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Stingray 2: A fast and modern Python library forspectral timing Open

Matteo Bachetti, Daniela Huppenkothen, Abigail Stevens, J. Swinbank, Guglielmo Mastroserio , et al. · 2024

LOFAR discovery of a quiet emission mode in PSR B0823+26 Open

C. Sobey, Neil J. Young, J. W. T. Hessels, P. Weltevrede, A. Noutsos , et al. · 2024

PSR B0823+26, a 0.53-s radio pulsar, displays a host of emission phenomena over time-scales of seconds to (at least) hours, including nulling, subpulse drifting, and mode-changing. Studying pulsars like PSR B0823+26 provides further insigh…

The Future of Astronomical Data Infrastructure: Meeting Report Open

Michael R. Blanton, Janet D. Evans, Dara Norman, William O’Mullane, Adrian M. Price-Whelan , et al. · 2023

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 combining archives of data. To address this challenge, we p…

The energy consumption and carbon footprint of the LOFAR telescope Open

Gert Kruithof, C. Bassa, Irene Bonati, W. van Cappellen, Anne Doek , et al. · 2023

The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is a European radio telescope operating since 2010 in the frequency bands 10 - 80 MHz and 110 - 250 MHz. This article provides an analysis of the energy consumption and the carbon footprint of LOFAR. The app…

Feasibility of access EGI resources through the ESCAPE developed ESFRI Science Analysis Platform Open

Giuliano Taffoni, Sara Bertocco, D. Morris, Manu Parra-Royón, Klaas Kliffen , et al. · 2023

The EU ESCAPE project is developing ESAP, ESFRI 1 Scientific Analysis Platform, as an API gateway that enables the seamless integration of independent services accessing distributed data and computing resources. In ESCAPE we are exploring …

ESCAPE D5.4: Final Assessment of the Performance of the Science Platform Prototype Open

J. Swinbank, Sara Bertocco, James Collinson, Matthias Füßling, Y. G. Grange , et al. · 2023

This document provides an evaluation of the vision for, the delivered capabilities of, and the future prospects for ESAP, the ESFRI Science Analysis Platform. ESAP is a key part of the interface between the services delivered by the ESCAPE…

Software Architecture and System Design of Rubin Observatory Open

William O’Mullane, Frossie Economou, Kian-Tat Lim, Fritz Mueller, T. Jenness , et al. · 2022

Starting from a description of the Rubin Observatory Data Management System Architecture, and drawing on our experience with and involvement in a range of other projects including Gaia, SDSS, UKIRT, and JCMT, we derive a series of generic …

ESCAPE Legacy Booklet Open

G. Lamanna, Ian M. Bird, Mark Allen, Julie Chaudan, Maud Coppel , et al. · 2022

The ESCAPE Legacy Booklet presents overall ESCAPE project achievements, lessons learnt and recommendations.

ESAP: The ESCAPE ESFRI Science Analysis Platform Open

J. Swinbank, Sara Bertocco, Stefano Alberto Russo, S. Sánchez–Expósito · 2022

An overview of the ESAP system presented at ADASS XXXI

ESCAPE D5.3: Performance Assessment of Initial Science Platform Prototype Open

J. Swinbank, Ian M. Bird, Hugh Dickinson, R. Garrido, Gareth Hughes , et al. · 2021

This document reports on the current status of ESAP, the ESFRI Science Analysis Platform. ESAP is a key part of the interface between the services delivered by the ESCAPE project and the scientific community: it will provide a unified mech…

StingraySoftware/stingray: Version 0.3 Open

Matteo Bachetti, Daniela Huppenkothen, Usman Khan, Hiranmaya Mishra, Swapnil Sharma , et al. · 2021

New features and changes: Lots of performance improvements Faster simulations Averaged Power spectra and Cross spectra now handle Gaussian light curves correctly Fixes in rebin functions New statistical functions for signal detection in po…

Identifying transient and variable sources in radio images Open

A. Rowlinson, A. Stewart, J. W. Broderick, J. Swinbank, R. A. M. J. Wijers , et al. · 2019

Real Time Image Differencing with the LSST Alert Production Pipeline Open

Meredith L. Rawls, Eric C. Bellm, K. Findeisen, S. Krughoff, Christopher Morrison , et al. · 2019

The Alert Production (AP) Pipeline for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) must promptly process new images from the telescope to enable rapid-response time domain science. It begins with raw telescope data and uses image differenci…

An Overview of the LSST Image Processing Pipelines Open

James Bosch, Yusra AlSayyad, R. Armstrong, Eric C. Bellm, Hsin‐Fang Chiang , et al. · 2018

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an ambitious astronomical survey with a similarly ambitious Data Management component. Data Management for LSST includes processing on both nightly and yearly cadences to generate transient ale…

Identifying transient and variable sources in radio images Open

A. Rowlinson, A. Stewart, J. W. Broderick, J. Swinbank, R. A. M. J. Wijers , et al. · 2018

With the arrival of a number of wide-field snapshot image-plane radio transient surveys, there will be a huge influx of images in the coming years making it impossible to manually analyse the datasets. Automated pipelines to process the in…

