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Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature
Tracy X. Chen, Marion Schmitz, Joseph M. Mazzarella +42
We present an overview of best practices for publishing data in astronomy and astrophysics journals. These recommendations are intended as a reference for authors to help prepare a…
Redshift-Independent Distances in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database: Methodology, Content and Use of NED-D
Ian Steer, Barry F. Madore, Joseph M. Mazzarella +13
Estimates of galaxy distances based on indicators that are independent of cosmological redshift are fundamental to astrophysics. Researchers use them to establish the extragalactic…
Iris: an Extensible Application for Building and Analyzing Spectral Energy Distributions
Omar Laurino, Jamie Budynkiewicz, Raffaele D'Abrusco +11
Iris is an extensible application that provides astronomers with a user-friendly interface capable of ingesting broad-band data from many different sources in order to build, explo…
Managing Distributed Software Development in the Virtual Astronomical Observatory
Janet D. Evans, Raymond L. Plante, Nina Bonaventura +9
The U.S. Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) is a product-driven organization that provides new scientific research capabilities to the astronomical community. Software developm…
Iris: The VAO SED Application
Stephen Doe, Nina Bonaventura, Ivo Busko +8
We present Iris, the VAO (Virtual Astronomical Observatory) application for analyzing SEDs (spectral energy distributions). Iris is the result of one of the major science initiativ…
The Curious Case of NGC6908
B. F. Madore, A. Gil de Paz, O. Pevunova +1
The object NGC6908 was once thought to be simply a surface-brightness enhancement in the eastern spiral arm of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC6907. Based on an examination of near-inf…