Abstract The Promoting Radio Astronomy in Ghana through School visits and Clubs (PRAGSAC) project was an intervention to promote astronomy education schools Ghana. It initiated by a group of enthusiastic students who were trained radio astrophysics under Royal Society/Newton Fund UK termed Development Africa with Astronomy. team’s aim is expose school children increase their interest the scienc...

Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218. Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 475 N. Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706. Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, NJ 08544. Current address: Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50125 Florence, Ital...

An enigmatic prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity are gravitational waves. With the observed decay in the orbit of the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar agreeing within a fraction of a percent with the theoretically computed decay from Einstein’s theory the existence of gravitational waves was firmly established. Currently there is a worldwide effort to detect gravitational waves with...

Several different controlled vocabularies have been developed and used by the astronomical community, each designed to serve a specific need and a specific group. The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) attempts to provide a highly structured controlled vocabulary that will be relevant and useful across the entire discipline, regardless of content or platform. As two major use cases for the UAT i...

Astronomy is entering a new era of discovery, coincident with the establishment of new facilities for observation and simulation that will routinely generate petabytes of data. While an increasing reliance on automated data analysis is anticipated, a critical role will remain for visualization-based knowledge discovery. We have investigated scientific visualization applications in astronomy thr...

Abstract We present a scalable, cloud-based science platform solution designed to enable next-to-the-data analyses of terabyte-scale astronomical tabular data sets. The presented is built on Amazon Web Services (over Kubernetes and S3 abstraction layers), utilizes Apache Spark the Astronomy eXtensions for parallel analysis manipulation, provides familiar JupyterHub web-accessible front end user...

He Gao,* Bing Zhang, Xue-Feng Wu, and Zi-Gao Dai Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154, USA Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and Department of Astronomy, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University, Nanj...

Lucianne M. Walkowicz, Department of Astronomy, University of California Berkeley Andrew A. West, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Gibor Basri, Department of Astronomy, University of California Berkeley Matthew K. Browning, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Adam F. Kowalski, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington Eric Hilton, Department of Astrono...

Introduction This poster presents and characterises our work on accelerating a software radio astronomy correlator using reconfigurable computing (RC) hardware. Radio astronomy correlation is an embarrassingly parallel signal processing application, which is used heavily in radio astronomy for imaging and other astronomical measurements. Radio astronomy correlators typically operate on huge dat...