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ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFICCONFERENCE SERIES
Volume 314
ASTRONOMICAL DATA ANALYSISSOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS XIII
Proceedings of a meeting held atStrasbourg, France12-15 October 2003
Edited by4
Francois OchsenbeinCDS, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France
Mark G. Allen
CDS, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France
and
Daniel EgretObservatoire de Paris, France
SAN FRANCISCO
Contents
Preface xixParticipant List xxiConference Photograph xxxix
Part 1. Surveys & Large-Scale Data ManagementThe ESO Imaging Survey Project: Building a Survey Software System . . 3
L. da Costa, C. Rite, and R. G. Slijkhuis
Palomar-QUEST: A case study in designing sky surveys in the VO era . . 14
M. J. Graham, R. Williams, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, C. Baltay,D. Rabinowitz, A. Bauer, J. Snyder, N. Morgan, P. Andrews, A. S. Szalay,R. J. Brunner, and J. Musser
The LOFAR Global Sky Model: Some Design Challenges 18
O. M. Smirnov and J. E. Noordam
Data Archive and Transfer System (DARTS) of ISAS 22T. Tamura, H. Baba, K. Matsuzaki, A. Miura, I. Shinohara, F. Nagase,M. Fukushi, and K. Uchida
User provided reduced data, catalogues and atlases in the ISO DataArchive 26
A. Salama, I. Ortiz, C. Arviset, J. Dowson, P. Garcia-Lario, C. Gry,J. Hernandez, R. Lorente, J. JMatagne, P. Osuna, J. Salgado, andE. Verdugo
On the Analysis of Old Objective-Prism Plate Spectra with ModernSystems 30
C. Rossi, V. F. Polcaro, R. F. Viotti, A. Filippi, S. Pedicelli, andA. Omizzolo
The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP): Optical Data Processingand Catalog Generation 34
R. A. Cameron, W. A. Barkhouse, P. J. Green, A. E. Mossman,J. D. Silverman, and B. J. Wilkes
Prom FITS to SQL - Loading and Publishing the SDSS Data . .\ 38A. Thakar, A. S. Szalay, and J. Gray
Adapting the BIMA Image Pipeline for Miriad Using Python 42
D. M. Mehringer and R. Plante
Searching for a cosmic string through the graviational lens effect: JapaneseVirtual Observatory science use case 46
Y. Shirasaki, Y. Mizumoto, M. Ohishi, N. Yasuda, M. Tanaka, S. Honda,H. Yahagi, M. Nagashima, G. Kosugi, N. Kashikawa, E. Matsuzaki,F. Kakimoto, and S. Ogio
Towards a Large Field of View Archive for the European VLBI Network . 50if. J. van Langevelde, F. M. Olnon, H. Verkouter, B. Kramer,M. A. Garrett, A. Szomoru, S. M. Parsley, and A. Bos
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The INTEGRAL Archive System 54M. T. Meharga, P. Binko, K. Pottschmidt, M. Beck, R. Walter, andT. McGlynn
C l u s t e r i n g t h e l a r g e V i z i e R c a t a l o g u e s , t h e C o C a t e x p e r i e n c e . . . . . . . 5 8
F. Ochsenbein, S. Derriere, S. Nicaisse, and A. Schaaff
HST/ACS Associations: the Next Step after WFPC2 62R. Hook, D. Durand, L. Simard, D. Schade, A. Koekemoer, M. Corbin, andA. Micol
Distributed Data Storage 66J. K. Withington
Increasing the Accessibility of Green Bank Telescope Data 70K. O'Neil, N. Radziwill, and R. Maddalena
The NOAO Pipeline Data Manager 74R. Hiriart, F. Valdes, F. Pierfederici, C. Smith, and M. Miller
The D4A Digitiser 77J.-P. De Cuyper, L. Winter, and J. Vanommeslaeghe
Transparent XML Binding using the ALMA Common Software (ACS)Container/Component Framework 81
