ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFICCONFERENCE SERIES

Volume 314

ASTRONOMICAL DATA ANALYSISSOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS XIII

Proceedings of a meeting held atStrasbourg, France12-15 October 2003

Edited by4

Francois OchsenbeinCDS, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France

Mark G. Allen

CDS, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France

and

Daniel EgretObservatoire de Paris, France

SAN FRANCISCO

Contents

Preface xixParticipant List xxiConference Photograph xxxix

Part 1. Surveys & Large-Scale Data ManagementThe ESO Imaging Survey Project: Building a Survey Software System . . 3

L. da Costa, C. Rite, and R. G. Slijkhuis

Palomar-QUEST: A case study in designing sky surveys in the VO era . . 14

M. J. Graham, R. Williams, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, C. Baltay,D. Rabinowitz, A. Bauer, J. Snyder, N. Morgan, P. Andrews, A. S. Szalay,R. J. Brunner, and J. Musser

The LOFAR Global Sky Model: Some Design Challenges 18

O. M. Smirnov and J. E. Noordam

Data Archive and Transfer System (DARTS) of ISAS 22T. Tamura, H. Baba, K. Matsuzaki, A. Miura, I. Shinohara, F. Nagase,M. Fukushi, and K. Uchida

User provided reduced data, catalogues and atlases in the ISO DataArchive 26

A. Salama, I. Ortiz, C. Arviset, J. Dowson, P. Garcia-Lario, C. Gry,J. Hernandez, R. Lorente, J. JMatagne, P. Osuna, J. Salgado, andE. Verdugo

On the Analysis of Old Objective-Prism Plate Spectra with ModernSystems 30

C. Rossi, V. F. Polcaro, R. F. Viotti, A. Filippi, S. Pedicelli, andA. Omizzolo

The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP): Optical Data Processingand Catalog Generation 34

R. A. Cameron, W. A. Barkhouse, P. J. Green, A. E. Mossman,J. D. Silverman, and B. J. Wilkes

Prom FITS to SQL - Loading and Publishing the SDSS Data . .\ 38A. Thakar, A. S. Szalay, and J. Gray

Adapting the BIMA Image Pipeline for Miriad Using Python 42

D. M. Mehringer and R. Plante

Searching for a cosmic string through the graviational lens effect: JapaneseVirtual Observatory science use case 46

Y. Shirasaki, Y. Mizumoto, M. Ohishi, N. Yasuda, M. Tanaka, S. Honda,H. Yahagi, M. Nagashima, G. Kosugi, N. Kashikawa, E. Matsuzaki,F. Kakimoto, and S. Ogio

Towards a Large Field of View Archive for the European VLBI Network . 50if. J. van Langevelde, F. M. Olnon, H. Verkouter, B. Kramer,M. A. Garrett, A. Szomoru, S. M. Parsley, and A. Bos

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The INTEGRAL Archive System 54M. T. Meharga, P. Binko, K. Pottschmidt, M. Beck, R. Walter, andT. McGlynn

C l u s t e r i n g t h e l a r g e V i z i e R c a t a l o g u e s , t h e C o C a t e x p e r i e n c e . . . . . . . 5 8

F. Ochsenbein, S. Derriere, S. Nicaisse, and A. Schaaff

HST/ACS Associations: the Next Step after WFPC2 62R. Hook, D. Durand, L. Simard, D. Schade, A. Koekemoer, M. Corbin, andA. Micol

Distributed Data Storage 66J. K. Withington

Increasing the Accessibility of Green Bank Telescope Data 70K. O'Neil, N. Radziwill, and R. Maddalena

The NOAO Pipeline Data Manager 74R. Hiriart, F. Valdes, F. Pierfederici, C. Smith, and M. Miller

The D4A Digitiser 77J.-P. De Cuyper, L. Winter, and J. Vanommeslaeghe

Transparent XML Binding using the ALMA Common Software (ACS)Container/Component Framework 81

H. Sommer, G. Chiozzi, D. Fugate, and M. Sekoranja

A L M A P r o p o s a l P r e p a r a t i o n : S u p p o r t i n g t h e N o v i c e a n d t h e E x p e r t . . . 8 5

