| Paper Title |
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Authors |
| Front Matter |
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| Book Cover |
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| Front Matter |
1 |
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| Part I. Algorithms and Methods |
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| Improving the Statistical Methodology of Astronomical Data Analysis |
3 |
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| The Application of Artificial Intelligence to Astronomical Scheduling Problems |
11 |
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| Modelling Astrophysical Turbulent Convection |
23 |
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| Numerical Simulations of Plasmas and Their Spectra |
33 |
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| The Pixon Method of Image Reconstruction |
43 |
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| Infrared Jitter Imaging Data Reduction: Algorithms and Implementation |
53 |
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| Computational Technology for Bayesian Inference |
57 |
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| HEALPix—a Framework for High Resolution, Fast Analysis on the Sphere |
67 |
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| Multi-Tree Methods for Statisics on Very Large Datasets in Astronomy |
73 |
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| Astrostatistics: Goodness-of-Fit and All That! |
77 |
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| Automated Astrometry |
87 |
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| AD Conversion Revisited in the Frequency Domain |
95 |
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| Mixing Bayesian Techniques for Effective Real-time Classification of Astronomical Transients |
105 |
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| Cross-identification of Astronomical Objects: Playing with Dice |
109 |
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| Fitting Galaxies on GPUs |
115 |
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| Part II. Archives and Databases |
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| The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database |
121 |
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| Archiving Data from Ground-Based Observatories |
123 |
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| Recommendations for a Service Framework to Access Astronomical Archives |
133 |
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| Distributed Astronomical Data Archives |
139 |
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| The New Astrophysics Data System |
147 |
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| Indexing and Searching Distributed Astronomical Data Archives |
151 |
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| Archives of Data from Ground-Based Observatories |
155 |
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| The VLT Science Archive System |
161 |
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| The HST Science Data Archive as a Discovery Tool: First Experiment |
165 |
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| The Multimission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute |
169 |
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| The SIRTF Science Center Is Alive And Well And Living In Pasadena |
173 |
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| The SuperCOSMOS Science Archive |
177 |
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| The Design of the W. M. Keck Observatory Archive |
181 |
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| SAADA: Astronomical Databases Made Easier |
187 |
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| The Many Faces of SIMBAD |
197 |
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| Organizing the LSST Database for Real-Time Astronomical Processing |
205 |
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| The HST Cache—A Technical Overview |
209 |
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| Part III. Data Formats |
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| Definition of a Distribution Format for X-Ray Data |
215 |
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| Representations of Celestial Coordinates in FITS |
221 |
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| Optimal Compression of Floating-Point FITS Images |
225 |
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| LOFAR and HDF5: Toward a New Radio Data Standard |
229 |
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| Part IV. Data Mining and Virtual Observatory |
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| Astrobrowse: A Multi-site, Multi-wavelength Service for Locating Astronomical Resources on the Web |
235 |
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| ESO/CDS Data-mining Tool Development Project |
239 |
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| Distributed Data Systems and Services for Astronomy and the Space Sciences |
243 |
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| Using XML for Accessing Resources in Astronomy |
253 |
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| The National Virtual Observatory |
257 |
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| Data Mining and the Virtual Observatory: A Data Centre Viewpoint |
267 |
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| Science with Virtual Observatory Tools |
273 |
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| Theoretical Support to Observational data in VO Context |
283 |
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| Astronomy in the Framework of the Virtual Observatory |
287 |
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| Long-Term Preservation of Astronomical Research Results |
297 |
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| Cloudspace: Virtual Environments in the VO |
301 |
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| Astronomy 2020: A Pragmatic Approach |
305 |
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| The Virtual Observatory: Retrospective and Prospectus |
315 |
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| Data Mining in the SIMBAD Database Web Log Files |
323 |
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| Semantic Interlinking of Resources in the Virtual Observatory Era |
327 |
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| Part V. Data Reduction Systems and Environments |
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| IRAF in the Nineties |
339 |
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| The AstroVR Collaboratory, An On-line Multi-User Environment for Research in Astrophysics |
351 |
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| A Home-Grown But Widely-Distributed Data Analysis System |
361 |
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| Scisoft—A Collection of Astronomical Software for ESO Users |
369 |
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| The AIPS++ Project |
373 |
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| Gaia Data processing Architecture |
377 |
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| Part VI. Education, Outreach, and Publishing |
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| Electronic Publishing & Advanced Information Retrieval |
389 |
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| Electronic Publishing at the American Astronomical Society |
401 |
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| Teaching Astronomy via the Internet |
409 |
