ViaLactea: a distributed visual analytic system for exploring our galactic ecosystem

Giuseppe Tudisco, Fabio Vitello, Eva Sciacca, Simone Riggi, Sergio Molinari, Evgeniya Evgenevna Malikova, Mel Krokos

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    Abstract

    Space missions and ground-based facilities collect increasingly large amounts of data that demand novel approaches to data processing, storage, visualization and analysis. Next-generation facilities, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), are going to increase the volume of data at a rate higher than the ability to analyze them. Thus, new approaches combining visualization and data processing are necessary to enable astronomers to analyze their data and extract meaningful information. We present ViaLactea, an ecosystem that offers the Astrophysics and Planetary communities highly interactive visual analytic interfaces enabling effective exploitation of multi-wavelength observations of the Milky Way Galactic Plane, ranging from the nearinfrared to the radio spectrum. We showcase a desktop application, and further present interfaces that include collaborative web solutions for multi-user support underpinned by efficient remote server CPU and GPU rendering. ViaLactea strongly promotes FAIR data and Open Science practices and is integrated within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationADASS XXXI: Proceedings of the 31st annual conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 2021
    PublisherAstronomical Society of the Pacific
    Publication statusAccepted for publication - 17 Oct 2021
    EventADASS XXXI: 31st annual conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems, 2021 - The Westin Hotel and Online, Cape Town, South Africa
    Duration: 24 Oct 202128 Oct 2021

    Conference

    ConferenceADASS XXXI: 31st annual conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems, 2021
    Country/TerritorySouth Africa
    CityCape Town
    Period24/10/2128/10/21

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