H. Sommer, G. Chiozzi, D. Fugate, and M. Sekoranja
A L M A P r o p o s a l P r e p a r a t i o n : S u p p o r t i n g t h e N o v i c e a n d t h e E x p e r t . . . 8 5
A. Bridger, J. Schwarz, D. A. Clarke, A. M. Chavan, H. Sommer, andM. Schilling
The ALMA Prototype Science Pipeline 89L. E. Davis, B. E. Glendenning, and D. Tody
T h e A L M A A r c h i v e : A C e n t r a l i z e d S y s t e m f o r I n f o r m a t i o n S e r v i c e s . . . 9 3
A. Wicenec, S. Farrow, S. Gaudet, N. Hill, H. Meuss, and A. Stirling
Flexible Storage of Astronomical Data in the ALMA Archive' 97H. Meuss, A. Wicenec, and S. Farrow
ALMA On-Line Calibration Software 101D. Broguiere, F. Cosson, H. Hafok, R. Lucas, and J. Pardo
Part 2. Image RestorationWavelet-Based Superresolution in Astronomy 107
R. M. Willett, I. Jermyn, R. D. Nowak, and J. Zerubia
Scale sensitive deconvolution 117S. Bhatnagar and T. J. Cornwell
SAADA: An Automatic Archival System for Astronomical Data 121JV. H. Nguyen, L. Michel, and C. Motch
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Using a Reversed Exposure Time Calculator for Querying UncalibratedArchives 125
B. Voisin, A. Micol, S. OTuairisg, R. Butler, A. Golden, and A. Shearer
Adapting ISO and XMM-Newton Archives to Inter-Operability VOStandards . ' . ' . . " . 129
P. Osuna, C. Arviset, and J. Salgado
Chandra FITS Dictionary 133S. L. Winkelman, A. H. Rots, K. Michaud, and S. E. Blecksmith
The SuperCOSMOS Science Archive 137N. Hambly, M. Read, R. Mann, E. Sutorius, I. Bond, H. MacGillivray,P. Williams, and A. Lawrence
A Comparison of Large All-Sky Catalogs 141D. J. Mink, W. R. Brown, and M. J. Kurtz
High Availability Architecture for the Chandra Data Archive 145P. Zografou, P. Harbo, K. J. McCusker, J. Moran, A. Patz, P. Ramadurai,and D. Van Stone
A Domino-based Virtual Observatory Service for the HI Parkes All SkySurvey 149
D. G. Barnes and T. N. Stepborg
The Optical Monitoring Camera Data Server: Contents andFunctionalities 153
R. Gutierrez, E. Solano, A. Domingo, and J. Garcia
The Skysoft Project 157C. Baffa, E. Giani, and A. Checcucci
The Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-excess Galaxies (KUG) 161N. Miyauchi-Isobe, K. Nakajima, and H. Maehara
Korean Astronomical Data Center Prototype Release \ 165H.-i. Sung, S. C. Kim, I. S. Yim, H.-W. Nam, B. G. Kim, J. Kim, andD.-J. Lee
Data Fusion from Diverse Resources for Optical Identification of RadioSources 169
0. P. Zhelenkova and V. V. Vitkovskij
Merging data from a collection of Catalogues : . . . 173P. Ortiz
Open SkyQuery - VO Compliant Dynamic Federation of AstronomicalArchives 177
T. Budavari, A. S. Szalay, J. Gray, W. O'Mullane, R. Williams, A. Thakar,T. Malik, N. Yasuda, and R. Mann
Publishing Links to Astronomical Data On-line 181A. Accomazzi and G. Eichhorn
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Spectrum and Bandpass Services for the Virtual Observatory 185L. Dobos, T. Budavari, I. Csabai, and A. S. Szalay
Federating Datasets with Spatial Joins 189C. G. Page
ISDC's DAL and DAL3 libraries 193B. O'Neel, M. Beck, L. Lerusse, R. Walter, J. Peachey, D. Jennings, andS. Paltani
Review of the ASTROVIRTEL Experience at the end of its ThreeApproved Cycles 197
A. Micol, F. Pierfederici, and P. Benvenuti
Build Your Own SkyNode! 201N. Purger, T. Budavari, A. S. Szalay, A. Thakar, and I. Csabai