A. Bridger, J. Schwarz, D. A. Clarke, A. M. Chavan, H. Sommer, andM. Schilling

The ALMA Prototype Science Pipeline 89L. E. Davis, B. E. Glendenning, and D. Tody

T h e A L M A A r c h i v e : A C e n t r a l i z e d S y s t e m f o r I n f o r m a t i o n S e r v i c e s . . . 9 3

A. Wicenec, S. Farrow, S. Gaudet, N. Hill, H. Meuss, and A. Stirling

Flexible Storage of Astronomical Data in the ALMA Archive' 97H. Meuss, A. Wicenec, and S. Farrow

ALMA On-Line Calibration Software 101D. Broguiere, F. Cosson, H. Hafok, R. Lucas, and J. Pardo

Part 2. Image RestorationWavelet-Based Superresolution in Astronomy 107

R. M. Willett, I. Jermyn, R. D. Nowak, and J. Zerubia

Scale sensitive deconvolution 117S. Bhatnagar and T. J. Cornwell

SAADA: An Automatic Archival System for Astronomical Data 121JV. H. Nguyen, L. Michel, and C. Motch

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Using a Reversed Exposure Time Calculator for Querying UncalibratedArchives 125

B. Voisin, A. Micol, S. OTuairisg, R. Butler, A. Golden, and A. Shearer

Adapting ISO and XMM-Newton Archives to Inter-Operability VOStandards . ' . ' . . " . 129

P. Osuna, C. Arviset, and J. Salgado

Chandra FITS Dictionary 133S. L. Winkelman, A. H. Rots, K. Michaud, and S. E. Blecksmith

The SuperCOSMOS Science Archive 137N. Hambly, M. Read, R. Mann, E. Sutorius, I. Bond, H. MacGillivray,P. Williams, and A. Lawrence

A Comparison of Large All-Sky Catalogs 141D. J. Mink, W. R. Brown, and M. J. Kurtz

High Availability Architecture for the Chandra Data Archive 145P. Zografou, P. Harbo, K. J. McCusker, J. Moran, A. Patz, P. Ramadurai,and D. Van Stone

A Domino-based Virtual Observatory Service for the HI Parkes All SkySurvey 149

D. G. Barnes and T. N. Stepborg

The Optical Monitoring Camera Data Server: Contents andFunctionalities 153

R. Gutierrez, E. Solano, A. Domingo, and J. Garcia

The Skysoft Project 157C. Baffa, E. Giani, and A. Checcucci

The Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-excess Galaxies (KUG) 161N. Miyauchi-Isobe, K. Nakajima, and H. Maehara

Korean Astronomical Data Center Prototype Release \ 165H.-i. Sung, S. C. Kim, I. S. Yim, H.-W. Nam, B. G. Kim, J. Kim, andD.-J. Lee

Data Fusion from Diverse Resources for Optical Identification of RadioSources 169

0. P. Zhelenkova and V. V. Vitkovskij

Merging data from a collection of Catalogues : . . . 173P. Ortiz

Open SkyQuery - VO Compliant Dynamic Federation of AstronomicalArchives 177

T. Budavari, A. S. Szalay, J. Gray, W. O'Mullane, R. Williams, A. Thakar,T. Malik, N. Yasuda, and R. Mann

Publishing Links to Astronomical Data On-line 181A. Accomazzi and G. Eichhorn

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Spectrum and Bandpass Services for the Virtual Observatory 185L. Dobos, T. Budavari, I. Csabai, and A. S. Szalay

Federating Datasets with Spatial Joins 189C. G. Page

ISDC's DAL and DAL3 libraries 193B. O'Neel, M. Beck, L. Lerusse, R. Walter, J. Peachey, D. Jennings, andS. Paltani

Review of the ASTROVIRTEL Experience at the end of its ThreeApproved Cycles 197

A. Micol, F. Pierfederici, and P. Benvenuti

Build Your Own SkyNode! 201N. Purger, T. Budavari, A. S. Szalay, A. Thakar, and I. Csabai

