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astro-ph.IM2023

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…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 5k cited

The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

The Astropy Collaboration, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Pey Lian Lim +133

The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical communit…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

Astro2020 Science White Paper: The Next Decade of Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics

A. Siemiginowska, G. Eadie, I. Czekala +49

Over the past century, major advances in astronomy and astrophysics have been largely driven by improvements in instrumentation and data collection. With the amassing of high quali…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 356 cited

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 7.7k cited

The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

The Astropy Collaboration, A. M. Price-Whelan, B. M. Sipőcz +134

The Astropy project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly-needed functionality to the astronomical communit…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 5 cited

The Astropy Problem

Demitri Muna, Michael Alexander, Alice Allen +151

The Astropy Project (http://astropy.org) is, in its own words, "a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Pyth…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 1.8k cited

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)

Steven R. Majewski, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Peter M. Frinchaboy +75

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), one of the programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), has now completed its systematic, homogeneo…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 21 cited

Learning from FITS: Limitations in use in modern astronomical research

Brian Thomas, Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou +35

The Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) standard has been a great boon to astronomy, allowing observatories, scientists and the public to exchange astronomical information easil…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 439 cited

The Data Reduction Pipeline for the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

David L. Nidever, Jon A. Holtzman, Carlos Allende Prieto +17

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, explores the stellar populations of the Milky Way using the Sloan 2.5…

astro-ph.IM2014

A New Framework for a Model-Based Data Science Computational Platform

Demitri Muna, Eric Huff

Astronomy produces extremely large data sets from ground-based telescopes, space missions, and simulation. The volume and complexity of these rich data sets require new approaches…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 14.6k cited

Astropy: A Community Python Package for Astronomy

The Astropy Collaboration, Thomas P. Robitaille, Erik J. Tollerud +42

We present the first public version (v0.2) of the open-source and community-developed Python package, Astropy. This package provides core astronomy-related functionality to the com…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 1k cited

The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff, Carlos Allende Prieto +232

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This da…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 1 cited

Unproceedings of the Fourth .Astronomy Conference (.Astronomy 4), Heidelberg, Germany, July 9-11 2012

Robert J. Simpson, Chris Lintott, Amanda Bauer +9

The goal of the .Astronomy conference series is to bring together astronomers, educators, developers and others interested in using the Internet as a medium for astronomy. Attendan…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.1k cited

The Multi-Object, Fiber-Fed Spectrographs for SDSS and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Stephen Smee, James E. Gunn, Alan Uomoto +61

We present the design and performance of the multi-object fiber spectrographs for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and their upgrade for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Sur…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.5k cited

The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

III Collaboration, Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff +224

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 561 cited

Improved background subtraction for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey images

Michael R. Blanton, Eyal Kazin, Demitri Muna +2

We describe a procedure for background subtracting Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging that improves the resulting detection and photometry of large galaxies on the sky. Within…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 1.5k cited

The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

III collaboration, Hiroaki Aihara, Carlos Allende Prieto +178

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in August 2008, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements…