About SkyQuery

Personnel

• László Dobos¹, system architecture, software development, concept
• Tamás Budavári², spatial library, cross-match algorithm, concept
• Alex Szalay^3,4, concept
• Evelin Bányai¹, database developer
• Lance Joseph³, system administrator
• Victor Paul³, database administrator
• Nolan Li, concept

1. Department of Physics of Complex System, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
2. Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
3. Institute of Data Intensive Science and Engineering (IDIES), The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
4. Department of Physics & Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

References

If you use SkyQuery for your research, please reference us by citing one the following papers.

• Tamás Budavári; László Dobos; Alexander S. Szalay: "SkyQuery: Federating Astronomy Archives" in Computing in Science & Engineering (Volume: 15, Issue: 3, May-June 2013)
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• Budavári, Tamás; Szalay, Alexander S.: "Probabilistic Cross-Identification of Astronomical Sources" in The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 679, Issue 1, article id. 301-309, pp. (2008).
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• Budavári, Tamás; Szalay, Alexander S.; Fekete, György: "Searchable Sky Coverage of Astronomical Observations: Footprints and Exposures" in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Pacific, Volume 122, Issue 897, pp. 1375-1388 (2010).
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• Dobos, László; Budavári, Tamás; Li, Nolan; Szalay, Alexander S.; Csabai, István: "SkyQuery: An Implementation of a Parallel Probabilistic Join Engine for Cross-Identification of Multiple Astronomical Databases" in Processings of SSDBM 2012: Scientific and Statistical Database Management pp 159-167, Volume 7338 of the book series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) - (2012).
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• Dobos, László; Szalay, Alexander S.; Budavári, Tamás; Csabai, István; Li, Nolan: "Graywulf: A platform for federated scientific databases and services" in SSDBM Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management Article No. 30 (2013)
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Copyright info

• Graywulf: (c) 2016 László Dobos, IDIES, The Johns Hopkins University, Eötvös University

Open-source components used

• CodeMirror: (c) Marijn Haverbeke / codemirror.net
• SyntaxHighlighter: (c) Alex Gorbachev / http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/
• JQuery: (c) The jQuery Foundation / jquery.com
• Bootstrap: (c) 2011-2016 the Bootstrap Authors and Twitter, Inc. / getbootstrap.com
• Icons: (cc) oxygen-icons / IconArchive

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