Data Analysis in Astronomy IV

✍ Scribed by Frank Giovane (auth.), V. Di Gesù, L. Scarsi, R. Buccheri, P. Crane, M. C. Maccarone, H. U. Zimmermann (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 355
• Series: Ettore Majorana International Science Series 59
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book are reported the main results presented at the "Fourth International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy", held at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, Italy, on April 12-19, 1991. The Workshop was preceded by three workshops on the same subject held in Erice in 1984, 1986 and 1988. The frrst workshop (Erice 1984) was dominated by presentations of "Systems for Data Analysis"; the main systems proposed were MIDAS, AlPS, RIAIP, and SAIA. Methodologies and image analysis topics were also presented with the emphasis on cluster analysis, multivariate analysis, bootstrap methods, time analysis, periodicity, 2D photometry, spectrometry, and data compression. A general presentation on "Parallel Processing" was made which encompassed new architectures, data structures and languages. The second workshop (Erice 1986) reviewed the "Data Handling Systems" planned for large major satellites and ground experiments (VLA, HST, ROSAT, COMPASS-COMPTEL). Data analysis methods applied to physical interpretation were mainly considered (cluster photometry, astronomical optical data compression, cluster analysis for pulsar light curves, coded aperture imaging). New parallel and vectorial machines were presented (cellular machines, PAPIA-machine, MPP-machine, vector computers in astronomy). Contributions in the field of artificial intelligence and planned applications to astronomy were also considered (expert systems, artificial intelligence in computer vision).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Astrophysics Data System....Pages 3-10
MIDAS on-Line at the Telescope....Pages 11-19
Astronomical Databases: A User Approach....Pages 21-28
ESIS: Science Information Retrieval....Pages 29-37
Markov Random Field Applications in Image Analysis....Pages 39-50
SAST - A Software Package for the Statistical Analysis of Sparse Times....Pages 51-57
XRONOS: A Timing Analysis Software Package....Pages 59-64
An Automatic Spectrophotometric Data Reduction System for Quantitative Spectral Classification of Stars....Pages 65-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
The Hubble Space Telescope: Year One....Pages 75-81
HST Image Restoration - Status and Prospects....Pages 83-96
STSDAS: The Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System....Pages 97-101
Detecting Cosmic Ray Hits on HST WF/PC Images Using Neural Networks and Other Discriminant Analysis Approaches....Pages 103-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
The ROSAT Mission....Pages 115-119
Mission Planning with ROSAT....Pages 121-129
The ROSAT Data Archive and other Project Applications of a DBMS....Pages 131-139
Interactive Analysis with EXSAS....Pages 141-144
PROS: Data Analysis for ROSAT....Pages 145-152
The Standard Automatic Analysis Software System (SASS)....Pages 153-159
The XUV Wide Field Camera On-Board ROSAT: Ground System and Data Processing....Pages 161-170
An XUV Survey with the Wide Field Camera on ROSAT....Pages 171-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
The GRO - COMPTEL Mission: Instrument Description and Scientific Objectives....Pages 185-200
Response Determinations of COMPTEL from Calibration Measurements, Models, and Simulations....Pages 201-216
COMPTEL Processing and Analysis Software System: COMPASS (Requirements and Overview)....Pages 217-227
Pulsar Analysis within COMPASS....Pages 229-239
Maximum Likelihood Method Applied to COMPTEL Source Recognition and Analysis....Pages 241-249
Maximum Entropy Imaging and Spectral Deconvolution for COMPTEL....Pages 251-260
COMPTEL as a Solar Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector....Pages 261-270
Neural Net Approaches for Event Location in the Detector Modules....Pages 271-282
The OSSE Data Analysis System....Pages 283-294
IGORE: Interactive GRO/OSSE Reduction Environment....Pages 295-302
The Egret High Energy Gamma Ray Telescope on GRO: Instrument Description and Scientific Mission....Pages 303-310
The Egret High Energy Gamma Ray Telescope on GRO: Data Analysis System at MPE....Pages 311-318
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Misssion: Software Development....Pages 321-328
The JET-X Experiment on-Board SPECTRUM-XГ Mission....Pages 329-334
The SAX Mission....Pages 335-348
SAX Mission Ground Support System....Pages 349-360
Back Matter....Pages 361-364

✦ Subjects

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques;Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory