mm and the nature of the mm-excess
Heino Falcke, W. M. Goss, Hiroshi Matsuo +3
We report results from a multiwavelength campaign to measure the simultaneous spectrum of the super-massive black hole candidate Sgr A* in the Galactic Center from cm to mm-wavelen…
Nine Best Practices for Research Software Registries and Repositories: A Concise Guide
Task Force on Best Practices for Software Registries, :, Alain Monteil +30
Scientific software registries and repositories serve various roles in their respective disciplines. These resources improve software discoverability and research transparency, pro…
Immersive 4D Interactive Visualization of Large-Scale Simulations
Peter Teuben, Piet Hut, Stuart Levy +5
In dense clusters a bewildering variety of interactions between stars can be observed, ranging from simple encounters to collisions and other mass-transfer encounters. With faster…
Searching for Non-axisymmetries in NGC 6503: A Weak End-on Bar
Rachel Kuzio de Naray, Cameron A. Arsenault, Kristine Spekkens +4
The isolation, simple apparent structure, and low luminosity of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 6503 make it an ideal candidate for an in-depth kinematic and photometric study. We int…
Escaping from the herd of white elephants
Jan Noordam, Yan Grange, Peter Teuben
About 60 ADASS participants discussed the evolving roles of users, developers, and managers of astronomical data reduction software. Special emphasis was placed on the role of the…
Ideas for Advancing Code Sharing (A Different Kind of Hack Day)
Peter Teuben, Alice Allen, Bruce Berriman +8
How do we as a community encourage the reuse of software for telescope operations, data processing, and calibration? How can we support making codes used in research available for…
Practices in Code Discoverability
Peter Teuben, Alice Allen, Robert J. Nemiroff +1
Much of scientific progress now hinges on the reliability, falsifiability and reproducibility of computer source codes. Astrophysics in particular is a discipline that today leads…
Interoperability of Users, Developers, and Managers
Jan Noordam, Yan Grange, Peter Teuben
This BoF is a continuation of the ADASS FADS tradition of yore, which aims tostimulate discussion (or at least awareness) about the non-technical aspects of our trade.This year, as…
Simulation Software: Then, Now and Virtual Observatory
Peter Teuben
Like hardware, evolution of software has had a major impact on the field of particle simulations. This paper illustrates how simulation software has evolved, and where it can go. I…
Availability of Hyperlinked Resources in Astrophysics Papers
P. Wesley Ryan, Alice Allen, Peter Teuben
Astrophysics papers often rely on software which may or may not be available, and URLs are often used as proxy citations for software and data. We extracted all URLs from two journ…
Astro2020 APC White Paper: Elevating the Role of Software as a Product of the Research Enterprise
Arfon M. Smith, Dara Norman, Kelle Cruz +42
Software is a critical part of modern research, and yet there are insufficient mechanisms in the scholarly ecosystem to acknowledge, cite, and measure the impact of research softwa…
Advancing the Landscape of Multimessenger Science in the Next Decade
Kristi Engel, Tiffany Lewis, Marco Stein Muzio +91
The last decade has brought about a profound transformation in multimessenger science. Ten years ago, facilities had been built or were under construction that would eventually dis…
The Future of Astronomical Data Infrastructure: Meeting Report
Michael R. Blanton, Janet D. Evans, Dara Norman +69
The astronomical community is grappling with the increasing volume and complexity of data produced by modern telescopes, due to difficulties in reducing, accessing, analyzing, and…
Improving Software Citation and Credit
Alice Allen, G. Bruce Berriman, Kimberly DuPrie +8
The past year has seen movement on several fronts for improving software citation, including the Center for Open Science's Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, the…
Galaxy Cluster Bulk Flows and Collision Velocities in QUMOND
Harley Katz, Stacy McGaugh, Peter Teuben +1
We examine the formation of clusters of galaxies in numerical simulations of a QUMOND cosmogony with massive sterile neutrinos. Clusters formed in these exploratory simulations dev…
Athena: A New Code for Astrophysical MHD
James M. Stone, Thomas A. Gardiner, Peter Teuben +2
A new code for astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is described. The code has been designed to be easily extensible for use with static and adaptive mesh refinement. It combin…
The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: Using Optical Extinction to Probe the Spatially-Resolved Distribution of Gas in Nearby Galaxies
Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Dyas Utomo, Alberto D. Bolatto +11
We present an empirical relation between the cold gas surface density () and the optical extinction () in a sample of 103 galaxies from the Extragalactic D…
Knowledge Discovery Framework for the Virtual Observatory
Brian Thomas, Edward Shaya, Zenping Huang +1
We describe a framework that allows a scientist-user to easily query for information across all Virtual Observatory (VO) repositories and pull it back for analysis. This framework…
Astrophysics Source Code Library: Here we grow again!
Alice Allen, G. Bruce Berriman, Kimberly DuPrie +9
The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free online registry of research codes; it is indexed by ADS and Web of Science and has over 1300 code entries. Its entries are inc…
CARMA Large Area Star Formation Survey: Structure and Kinematics of Dense Gas in Serpens Main
Katherine I. Lee, Manuel Fernandez-Lopez, Shaye Storm +21
We present observations of N2H+(1-0), HCO+(1-0), and HCN(1-0) toward the Serpens Main molecular cloud from the CARMA Large Area Star Formation Survey (CLASSy). We mapped 150 square…
Practices in Code Discoverability: Astrophysics Source Code Library
Alice Allen, Peter Teuben, Robert J. Nemiroff +1
Here we describe the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL), which takes an active approach to sharing astrophysical source code. ASCL's editor seeks out both new and old peer-rev…