ATLAS - A General Search Service for Complex Data Collections 205A. Alexov and J. Good

WFPC2 Associations Pipeline: Publishing HST archives within VO . . . 209D. Durand, A. Micol, D. Schade, L. Simard, M. Corbin, R. Hook,A. Koekemoer, and M. Donahue

Access to Atomic and Molecular Data/Databases in the VO 213M. L. Dubernet, B. Debray A. Grosjean, M. Bruston, F. Combes,M. Cornille, D. Egret, C. Stehle, L. Tchang-Brillet, and C. Zeippen

BDB - a database for all types of double stars 217E. Oblak, B. Debray, and T. Kundera

New features for Aladin 2.0 221T. Boch, P. Fernique, and F. Bonnarel

PostgreSQL: the Suitable DBMS Solution for Astronomy andAstrophysics '•, 225

I. Chilingarian, O. Bartunov, J. Richter, and T. Sigaev

Electronic Journals as Databases 229A. Holl

Information System on Binary Stars 233O. Yu. Malkov, E. Yu. Kilpio, E. Snegireva, and M. Tuchin

Part 3. Algorithms & ClassificationPromises and Challenges in Automatic Pattern Recognition 239

T. K. Ho

Multi-Tree Methods for Statistics on Very Large Datasets in Astronomy . 249A. G. Gray, A. W. Moore, R. C. Nichol, A. J. Connolly, C. Genovese, andL. Wasserman

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Source Detection with Bayesian Inference on ROSAT All-Sky Survey DataSample 253

F. Guglielmetti, W. Voges, R. Fischer, G. Boese, and V. Dose

DRACO and the Italian Participation in Virtual Observatory Activities. . 257

F. Pasian and L. Benacchio

Organization of Data Sets in Virtual Observatories 261

M. G. Allen, F. Bonnarel, T. Boch, P. Fernique, and M. Louys

MMDSL: a Multi-Mission Data Server at LAEFF 265

E. Solano, R. Gutierrez, B. Montesinos, C. Morales, and J. Garcia

Spectral Data Models for the Virtual Observatory 269

J. C. McDowell, S. Lowe, M. Cresitello-Dittmar, J. DePonte Evans,I. Evans, A. H. Rots, and M. Harris

Resource Metadata for the Virtual Observatory 273R. Hanisch, G. Greene, A. Linde, R. Plante, A. M. S. Richards, E. Auden,K. T. Noddle, and W. O'Mullane

Designing a Data Model for the Virtual Observatory 277

M. Cresitello-Dittmar, J. DePonte Evans, I. Evans, M. Harris, S. Lowe,J. C. McDowell, and A. H. Rots

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Astronomical Catalogues - Simultaneous Querying and Matching 281

H.-M. Adorf, G. Lemson, W. Voges, H. Enke, and M. Steinmetz

Searchable Registry for the National Virtual Observatory 285

G. Greene, W. O'Mullane, R. Hanisch, and N. Gaffney

HTM2: Spatial Toolkit for the Virtual Observatory 289

G. Fekete, A. S. Szalay, and J. Gray

Astronomical Data Query Language: Simple Query Protocol for theVirtual Observatory \ . . . \ 293

N. Yasuda, Y. Mizumoto, M. Ohishi, W. O'Mullane, T. Budavari,V. Haridas, N. Li, T. Malik, A. S. Szalay, M. Hill, T. Linde, B. Mann, andC. G. Page

A Prototype toward Japanese Virtual Observatory (JVO) 296

M. Ohishi, Y. Mizumoto, N. Yasuda, Y. Shirasaki, M. Tanaka, S. Honda,Y. Masunaga, K. Miura, H. Monzen, K. Kawarai, Y. Ishihara,Y. Yamaguchi, and H. Yanaka