ATLAS - A General Search Service for Complex Data Collections 205A. Alexov and J. Good
WFPC2 Associations Pipeline: Publishing HST archives within VO . . . 209D. Durand, A. Micol, D. Schade, L. Simard, M. Corbin, R. Hook,A. Koekemoer, and M. Donahue
Access to Atomic and Molecular Data/Databases in the VO 213M. L. Dubernet, B. Debray A. Grosjean, M. Bruston, F. Combes,M. Cornille, D. Egret, C. Stehle, L. Tchang-Brillet, and C. Zeippen
BDB - a database for all types of double stars 217E. Oblak, B. Debray, and T. Kundera
New features for Aladin 2.0 221T. Boch, P. Fernique, and F. Bonnarel
PostgreSQL: the Suitable DBMS Solution for Astronomy andAstrophysics '•, 225
I. Chilingarian, O. Bartunov, J. Richter, and T. Sigaev
Electronic Journals as Databases 229A. Holl
Information System on Binary Stars 233O. Yu. Malkov, E. Yu. Kilpio, E. Snegireva, and M. Tuchin
Part 3. Algorithms & ClassificationPromises and Challenges in Automatic Pattern Recognition 239
T. K. Ho
Multi-Tree Methods for Statistics on Very Large Datasets in Astronomy . 249A. G. Gray, A. W. Moore, R. C. Nichol, A. J. Connolly, C. Genovese, andL. Wasserman
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Source Detection with Bayesian Inference on ROSAT All-Sky Survey DataSample 253
F. Guglielmetti, W. Voges, R. Fischer, G. Boese, and V. Dose
DRACO and the Italian Participation in Virtual Observatory Activities. . 257
F. Pasian and L. Benacchio
Organization of Data Sets in Virtual Observatories 261
M. G. Allen, F. Bonnarel, T. Boch, P. Fernique, and M. Louys
MMDSL: a Multi-Mission Data Server at LAEFF 265
E. Solano, R. Gutierrez, B. Montesinos, C. Morales, and J. Garcia
Spectral Data Models for the Virtual Observatory 269
J. C. McDowell, S. Lowe, M. Cresitello-Dittmar, J. DePonte Evans,I. Evans, A. H. Rots, and M. Harris
Resource Metadata for the Virtual Observatory 273R. Hanisch, G. Greene, A. Linde, R. Plante, A. M. S. Richards, E. Auden,K. T. Noddle, and W. O'Mullane
Designing a Data Model for the Virtual Observatory 277
M. Cresitello-Dittmar, J. DePonte Evans, I. Evans, M. Harris, S. Lowe,J. C. McDowell, and A. H. Rots
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Astronomical Catalogues - Simultaneous Querying and Matching 281
H.-M. Adorf, G. Lemson, W. Voges, H. Enke, and M. Steinmetz
Searchable Registry for the National Virtual Observatory 285
G. Greene, W. O'Mullane, R. Hanisch, and N. Gaffney
HTM2: Spatial Toolkit for the Virtual Observatory 289
G. Fekete, A. S. Szalay, and J. Gray
Astronomical Data Query Language: Simple Query Protocol for theVirtual Observatory \ . . . \ 293
N. Yasuda, Y. Mizumoto, M. Ohishi, W. O'Mullane, T. Budavari,V. Haridas, N. Li, T. Malik, A. S. Szalay, M. Hill, T. Linde, B. Mann, andC. G. Page
A Prototype toward Japanese Virtual Observatory (JVO) 296
M. Ohishi, Y. Mizumoto, N. Yasuda, Y. Shirasaki, M. Tanaka, S. Honda,Y. Masunaga, K. Miura, H. Monzen, K. Kawarai, Y. Ishihara,Y. Yamaguchi, and H. Yanaka
VO Enabled Mirage and the IVOA Client Package 300
S. Carliles, T. K. Ho, and W. O'Mullane
The AVO Prototype 304
P. J. Quinn, M. Allen, K. Andrews, T. Boch, F. Bonnarel, S. Derriere,M. Dolensky, P. Fernique, M. Hill, M. C. Leoni, A. Linde, A. Micol,B. Pirenne, A. M. S. Richards, A. Schaaff, G. Tissier, N. A. Walton, andA. Wicenec
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TWiki: A Collaboration Platform for VO Projects 307M. C. Leoni, M. Dolensky R. Bentley, T. Goodwin, and T. Linde
Virtual Solar Inc 311R.D. Bentley, F. Hill, and N. Hurlburt
UCD in the IVOA context 315S. Derriere, N. Gray, J. C. McDowell, R. Mann, F. Ochsenbein, P. Osuna,A. Preite Martinez, G. Rixon, and R. Williams
A Data Inventory Service for the Virtual Observatory 319T. McGlynn, J. Lee, R. Hanisch, G. Greene, and W. O'Mullane
Proposal for a Quantity-based Data Model in the Virtual Observatory . . 323B. Thomas and E. Shaya
Web Services and Related Works at CDS 327A. Schaaff
The AstroGrid MySpace System 330A. C. Davenhall, C. L. Qin, K. T. Noddle, and N. A. Walton
A Prototype Publishing Registry for the Virtual Observatory 334R. Williamson and R. Plante
Survey among Spectral Data Providers and Consumers 338M. Dolensky and D. Doug
Locating Virtual Observatory Resources With the Astrogrid Registry . . 342E. Auden, T. Linde, K. T. Noddle, A. M. S. Richards, and N. A. Walton
VOTable JAVA Streaming Writer and Applications 346P. Kulkarni, A. Kembhavi, and S. Kale
VOPlot: A Toolkit for Scientific Discovery using VOTables 350S. Kale, T. M. Vijayaraman, A. Kembhavi, P. R. Krishnan, A. Navelkar,H. Hegde, P. Kulkarni, and K. D. Balaji
Data Compression in Astronomy 354J. C. Rountree
Part 4. High Performance ComputingThe European Grid Infrastructure EGEE Project 357
F. Gagliardi
Hyperatlas: A New Framework for Image Federation 364R. Williams, S. G. Djorgovski, M. T. Feldmann, and J. Jacob
Atlasmaker: A Grid-based Implementation of the Hyperatlas 368R. Williams, S. G. Djorgovski, M. T. Feldmann, and J. Jacob
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Batch Query System with Interactive Local Storage for SDSS andtheVO 372
W. O'Mullane, J. Gray, N. Li, T. Budavari, M. A. Nieto-Santisteban, andA. S. Szalay
The HERSCHEL/PACS Common Software System as Data ReductionSystem 376
E. Wieprecht, J. BrumGt, J. Bakker, N. de Candussio, S. Guest,R. Huygen, A. de Jonge, J. J. Matthieu, S. Osterhage, S. Ott, H. Siddiqui,B. Vandenbussche, W. de Meester, M. Wetzstein, E. Wiezorrek,and P. Zaal
Data Reduction Software for the VLT Integral Field SpectrometerSPIFFI 380
J. Schreiber, N. Thatte, F. Eisenhauer, M. Tecza, R. Abuter, andM. Horrobin
The ROOT C++ Framework for Astronomy 384R. Rohlfs
Pre-processing the INTEGRAL telemetry 388N. Morisset, T. Contessi, M. T. Meharga, M. Beck, and R. Walter
The Common Pipeline Library - a silver bullet for standardisingpipelines? ." 392
K. Banse, P. Ballester, C. Izzo, Y. Jung, L. K. Lundin, D. J. McKay,A. Modigliani, R. M. Palsa, M. Kiesgen, and C. Sabet
Planck/LFI DPC Software Integration plan 396A. Zacchei, C. Vuerli, N. Lama, and F. Pasian
Grid Data Distribution strategy: Design and Implementation of a PipelineOriented Data Management System 400
N. Lama, C. Vuerli, R. Smareglia, F. Gasparo, M. Genghini, and F. Pasian
Extending Sherpa Data Analysis with S-Lang 404S. Doe, P. Freeman, R. Smith, D. Burke, and A. Siemiginowska
The SLANG/CIAO Synergy: Using S-Lang within CIAO 408G. Germain, R. Milaszewski, W. McLaughlin, and J. Miller
Developments in the Starlink AST Library - an Intelligent WCSManagement System 412
D. S. Berry
Interoperating GILDAS and MIRIAD 416J. Pety, F. Gueth, S. Guilloteau, R. Lucas, P. J. Teuben, andM. C. H. Wright
