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most citedCosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

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astro-ph.CO2013★ 4 cited

Snowmass Computing Frontier: Computing for the Cosmic Frontier, Astrophysics, and Cosmology

Andrew Connolly, Salman Habib, Alex Szalay +14

This document presents (off-line) computing requrements and challenges for Cosmic Frontier science, covering the areas of data management, analysis, and simulations. We invite cont…

astro-ph2008★ 74 cited

Eight-Dimensional Mid-Infrared/Optical Bayesian Quasar Selection

Gordon T. Richards, Rajesh P. Deo, Mark Lacy +11

We explore the multidimensional, multiwavelength selection of quasars from mid-IR (MIR) plus optical data, specifically from Spitzer-IRAC and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). W…

cs.DC2008★ 77 cited

Accelerating Large-scale Data Exploration through Data Diffusion

Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Ian Foster +1

Data-intensive applications often require exploratory analysis of large datasets. If analysis is performed on distributed resources, data locality can be crucial to high throughput…

astro-ph2008★ 1.5k cited

Galaxy Zoo : Morphologies derived from visual inspection of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Anze Slosar +9

In order to understand the formation and subsequent evolution of galaxies one must first distinguish between the two main morphological classes of massive systems: spirals and earl…

astro-ph2008★ 75 cited

SPACE: the SPectroscopic All-sky Cosmic Explorer

A. Cimatti, M. Robberto, C. M. Baugh +18

We describe the scientific motivations, the mission concept and the instrumentation of SPACE, a class-M mission proposed for concept study at the first call of the ESA Cosmic-Visio…

astro-ph2004★ 107 cited

Number Counts of GALEX Sources in FUV (1530A) and NUV (2310A) Bands

C. Kevin Xu, Jose Donas, Stephane Arnouts +21

Number Counts of galaxies in two GALEX bands (FUV: 1530A and NUV: 2310A, both in AB magnitudes) are reported. They provide for the first time in the literature homogeneously calibr…