VO Enabled Mirage and the IVOA Client Package 300

S. Carliles, T. K. Ho, and W. O'Mullane

The AVO Prototype 304

P. J. Quinn, M. Allen, K. Andrews, T. Boch, F. Bonnarel, S. Derriere,M. Dolensky, P. Fernique, M. Hill, M. C. Leoni, A. Linde, A. Micol,B. Pirenne, A. M. S. Richards, A. Schaaff, G. Tissier, N. A. Walton, andA. Wicenec

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TWiki: A Collaboration Platform for VO Projects 307M. C. Leoni, M. Dolensky R. Bentley, T. Goodwin, and T. Linde

Virtual Solar Inc 311R.D. Bentley, F. Hill, and N. Hurlburt

UCD in the IVOA context 315S. Derriere, N. Gray, J. C. McDowell, R. Mann, F. Ochsenbein, P. Osuna,A. Preite Martinez, G. Rixon, and R. Williams

A Data Inventory Service for the Virtual Observatory 319T. McGlynn, J. Lee, R. Hanisch, G. Greene, and W. O'Mullane

Proposal for a Quantity-based Data Model in the Virtual Observatory . . 323B. Thomas and E. Shaya

Web Services and Related Works at CDS 327A. Schaaff

The AstroGrid MySpace System 330A. C. Davenhall, C. L. Qin, K. T. Noddle, and N. A. Walton

A Prototype Publishing Registry for the Virtual Observatory 334R. Williamson and R. Plante

Survey among Spectral Data Providers and Consumers 338M. Dolensky and D. Doug

Locating Virtual Observatory Resources With the Astrogrid Registry . . 342E. Auden, T. Linde, K. T. Noddle, A. M. S. Richards, and N. A. Walton

VOTable JAVA Streaming Writer and Applications 346P. Kulkarni, A. Kembhavi, and S. Kale

VOPlot: A Toolkit for Scientific Discovery using VOTables 350S. Kale, T. M. Vijayaraman, A. Kembhavi, P. R. Krishnan, A. Navelkar,H. Hegde, P. Kulkarni, and K. D. Balaji

Data Compression in Astronomy 354J. C. Rountree

Part 4. High Performance ComputingThe European Grid Infrastructure EGEE Project 357

F. Gagliardi

Hyperatlas: A New Framework for Image Federation 364R. Williams, S. G. Djorgovski, M. T. Feldmann, and J. Jacob

Atlasmaker: A Grid-based Implementation of the Hyperatlas 368R. Williams, S. G. Djorgovski, M. T. Feldmann, and J. Jacob

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Batch Query System with Interactive Local Storage for SDSS andtheVO 372

W. O'Mullane, J. Gray, N. Li, T. Budavari, M. A. Nieto-Santisteban, andA. S. Szalay

The HERSCHEL/PACS Common Software System as Data ReductionSystem 376

E. Wieprecht, J. BrumGt, J. Bakker, N. de Candussio, S. Guest,R. Huygen, A. de Jonge, J. J. Matthieu, S. Osterhage, S. Ott, H. Siddiqui,B. Vandenbussche, W. de Meester, M. Wetzstein, E. Wiezorrek,and P. Zaal

Data Reduction Software for the VLT Integral Field SpectrometerSPIFFI 380

J. Schreiber, N. Thatte, F. Eisenhauer, M. Tecza, R. Abuter, andM. Horrobin

The ROOT C++ Framework for Astronomy 384R. Rohlfs

Pre-processing the INTEGRAL telemetry 388N. Morisset, T. Contessi, M. T. Meharga, M. Beck, and R. Walter

The Common Pipeline Library - a silver bullet for standardisingpipelines? ." 392

K. Banse, P. Ballester, C. Izzo, Y. Jung, L. K. Lundin, D. J. McKay,A. Modigliani, R. M. Palsa, M. Kiesgen, and C. Sabet

Planck/LFI DPC Software Integration plan 396A. Zacchei, C. Vuerli, N. Lama, and F. Pasian

Grid Data Distribution strategy: Design and Implementation of a PipelineOriented Data Management System 400

N. Lama, C. Vuerli, R. Smareglia, F. Gasparo, M. Genghini, and F. Pasian

Extending Sherpa Data Analysis with S-Lang 404S. Doe, P. Freeman, R. Smith, D. Burke, and A. Siemiginowska