Chandra Level 3 Processing: Creating an Automated Source Catalog forChandra Data 420
R. Hain, A. Dobrzycki, I. Evans, J. DePonte Evans, P. Freeman,K. Glotfelty, M. Karovska, M. McCollough, F. Primini, and A. H. Rots
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Making FITS available on Dot Net and its applications 424V. Haridas, T. Budavari, W. O'Mullane, A. S. Szalay, A. Thakar,A. Conti, A. Volpicelli, and B. Pence
Preliminary design of the SCUBA-2 Data Reduction Pipeline 428
T. Jenness, F. Economou, D. Scott, B. D. Kelly, and W. S. Holland
The INTEGRAL Ground Segment 432R. Walter, A. Aubord, P. Bartholdi, M. Beck, V. Beckmann, P. Binko,J. Borkowski, M. Chernyakova, T. Contessi, T. J.-L. Courvoisier, P. Dubath,K. Ebisawa, P. Favre, M. Gaber, D. Gotz, T. Jaffe, D. Jennings,P. Kretschmar, D. Landriu, I. Lecoeur, L. Lerusse, T. Lock, M. Meharga,S. Mereghetti, N. Morisset, N. Mowlavi, S. Paltani, J. Peachey,K. Pottschmidt, B. O'Neel, N. Produit, R. Rohlfs, A. Sauvageon, S. Shaw,M. Tiirler, R. Diehl, A. Domingo, A. Goldwurm, L. Hansson, M. Schmidt,N.-J. Westergaard, and C. Winkler
Data Processing at the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre 436M. Beck, A. Aubord, P. Bartholdi, V. Beckmann, P. Binko, J. Borkowski,T. Contessi, T. Courvoisier, P. Dubath, K. Ebisawa, M. Gaber, D. Gotz,T. Jaffe, D. Jennings, P. Kretschmar, D. Landriu, I. Lecoeur, L. Lerusse,T. Lock, M. T. Meharga, S. Mereghetti, N. Morisset, N. Mowlavi,S. Paltani, J. Peachey, B. O'Neel, N. Produit, R. Rohlfs, A. Sauvageon,S. Shaw, M. Tiirler, and R. Walter
From INTEGRAL to Planckt Geneva's contribution to the LFI dataprocessing 440
M. Tiirler, R. Rohlfs, N. Morisset, M. T. Meharga, T. J.-L. Courvoisier,and R. Walter
Automated reduction and analysis of images from multiple data archives . 444
S. OTuairisg, R. Butler, A. Golden, A. Shearer, B. Voisin, and A. Micol
An IRAF-based data reduction and analysis pipeline for the xFOSC familyof instruments 448
R. Butler
MAXI Software System: Photon Event Database •, 452H. Negoro, M. Kohama, T. Mihara, N. Kuramata, H. Tomida, S. Ueno,H. Katayama, M. Matsuoka, Y. Serino, N. Kawai, T. Arakuni, andA. Yoshida
LTL - The Little Template Library 456C. A. Gossl, N. Drory, and J. Snigula
Extending ORAC-DR for Offline Processing of ESO, INGRID, and ClassicCam data 460
M. J. Currie
Modeling and Developing the Information System for the SuperAGILEExperiment 464
F. Lazzarotto, E. Costa, E. Del Monte, and M. Feroci
The AIPS++ Project 468J. P. McMullin, K. Golap, and S. T. Myers
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A Unified Domain Model for Astronomy 472G. Lemson, P. Dowler, and A. J. Banday
The NOAO Mosaic Pipeline Architecture 476F. Pierfederici, F. Valdes, C. Smith, R. Hiriart, and M. Miller
Part 5. Instrument ModelingInstrument Modelling in Observational Astronomy 481
P. Ballester and M. R. Rosa
Software Tools for 3D spectrography 491A. Pecontal-Rousset, R. Bacon, Y. Copin, E. Emsellem, P. Ferruit, andE. Pecontal
End to End Simulation of the JWST/NIRSpec Instrument 501X. Gnata, P. Ferruit, and A. Pecontal-Rousset
New User Requirements for Astronomical Data Visualization 505W. A. Joye and E. Mandel
Visualizing Data Cubes on the Grid 509G. Rixon, D. Barnes, B. Beeson, J. Yu, and P. Ortiz
Shadow Bands Observed During the Total Solar Eclipse of 4 December2002, by High-Resolution Imaging 513