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| Linking and Tagging Initiatives at the Astrophysical Journal |
413 |
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| Tools and Services for Education and Outreach: Accessing Real Astronomical Data |
419 |
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| Part VII. Image Processing and Visualization |
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| Deconvolution for Real and Synthetic Apertures |
429 |
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| Restoration of Images and Spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope |
437 |
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| Difmap: An Interactive Program for Synthesis Imaging |
447 |
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| The Design and Implementation of Synthesis Calibration and Imaging in AIPS++ |
455 |
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| Realtime, Object-oriented Reduction of Parkes Multibeam Data using AIPS++ |
463 |
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| 3D Visualization and Detection of Outflows From Young Stars |
473 |
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| Visualization-Directed Interactive Model-Fitting to Spectral Data Cubes |
477 |
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| Computer Vision for the Solar Dynamics Observatory: First Results and What's Next |
481 |
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| Part VIII. Miscellaneous |
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| Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Networked Workstations as a parallel Processing Computer |
493 |
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| Radio to X-Ray Observation of Quasars |
497 |
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| Photometric Calibration of the Digitized Sky Survey |
507 |
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| World Coordinate Systems as Objects |
511 |
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| Reflections on a Decade of ADASS |
515 |
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| There (70°S @ 10,177 m) and Back Again, An Umbraphile's Tale |
525 |
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| Seamless Distributed Observing with eSTAR |
535 |
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| The State of ADASS |
539 |
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| Part IX. Pipelines |
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| OPUS-97: A Generalized Operational Pipeline System |
547 |
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| ORAC-DR: Pipelining With Other People's Code |
551 |
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| The SDSS Imaging Pipelines |
555 |
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| The TERAPIX Pipeline |
565 |
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| An Automatic Image Reduction Pipeline for the Advanced Camera for Surveys |
575 |
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| XAssist: A System for the Automation of X-ray Astrophysics Analysis |
579 |
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| NICRED: A NICMOS Image Processing Pipeline |
583 |
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| Automating Reduction of Miltifiber Spectra from the MMT Hectospec and Hectochelle |
587 |
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| MegaPipe: the MegaCam Image Stacking Pipeline |
591 |
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| The LOFAR Pulsar Data Pipeline |
595 |
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| The Herschel Data Processing System — HIPE and Pipelines — Up and Running Since the Start of the Mission |
599 |
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| Part X. Software Tools and Packages |
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| ASURV: Astronomy Survival Analysis Package |
605 |
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| Aladin: Towards an Interactive Atlas of the Digitized Sky |
609 |
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| XSPEC: The First Ten Years |
613 |
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| CFITSIO, v2.0: A New Full-Featured Data interface |
617 |
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| WCSTools: An Image Astrometry Toolkit |
621 |
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| An Array Module for Python |
625 |
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| ChaRT: The Chandra Ray Tracer |
629 |
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| Data Reduction Software for the VLT Integral Field Spectrometer SPIFFI |
633 |
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| ImgCutout, an Engine of Instantaneous Astronomical Discovery |
637 |
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| TOPCAT & STIL: Starlink Table/VOTable Processing Software |
641 |
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| CUPID: A Clump Identification and Analysis Package |
647 |
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| The Montage Image Mosaic Service: Custom Image Mosaics On-Demand |
651 |
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| Part XI. Scientific Software Development |
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| C++, Objected-Oriented Programming, and Astronomical Data Models |
657 |
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| Subject-Oriented Programming |
669 |
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| Creating an Object-Oriented Software System—The AIPS++ Exoerience |
679 |
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| Other People's Software |
689 |
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| Scientific Computing with Python |
693 |
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| The Aladin Java Applet Experience |
703 |
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| The ALADIN Survey Integrator |
707 |
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| Astronomical Software—A Review |
711 |
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| Software Engineering Practices for the ESO VLT Programme |
717 |
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| The XMM-Newton SAS — Distributed Development and Maintenance of a Large Science Analysis System: A Critical Analysis |
727 |
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| The Development of SAOImage DS9: Lessons Learned from a Small but Successful Software Project |
733 |
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| Quality Management in Astronomical Software and Data Systems |
737 |
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| Talking Amongst Ourselves — Communication in the Astronomical Software Community |
747 |
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| The True Bottleneck of Modern Scientific Computing in Astronomy |
753 |
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| Part XII. Surveys |
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| The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Archive |
759 |
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| Palomar-QUEST: A case study in designing sky surveys in the VO era |
769 |
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| Time Domain Explorations with Digital Sky Surveys |
773 |
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| LSST and the Dark Sector: Image Processing Challenges |
779 |
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| Back Matter |
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| Author Index |
787 |
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| Back Matter |
791 |
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