The SLANG/CIAO Synergy: Using S-Lang within CIAO 408G. Germain, R. Milaszewski, W. McLaughlin, and J. Miller

Developments in the Starlink AST Library - an Intelligent WCSManagement System 412

D. S. Berry

Interoperating GILDAS and MIRIAD 416J. Pety, F. Gueth, S. Guilloteau, R. Lucas, P. J. Teuben, andM. C. H. Wright

Chandra Level 3 Processing: Creating an Automated Source Catalog forChandra Data 420

R. Hain, A. Dobrzycki, I. Evans, J. DePonte Evans, P. Freeman,K. Glotfelty, M. Karovska, M. McCollough, F. Primini, and A. H. Rots

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Making FITS available on Dot Net and its applications 424V. Haridas, T. Budavari, W. O'Mullane, A. S. Szalay, A. Thakar,A. Conti, A. Volpicelli, and B. Pence

Preliminary design of the SCUBA-2 Data Reduction Pipeline 428

T. Jenness, F. Economou, D. Scott, B. D. Kelly, and W. S. Holland

The INTEGRAL Ground Segment 432R. Walter, A. Aubord, P. Bartholdi, M. Beck, V. Beckmann, P. Binko,J. Borkowski, M. Chernyakova, T. Contessi, T. J.-L. Courvoisier, P. Dubath,K. Ebisawa, P. Favre, M. Gaber, D. Gotz, T. Jaffe, D. Jennings,P. Kretschmar, D. Landriu, I. Lecoeur, L. Lerusse, T. Lock, M. Meharga,S. Mereghetti, N. Morisset, N. Mowlavi, S. Paltani, J. Peachey,K. Pottschmidt, B. O'Neel, N. Produit, R. Rohlfs, A. Sauvageon, S. Shaw,M. Tiirler, R. Diehl, A. Domingo, A. Goldwurm, L. Hansson, M. Schmidt,N.-J. Westergaard, and C. Winkler

Data Processing at the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre 436M. Beck, A. Aubord, P. Bartholdi, V. Beckmann, P. Binko, J. Borkowski,T. Contessi, T. Courvoisier, P. Dubath, K. Ebisawa, M. Gaber, D. Gotz,T. Jaffe, D. Jennings, P. Kretschmar, D. Landriu, I. Lecoeur, L. Lerusse,T. Lock, M. T. Meharga, S. Mereghetti, N. Morisset, N. Mowlavi,S. Paltani, J. Peachey, B. O'Neel, N. Produit, R. Rohlfs, A. Sauvageon,S. Shaw, M. Tiirler, and R. Walter

From INTEGRAL to Planckt Geneva's contribution to the LFI dataprocessing 440

M. Tiirler, R. Rohlfs, N. Morisset, M. T. Meharga, T. J.-L. Courvoisier,and R. Walter

Automated reduction and analysis of images from multiple data archives . 444

S. OTuairisg, R. Butler, A. Golden, A. Shearer, B. Voisin, and A. Micol

An IRAF-based data reduction and analysis pipeline for the xFOSC familyof instruments 448

R. Butler

MAXI Software System: Photon Event Database •, 452H. Negoro, M. Kohama, T. Mihara, N. Kuramata, H. Tomida, S. Ueno,H. Katayama, M. Matsuoka, Y. Serino, N. Kawai, T. Arakuni, andA. Yoshida

LTL - The Little Template Library 456C. A. Gossl, N. Drory, and J. Snigula

Extending ORAC-DR for Offline Processing of ESO, INGRID, and ClassicCam data 460

M. J. Currie

Modeling and Developing the Information System for the SuperAGILEExperiment 464

F. Lazzarotto, E. Costa, E. Del Monte, and M. Feroci

The AIPS++ Project 468J. P. McMullin, K. Golap, and S. T. Myers

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A Unified Domain Model for Astronomy 472G. Lemson, P. Dowler, and A. J. Banday