S. Gladysz, M. Redfern, and B. W. Jones
E3D, The Euro3D Visualization Tool 517S. F. Sanchez
Part 6. Surveys, Archives &: VOA s t r o n o m i c a l D a t a S t o r a g e a n d D i s t r i b u t i o n i n t h e n e x t f i v e y e a r s . . . . 5 2 5
B. Pirenne
D a t a M o d e l s i n t h e V O : H o w D o T h e y M a k e C o d e B e t t e r ? . . . . . . . . 5 3 5
N. Gray, D. L. Giaretta, D. S. Berry, M. J. Currie, P. Draper,and M. Taylor
VO Access to Complex Data - MERLIN and Other InterferometryArchives 539
A. M. S. Richards, M. D. Allen, S. T. Garrington, P. A. Harrison, P. Lamb,T. W. B. Muxlow, R. Power, C. Reynolds, A. Stirling, P. Thomasson,T. Venturi, and N. Winstanley
Generalized Linear Multi-Frequency Imaging in VLBI 543S. Likhachev, V. Ladygin, and I. Guirin
Images analysis in Asteroid and Satellites Astrometry 547A. Lopez Garcia and J. A. Moraho
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Representations of distortions in FITS world coordinate systems 551M. R. Calabretta, F. Valdes, E. W. Greisen, and S. L. Allen
JPEG 2000 Compression for the Downlink and Archiving of AstronomicalData 554
J. C. Rountree, B. N. Webb, and M. W. Marcellin
Image Centering with a Maximum Likelihood Estimator: Application toInfrared Astronomical imaging 558
D. Gratadour, L. M. Mugnier, and D. Rouan
Refinements to the Iterative Self-Calibration Program for the SIRTFGOODS Legacy Project 562
D. Grumm and S. Casertano
Non-linear transient models and transient corrections methods for IR low-background photo-detectors 566
A. Coulais, J. Malaize, J.-F. Giovannelli, T. Rodet, A. Abergel, B. Wells,M. Patrashin, H. Kaneda, and B. Fouks
X C A T - D B a P u b l i c I n t e r f a c e f o r t h e S S C X M M - N e w t o n C a t a l o g u e . . . . 5 7 0
L. Michel, O. Herent, C. Motch, J. Pye, and M. G. Watson
ESA ISO and XMM-Newton ^rchives Inter-Operability and VO services . 574C. Arviset, P. Osuna, and J. Salgado
AstroCat/CVcat: A catalogue on Cataclysmic Variables based on a newframework for online interactive astronomical databases 578
F. Euchner, A. Pollmer, B. T. Gansicke, J. Kube, and K. Beuermann
Access to Databases of Atomic and Molecular Data in the VO 582M. L. Dubernet and B. Debray
Part 7. V O Resources IResource Registries for the Virtual Observatory 585
R. Plante, G. Greene, R. Hanisch, T. McGlynn, W. O'Mullane, andR. Williamson
Compare: A Scaleable and Portable Catalog Cross-Comparison Engine forthe NVO 589
S. Monkewitz and J. Good
Montage: A Grid Enabled Image Mosaic Service for the National VirtualObservatory 593
G. B. Berriman, J. C. Good, A. C. Laity, A. Bergou, J. Jacob, D. S. Katz,E. Deelman, C. Kesselman, G. Singh, M.-H. Su, and R. Williams
eSTAR: Astronomers, Agents and when Robotic Telescopes aren't 597A. Allan, T. Naylor, I. Steele, D. Carter, T. Jenness, F. Economou, andA. Adamson
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AstroGrid: Initial Deployment of the UK's Virtual Observatory 601JV. A. Walton, A. Lawrence, and T. Linde
The Chandra Bibliography Database 605A. H. Rots, S. L. Winkelman, S. Paltani, S. E. Blecksmith,and J. D. Bright
Automated Determination of Stellar Population Parameters in GalaxiesUsing Active Instance-based Learning 609
T. Solorio, O. Fuentes, R. Terlevich, E. Terlevich, and A. Bressan
