The 35th annual conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems 2025 in Görlitz, Germany

After about 15 years of operations, much of the software and hardware of the LOFAR radio telescope is upgraded to deliver LOFAR 2.0. Part of this upgrade is a renewed software architecture.

LOFAR 1 consisted mostly of in-house software products and protocols for its functionality, information exchange, and service management. These codes ran on open source OSes and libraries.

LOFAR 2...

XMMGPT is a dual-purpose project which aims to serve as a unique access point to aid astronomers in their research with XMM-Newton data, and as an exploration of language models and AI systems within European Space Agency (ESA) workflows. 

The system is comprised of 4 main parts, a heavily customized Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline, a visibility checker tool, a...

SciServer is a high-impact, highly successful Science Platform with a well-developed existing code base; an established user community; and demonstrated impact on scientific discovery, research, and education. SciServer has demonstrated a transformational impact in astronomy, providing collaborative features such as groups and file sharing, and free computational resources to access large...