Data central's data aggregation service

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Abstract

Astronomers routinely have to collate heterogeneous observational data for one or several targets from a variety of online resources. Traditionally this process of data aggregation can be time consuming and error prone, especially if multiple telescope archives or data centres are searched individually. To streamline this task we have developed Data Central's Data Aggregation Service (DAS), an interactive web application that leverages Aladin Lite to display images and catalogues resulting from multiple online service queries of a given target. The modern asynchronous Python design allows these queries to be sent simultaneously and individual results are quickly displayed as soon as they are received. The DAS also hosts Pipeline As a Web Service (PAWS) data reduction workflows that may be triggered on demand. The DAS can effectively unlock science from unreduced data in telescope archives and may help manage the massive data volumes expected from next generation facilities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSoftware and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII
EditorsJorge Ibsen, Gianluca Chiozzi
Place of PublicationWashington
PublisherSPIE
Pages1-4
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781510653603
ISBN (Print)9781510653597
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventSoftware and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII 2022 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 17 Jul 202221 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE
PublisherSPIE
Volume12189
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceSoftware and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period17/07/2221/07/22

Keywords

  • Data aggregation service
  • asynchronous cross-matching
  • pipeline as a web service
  • telescope archives
  • multi-wavelength visualisation
  • Aladin Lite

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