The NOAO Mosaic Pipeline Architecture 476F. Pierfederici, F. Valdes, C. Smith, R. Hiriart, and M. Miller

Part 5. Instrument ModelingInstrument Modelling in Observational Astronomy 481

P. Ballester and M. R. Rosa

Software Tools for 3D spectrography 491A. Pecontal-Rousset, R. Bacon, Y. Copin, E. Emsellem, P. Ferruit, andE. Pecontal

End to End Simulation of the JWST/NIRSpec Instrument 501X. Gnata, P. Ferruit, and A. Pecontal-Rousset

New User Requirements for Astronomical Data Visualization 505W. A. Joye and E. Mandel

Visualizing Data Cubes on the Grid 509G. Rixon, D. Barnes, B. Beeson, J. Yu, and P. Ortiz

Shadow Bands Observed During the Total Solar Eclipse of 4 December2002, by High-Resolution Imaging 513

S. Gladysz, M. Redfern, and B. W. Jones

E3D, The Euro3D Visualization Tool 517S. F. Sanchez

Part 6. Surveys, Archives &: VOA s t r o n o m i c a l D a t a S t o r a g e a n d D i s t r i b u t i o n i n t h e n e x t f i v e y e a r s . . . . 5 2 5

B. Pirenne

D a t a M o d e l s i n t h e V O : H o w D o T h e y M a k e C o d e B e t t e r ? . . . . . . . . 5 3 5

N. Gray, D. L. Giaretta, D. S. Berry, M. J. Currie, P. Draper,and M. Taylor

VO Access to Complex Data - MERLIN and Other InterferometryArchives 539

A. M. S. Richards, M. D. Allen, S. T. Garrington, P. A. Harrison, P. Lamb,T. W. B. Muxlow, R. Power, C. Reynolds, A. Stirling, P. Thomasson,T. Venturi, and N. Winstanley

Generalized Linear Multi-Frequency Imaging in VLBI 543S. Likhachev, V. Ladygin, and I. Guirin

Images analysis in Asteroid and Satellites Astrometry 547A. Lopez Garcia and J. A. Moraho

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Representations of distortions in FITS world coordinate systems 551M. R. Calabretta, F. Valdes, E. W. Greisen, and S. L. Allen

JPEG 2000 Compression for the Downlink and Archiving of AstronomicalData 554

J. C. Rountree, B. N. Webb, and M. W. Marcellin

Image Centering with a Maximum Likelihood Estimator: Application toInfrared Astronomical imaging 558

D. Gratadour, L. M. Mugnier, and D. Rouan

Refinements to the Iterative Self-Calibration Program for the SIRTFGOODS Legacy Project 562

D. Grumm and S. Casertano

Non-linear transient models and transient corrections methods for IR low-background photo-detectors 566

A. Coulais, J. Malaize, J.-F. Giovannelli, T. Rodet, A. Abergel, B. Wells,M. Patrashin, H. Kaneda, and B. Fouks

X C A T - D B a P u b l i c I n t e r f a c e f o r t h e S S C X M M - N e w t o n C a t a l o g u e . . . . 5 7 0

L. Michel, O. Herent, C. Motch, J. Pye, and M. G. Watson

ESA ISO and XMM-Newton ^rchives Inter-Operability and VO services . 574C. Arviset, P. Osuna, and J. Salgado

AstroCat/CVcat: A catalogue on Cataclysmic Variables based on a newframework for online interactive astronomical databases 578

F. Euchner, A. Pollmer, B. T. Gansicke, J. Kube, and K. Beuermann

Access to Databases of Atomic and Molecular Data in the VO 582M. L. Dubernet and B. Debray

Part 7. V O Resources IResource Registries for the Virtual Observatory 585

R. Plante, G. Greene, R. Hanisch, T. McGlynn, W. O'Mullane, andR. Williamson

Compare: A Scaleable and Portable Catalog Cross-Comparison Engine forthe NVO 589

S. Monkewitz and J. Good

Montage: A Grid Enabled Image Mosaic Service for the National VirtualObservatory 593

