Publications of the RAI Group

BIMA Data Reduction Tools in AIPS++ (Slides )

Overview of current BIMA specific tools in AIPS++ at the time of the ADASS XI conference (September 2001).

The Networked Telescope: Progress toward a Grid Architecture for Pipeline Processing (Slides gzipped, tarred PostScript files)

A description of the software tool used to download data from the BIMA Data Archive, presented at Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems X and published in the proceedings.

DaRT: A Java Tool for Retrieving Archived Telescope Data (Gzipped PostScript; PostScript, 75 kB;

A description of the software tool used to download data from the BIMA Data Archive, presented at Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems X and published in the proceedings.

The ADASS VIII Proceedings: a Case Study in Editing for the Electronic Age (Gzipped PostScript; PostScript, 91 kB)

The making of the ADASS VIII proceedings, presented at Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems X and published in the proceedings, 2000.

The NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library: From Data Archiving to Data Publishing (PostScript, 5.4 MB; Gzipped PostScript, 323 kB; PDF, no figures, 223 kB)

An article to appear in the summer 1999 issue of Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) that describes the ADIL in the context of the Networked Instrument.

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VIII; edited by D. Mehringer, R. Plante, D. Roberts.

The proceedings volume for the annual conference published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999. ADASS VII was hosted by NCSA at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Nov. 1998.

Status and Future Plans for the Parallelization of AIPS++ (PostScript, 1.6 MB; Gzipped PostScript, 206 kB)

An article describing the status of the AIPS++ parallelization project presented at the ADASS'98 meeting.

Demonstration of Parallel AIPS++ Deconvolution (PostScript, 230 kB)

A report of a parallel AIPS++ deconvolution application which was demonstrated at the ADASS'98 meeting.

Converging Horizons: Collaborative 2/3D Visualization Tools for Astronomy (PostScript, 4.4 MB; Gzipped PostScript, 138 kB)

A description of Java-based visualization tools for collaborative research which integrate a number of diverse technologies currently under development at NCSA presented at the ADASS'98 meeting.

The NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library: The Challenges of the Scientific Data Library

A description of the ADIL as a case study for a scientific digital library published in the electronic magazine, D-Lib, October 1997.

BIMA Data Archive: the Architecture and Implementation of a Real-Time Telescope Archiving System (PostScript, 390 kB)

A technical description of the BIMA Data Archive published in Telescope Control Systems II (SPIE), September 1997.

IMAGER: A Parallel Interface to Spectral Line Processing (PostScript, 72.8 kB)

A report prepared for the ADASS'96 meeting describing the IMAGER system for processing radio astronomy spectral line data on parallel machines.

Java, Image Browsing, and the NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library(PostScript, 1.39 MB)

A report prepared for the ADASS'96 meeting describing efforts under way to develop Horizon Image Browser package, a generalized Java package for browsing and visualizing scientific data.

Radio Synthesis Imaging -- A Grand Challenge HPCC Project (PostScript, 23 MB; Gzipped PostScript, 3.5 MB)

A report prepared for the International Journal for Supercomputing Applications that gives an overview of the goals and accomplishments of the RAI HPCC project and describes the demonstration given at the Supercomputing'95 conference.

The AIPSview Astronomy Visualization Tools (PostScript,3.5 MB; Gzipped PostScript, 476 kB)

A report prepared for the ADASS'95 meeting announcing the release of AIPSview with an overview of its major features.

The NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library (PostScript, 67 kB)

A report prepared for the ADASS'95 meeting announcing the opening of the Library with an overview of its major features.