Data Analysis in Astronomy II

ISBN-13: 9781461293170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 399 str.

Opis

The II international workshop on "Data Analysis in Astronomy" was intended to provide an overview on the state of the art and the trend in data analy- sis and image processing in the context of their applications in Astronomy. The need for the organization of a second workshop in this subject derived from the steady. growing and development in the field and from the increasing cross-interaction between methods, technology and applications in Astronomy. The book is organized in four main sections: - Data Analysis Methodologies - Data Handling and Systems dedicated to Large Experiments - Parallel Processing - New Developments The topics which have been selected cover some of the main fields in data analysis in Astronomy. Methods that provide a major contribution to the physical interpretation of the data have been considered. Attention has been devoted to the description of the data analysis and handling organization in very large experiments. A review of the current major satellite and ground based experiments has been included. At the end of the book the following 'Panel Discussions' are included: - Data Analysis Trend in Optical and Radio Astronomy - Data Analysis Trend in X and Gamma Astronomy - Problems and Solutions in the Design of Very Large Experiments - Trend on Parallel Processing Algorithms These contributions in a sense summarize the 'live' reaction of the audience to the various topics.

Spis treści

Data Analysis Methodologies.- A Statistician’s View of Data Analysis.- Cluster Photometry: Present State of the Art and Future Developments.- Clustering Techniques and their Applications.- Problems and Solutions in Surface Photometry.- Classification of Low-Resolution Stellar Spectra via Template Matching — A Simulation Study.- An Approach to the Astronomical Optical Data Compression.- Coded Aperture Imaging.- Study of Pulsar Ligth Curves by Cluster Analysis.- Multivariate Cluster Analysis of Radio Pulsar Data.- Automatic Processing of Very Low-Dispersion Spectra.- Data Handling Systems Dedicated to Large Experiments.- VLA: Methodological and Computational Requirements.- Perspective on Data Analysis for the Space Telescope.- Present and Planned Large Groundbased Telescopes: an Overview of some Computer and Data Analysis Applications Associated with their Use.- Data Analysis for the ROSAT Mission.- Preparing Analysis of Hubble Space Telescope Data in Europe.- COMPASS: the COMPTEL Processing and Analysis Software System.- The Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre (CDS) and the Setting Up of a European Astronomical Data Network.- An Indexing Algorithm for Large Multidimensional Arrays.- The European Scientific Data Archive for the Hubble Space Telescope.- Parallel Processing.- Cellular Machines: Theory and Practice.- The PAPIA Project.- Languages for Parallel Processors.- The Massively Parallel Processor: a Highly Parallel Scientific Computer.- Parallel Processing: from Low- to High-Level Vision.- Low Level Languages for the PAPIA Machine.- New Developments.- Expert Systems for Data Analysis.- An Unified View of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision.- Data Storage and Retrieval in Astronomy.- Vector Computers in Astronomical Data Analysis.- Panel Discussions.- Data Analysis Trend in Optical and Radio Astronomy.- Data Analysis Trends in X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy.- Problems in Large Scale Experiments.- Trends in Parallel Processing Applications.