Boxiness estimation method with fourth order moments 613M. Yagi
Advances in Automated Algorithms For Morphological Classification ofGalaxies Based on Shape Features 617
S. Goderya, J. D. Andreasen, and N. S. Philip
Genetic Programming and other fitting techniques in GalacticDynamics 621
P. J. Teuben
Automated Identification of Spectra in Schmidt Plates 625R. Diaz, J. Guichard, O. Cardona, and L. Altamirano
Determination of Initial Conditions of M81 Triplet Using EvolutionStrategies 629
J. C. Gomez, L. Athanassoula, O. Fuentes, and A. Bosnia
Age determination of the nuclear stellar population of Active GalacticNuclei using Locally Weighted Regression 633
T. Estrada-Piedra, J. P. Torres-Papaqui, R. Terlevich, O. Fuentes, andE. Terlevich
The CDS Hub 637F. Genova, M. G. Allen, T. Boch, F. Bonnarel, L. Cambresy, S.\Derriere,P. Dubois, P. Fernique, S. Lesteven, A. Oberto, F. Ochsenbein, 'A. PreiteMartinez, A. Schaaff, B. Vollmer, M. Wenger, M. Louys, E. Davoust, andG. Jasniewicz
Part 8. Large-Scale Data ManagementThe ALMA Software System 643
J. Schwarz, H. Sommer, and A. Farris
Gaia: understanding our galaxy 653X. Luri, S. Ansari, J. Torra, F. Figueras, C. Jordi, E. Masana, andP. Llimona
The VLT Data Flow System, a flexible science support operationsengine 661
K. Haggouchi, M. Peron, P. Ballester, K. Banse, T. Canavan, M. Chavan,D. Dorigo, C. Guirao, C. Izzo, Y. Jung, M. Kiesgen, J. Knudstrup,
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N. Kornweibel, T. Licha, L. K. Lundin, D. J. McKay, G. Mekiffer,A. Modigliani, R. M. Palsa, F. Ricciardi, C. Sabet, F. Sogni, A. Stansfield,J. Vinther, and S. Zampieri
ImgCutout, an Engine of Instantaneous Astronomical Discovery 666
M. A. Nieto-Santisteban, A. S. Szalay, and J. Gray
GAMMS: a Multigrid-AMR code for computing gravitational fields . . . 670
C. Gheller, F. Sartoretto, and M. Guidolin
Distributing Planck Simulations on a Grid Structure 674R. Smareglia, F. Pasian, C. Vuerli, and A. Zacchei
QLWFPC2: Parallel-Processing Quick-Look WFPC2 Stellar PhotometryBased on the Message Passing Interface 678
K. J. Mighell
Efficient usage of HPC horsepower for the LOFAR telescope 682Kjeld v.d. Schaaf
Part 9. Control SystemThe GBT Precision Telescope Control System 689
K. Constantikes
S o f t w a r e r e v e r s e e n g i n e e r i n g a n d d e v e l o p m e n t : t h e V S T T C S c a s e . . . . 6 9 7
P. Schipani, M. Brescia, D. Mancini, L. Marty, and G. Spirito
Using OpenOffice as a Portable Interface to JAVA-Based Applications . . 701T. Comeau, B. Garrett, J. Richon, and F. Romelfanger
An Overview of the Large Binocular Telescope Control System 704T. A. Axelrod and M. D. De La Pena
The CARMA Control System 708C. Gwon, A. D. Beard, P. Daniel, R. Hobbs, S. L. Scott, J. C. Kraybill,E. Leitch, D. M. Mehringer, R. Plante, N. S. Amarnath, M. W. Pound,K. P. Rauch, and P. J. Teuben \
The Development Process of the LUCIFER Control Software 712M. Jiitte, K. Polsterer, and M. Lehmitz
Survey Definition Tool 716M. Folger, M. M. Casali, and A. Vick
The CARMA Monitor System (CAM) - Transforming Cyclically CollectedTelemetry into a Linear Stream 720
N. S. Amarnath, S. L. Scott, J. C. Kraybill, A. D. Beard, P. Daniel,C. Gwon, R. Hobbs, E. Leitch, D. M. Mehringer, R. Plante, M. W. Pound,K. P. Rauch, and P. J. Teuben
The Engineering Measurement System:A Crucial Component of the Precision Telescope Control Systemat the Green Bank Telescope 724
