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GoogleSky

Alberto Conti
October 28, 2011

 GoogleSky

Presented at the Cosmo Club meeting of the Philosophy Society of Washington

Alberto Conti

October 28, 2011
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  1. Established in 1997 as NASA’s Optical and Ultraviolet Data Archive

    Supports Active missions: HST, GALEX, Kepler,... Legacy missions: IUE, FUSE, EUVE,... Optical & UV Data Archive
  2. The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) High Energy Astrophysics Science

    Archive Research Center (HEASARC) Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) & IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) Archive Centers Publications X-ray and Gamma Ray Infrared
  3. World-wide technical and scientific leadership in archive system design Secure

    storage and reliable retrieval services for data from HST and all MAST-supported missions User-friendly and scientifically useful search and cross-correlation tools Development and support for inter-archive communication and data transfer standards MAST
  4. Challenges for the Future Space is big! For one picture

    you need a 2 Trillion pixels camera! Monochrome : 4 Terabytes or 6% of the Library of Congress Color: 100 Terabytes or the 40% more than the entire Library of Congress Time: 10 Petabytes or 150 times the entire Library of Congress New analysis & visualization tools are required
  5. Astronomy is changing Growth over 25 years is a factor

    of 30 in glass, 3000 in pixels Detectors follow Moore’s Law Total data doubles every year
  6. 0 50 100 150 200 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

    2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Gbytes/Day Year Archive Use Ingest Rate: 15 TB/yr Retrieval Rate: 85 TB/yr Distributed Volume ~ 6X Ingest SM3B ACS, NCS ACS Failure SM4 WF3, COS, ACS, STIS
  7. Astronomy is special! No commercial value Ideal testbed for complex

    algorithms Interesting problems Plenty of data, plenty of dimensions!
  8. Adapt or Perish Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth have revolutionized

    the way we look at our planet. We proposed a new synergistic approach to the challenge of bringing the universe to our desktops: GoogleSky
  9. Dr Alberto Conti [email protected] Dr Carol Christian [email protected] Collaborator With

    thanks to Josh Perlow Tony Rogers Chris Hanley Ken Anderson Brian McLean