RFI Flagging Implications for Short-Duration Transients Open

Y. Cendes, Peeyush Prasad, A. Rowlinson, R. A. M. J. Wijers, J. Swinbank , et al. · 2018

With their wide fields of view and often relatively long coverage of any position in the sky in imaging survey mode, modern radio telescopes provide a data stream that is naturally suited to searching for rare transients. However, Radio Fr…

RFI flagging implications for short-duration transients Open

Y. Cendes, Peeyush Prasad, A. Rowlinson, R. A. M. J. Wijers, J. Swinbank , et al. · 2018

LOFAR 150-MHz observations of SS 433 and W 50 Open

J. W. Broderick, R. P. Fender, J. C. A. Miller‐Jones, С. А. Трушкин, A. Stewart , et al. · 2018

We present Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) high-band data over the frequency range 115-189 MHz for the X-ray binary SS 433, obtained in an observing campaign from 2013 February to 2014 May. Our results include a deep, wide-field map, allowing …

ThunderKAT: The MeerKAT Large Survey Project for Image-Plane Radio Transients Open

R. P. Fender, P. Woudt, Richard Armstrong, P. Groot, V. A. McBride , et al. · 2017

ThunderKAT is the image-plane transients programme for MeerKAT. The goal as outlined in 2010, and still today, is to find, identify and understand high-energy astrophysical processes via their radio emission (often in concert with observat…

IVOA Recommendation: VOEvent Transport Protocol Version 2.0 Open

Alasdair Allan, Robert B. Denny, J. Swinbank · 2017

The IVOA VOEvent Recommendation defines a means of describing transient celestial events but, purposely, remains silent on the topic of how those descriptions should be transmitted. This document formalizes a TCP-based protocol for VOEvent…

Dmtn-030V1: Science Pipelines Documentation Design Open

Jonathan Sick, Mandeep Gill, S. Krughoff, J. Swinbank · 2017

A design discussion and implementation plan for the pipelines.lsst.io documentation project, including information design and topic templates.

LOFAR Bootes and 3C295 field sources Open

R. J. van Weeren, W. L. Williams, C. Tasse, H. J. A. Röttgering, D. A. Rafferty , et al. · 2017

Measuring the expansion velocity of the outflows of LS I +61 303 through low-frequency radio observations Open

B. Marcote, M. Ribó, J. M. Paredes, C. H. Ishwara‐Chandra, J. Swinbank , et al. · 2017

LS I +61 303 is a gamma-ray binary that exhibits an outburst at GHz frequencies each orbital cycle of 26.5 d and a superorbital modulation with a period of 4.6 yr. We have performed a detailed study of the low-frequency radio emission of L…

The AARTFAAC All-Sky Monitor: System Design and Implementation Open

Peeyush Prasad, Folkert Huizinga, E. Kooistra, D. van der Schuur, A. W. Gunst , et al. · 2016

The Amsterdam–ASTRON Radio Transients Facility and Analysis Center (AARTFAAC) all-sky monitor is a sensitive, real-time transient detector based on the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR). It generates images of the low frequency radio sky with sp…

LOFAR imaging of Cygnus A – direct detection of a turnover in the hotspot radio spectra Open

J. P. McKean, L. Godfrey, S. Vegetti, M. W. Wise, R. Morganti , et al. · 2016

This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. © 2016 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Agile software development in an earned value world: a survival guide Open

Jeffrey Kantor, K.R. Long, Jacek Becla, Frossie Economou, M. M. Gel'man , et al. · 2016

Agile methodologies are current best practice in software development. They are favored for, among other reasons, preventing premature optimization by taking a somewhat short-term focus, and allowing frequent replans/reprioritizations of u…

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: overview, recent progress, and future perspectives Open

Naoyuki Tamura, Naruhisa Takato, Atsushi Shimono, Yuki Moritani, Kiyoto Yabe , et al. · 2016

Volume Number: 9908 - Date Published: 1 December 2016 - Softcover: 292 papers (3496) pages - ISBN: 9781510601956

LBCS: The LOFAR Long-Baseline Calibrator Survey Open

N. Jackson, A. Tagore, Adam T. Deller, J. Moldòn, E. Varenius , et al. · 2016

We outline the LOFAR Long-Baseline Calibrator Survey (LBCS), whose aim is to identify sources suitable for calibrating the highest-resolution observations made with the International LOFAR Telescope, which include baselines >1000 km. Suita…

Investigating interoperability of the LSST data management software stack with Astropy Open

T. Jenness, James Bosch, Russell Owen, John K. Parejko, Jonathan Sick , et al. · 2016

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be an 8.4m optical survey telescope sited in Chile and capable of imaging the entire sky twice a week. The data rate of approximately 15 TB per night and the requirements to both issue alerts on tra…

Correction: Corrigendum: A large light-mass component of cosmic rays at 1017–1017.5 electronvolts from radio observations Open

S. Buitink, A. Corstanje, H. Falcke, J. R. Hörandel, T. Huege , et al. · 2016

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