P. Marganian, K. Constantikes, and R. Creager
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When the Observer isn't there: The OMP Feedback System 728K. K. Delorey, T. Jenness, B. Cavanagh, and F. Economou
The WFCAM instrument software 732A. Vick, M. Folger, S. McLay, and A. Pickup
NEWFIRM Software—System Integration Using OPC 736P. N. Daly
Software tools and preliminary design of a control system for the 40mOAN radiotelescope 740
P. de Vicente and R. Bolano
Web Services in Telescope Interoperability 744M. Verkkoniemi, J. W. Clasen, and P. M. S0rensen
Generic Abstraction of Hardware Control Based on the ALMA CommonSoftware 748
B. Jeram, G. Chiozzi, J. Ibsen, R. Cirami, M. Pokorny, D. Muders, andD. Wischolek
Part 10. Data Processing SystemsObserver versus software engineer: The dawn of the armchair
astronomers 755F. Economou, T. Jenness, K. K. Delorey, B. Cavanagh, S. de Witt, andA. Allan
The XMM-Newton SAS - Distributed Development and Maintenance of aLarge Science Analysis System: A Critical Analysis 759
C. Gabriel, M. Denby, D. J. Fyfe, J. Hoar, A. Ibarra, E. Ojero, J. Osborne,R. D. Saxton, U. Lammers, and G. Vacanti
VLT Instruments Pipeline System Overview 764Y. Jung, P. Ballester, K. Banse, W. Hummel, C: Izzo, D. J. McKayM. Kiesgen, L. K. Lundin, A. Modigliani, R. M. Palsa, and C. Sabet
The CARMA Software System 768S. L. Scott, N. S. Amarnath, A. D. Beard, P. Daniel, C. Gwon, R. Hobbs,J. C. Kraybill, E. Leitch, D. M. Mehringer, R. Plante, M. W. Pound,K. P. Rauch, and P. J. Teuben
New Simulation Software for VLBI Observations 772I. Guirin, S. Likhachev, and A. Chuprikov
Catch the Biggest Ones: Slitless Spectroscopy of Extragalactic Objects . 776V. F. Polcaro, R. F. Viotti, and S. Bernabei
Model Based Corrections to Data from Radiation Damaged Detectors. . . 780P. Bristow
SIRTF Tools for DIRT 784M. W. Pound, M. G. WolGre, and N. S. Amarnath
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Data Handling for P L A N C K / L F I Ground Tests 788M. Maris, S. Fogliani, N. Lama, F. Pasian, A. Zacchei, M. Bersanelli,D. Maino, P. Leutenegger, M. Miccolis, E. Franceschi, M. Malaspina,A. Mennella, and M. Salmon
Phasor Algorithms of the SIM Fringe Estimation 792X. Pan
Scheduler, a distributed batch controller 796D. Nguyen, R. Edgar, T. Gaetz, D. Jerius, and M. Tibbetts
Maintaining Software for Active Missions: a Case Study of Chandra's CTIProblem 800
J. S. Masters, H. He, W. McLaughlin, K. Glotfelty, and G. Allen
Chandra Long-Term Trending and Prognostication Tools 804B. D. Spitzbart and S. J. Wolk
Evaluation of Methods to Locate Emission Lines From Calibration Lampsin 2D Spectroscopic Data 808
A. Modigliani and M. R. Rosa
Efficient data mining in the X-ray sky background 812J. Cunniffe, E. J. A. Meurs, and A. Golden
Comparison of Echelle Spectra Reduction Packages 816P. Skoda and M. Slechta
The ATST Virtual Instrument Model 820S. Wampler and B. Goodrich
The HST BestRef System - Determining the proper calibration referencefiles for an HST exposure 824
M. S. Swam, S. Lubow, and L. Hurt
Demo of numarray, PyFITS, and related software \ 828J.-C. Hsu and P. E. Hodge
Starlink Software 832D. L. Giaretta, M. J. Currie, S. Rankin, P. Draper, D. S. Berry, N. Gray,and M. Taylor
Linux BoF 836A. J. Ferro
Author Index 837Subject Index 845