New Visualization and Analysis Capabilities for SDSS DR19

FD2
12 Nov 2025, 14:00
30m
Synagoge

Synagoge

Görlitz
Focus demo Science platforms in the big data era Focus Demo 2

Speakers

Anne-Marie Weijmans (University of St Andrews) Brian Cherinka (Space Telescope Science Institute) Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp

Description

The latest SDSS Data Release 19 comes with a new suite of tools for helping astronomers and students visualize and analyze the vast richness of this dataset. In this demo we will showcase several of these tools, including the Zora web application - a modern and reactive interface for searching SDSS data, exploring observed target metadata, and visualizing or accessing spectral data - and the new Navigate and SQLxMatch tools on the SkyServer web portal - used respectively for browsing through SDSS source catalogs, footprints, and geometries on an interactive sky map, and for running on-the-fly cross-matches of SDSS objects against more than 50 other astronomical catalogs. Lastly, we will illustrate some DR19 science use cases with Jupyter Notebook tutorials in SciServer Compute.

Affiliation of the submitter Johns Hopkins University
Attendance in-person

Primary authors

Ani Thakar (Johns Hopkins University) Anne-Marie Weijmans (University of St Andrews) Brian Cherinka (Space Telescope Science Institute) Joel Brownstein (University of Utah) John Donor (Texas Christian University) Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp

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