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Grist: Grid-based Data Mining for Astronomy
Joseph C. Jacob, Roy Williams, Jogesh Babu +8
The Grist project (http://grist.caltech.edu/) is developing a grid-technology based system as a research environment for astronomy with massive and complex datasets. This knowledge…
XMM Cluster Survey: X-ray source identification using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Kate R. Land, Robert C. Nichol, Michael Davidson +8
[ABRIDGED] The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) is predicted to detect thousands of clusters observed serendipitously in XMM-Newton pointings. We investigate automating optical follow-up o…
Multi-Tree Methods for Statistics on Very Large Datasets in Astronomy
Alexander G. Gray, Andrew W. Moore, Robert C. Nichol +3
Many fundamental statistical methods have become critical tools for scientific data analysis yet do not scale tractably to modern large datasets. This paper will describe very rece…