G. B. Berriman, J. C. Good, A. C. Laity, A. Bergou, J. Jacob, D. S. Katz,E. Deelman, C. Kesselman, G. Singh, M.-H. Su, and R. Williams

eSTAR: Astronomers, Agents and when Robotic Telescopes aren't 597A. Allan, T. Naylor, I. Steele, D. Carter, T. Jenness, F. Economou, andA. Adamson

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AstroGrid: Initial Deployment of the UK's Virtual Observatory 601JV. A. Walton, A. Lawrence, and T. Linde

The Chandra Bibliography Database 605A. H. Rots, S. L. Winkelman, S. Paltani, S. E. Blecksmith,and J. D. Bright

Automated Determination of Stellar Population Parameters in GalaxiesUsing Active Instance-based Learning 609

T. Solorio, O. Fuentes, R. Terlevich, E. Terlevich, and A. Bressan

Boxiness estimation method with fourth order moments 613M. Yagi

Advances in Automated Algorithms For Morphological Classification ofGalaxies Based on Shape Features 617

S. Goderya, J. D. Andreasen, and N. S. Philip

Genetic Programming and other fitting techniques in GalacticDynamics 621

P. J. Teuben

Automated Identification of Spectra in Schmidt Plates 625R. Diaz, J. Guichard, O. Cardona, and L. Altamirano

Determination of Initial Conditions of M81 Triplet Using EvolutionStrategies 629

J. C. Gomez, L. Athanassoula, O. Fuentes, and A. Bosnia

Age determination of the nuclear stellar population of Active GalacticNuclei using Locally Weighted Regression 633

T. Estrada-Piedra, J. P. Torres-Papaqui, R. Terlevich, O. Fuentes, andE. Terlevich

The CDS Hub 637F. Genova, M. G. Allen, T. Boch, F. Bonnarel, L. Cambresy, S.\Derriere,P. Dubois, P. Fernique, S. Lesteven, A. Oberto, F. Ochsenbein, 'A. PreiteMartinez, A. Schaaff, B. Vollmer, M. Wenger, M. Louys, E. Davoust, andG. Jasniewicz

Part 8. Large-Scale Data ManagementThe ALMA Software System 643

J. Schwarz, H. Sommer, and A. Farris

Gaia: understanding our galaxy 653X. Luri, S. Ansari, J. Torra, F. Figueras, C. Jordi, E. Masana, andP. Llimona

The VLT Data Flow System, a flexible science support operationsengine 661

K. Haggouchi, M. Peron, P. Ballester, K. Banse, T. Canavan, M. Chavan,D. Dorigo, C. Guirao, C. Izzo, Y. Jung, M. Kiesgen, J. Knudstrup,

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N. Kornweibel, T. Licha, L. K. Lundin, D. J. McKay, G. Mekiffer,A. Modigliani, R. M. Palsa, F. Ricciardi, C. Sabet, F. Sogni, A. Stansfield,J. Vinther, and S. Zampieri

ImgCutout, an Engine of Instantaneous Astronomical Discovery 666

M. A. Nieto-Santisteban, A. S. Szalay, and J. Gray

GAMMS: a Multigrid-AMR code for computing gravitational fields . . . 670

C. Gheller, F. Sartoretto, and M. Guidolin

Distributing Planck Simulations on a Grid Structure 674R. Smareglia, F. Pasian, C. Vuerli, and A. Zacchei

QLWFPC2: Parallel-Processing Quick-Look WFPC2 Stellar PhotometryBased on the Message Passing Interface 678

K. J. Mighell

Efficient usage of HPC horsepower for the LOFAR telescope 682Kjeld v.d. Schaaf

Part 9. Control SystemThe GBT Precision Telescope Control System 689

K. Constantikes

S o f t w a r e r e v e r s e e n g i n e e r i n g a n d d e v e l o p m e n t : t h e V S T T C S c a s e . . . . 6 9 7

P. Schipani, M. Brescia, D. Mancini, L. Marty, and G. Spirito

Using OpenOffice as a Portable Interface to JAVA-Based Applications . . 701T. Comeau, B. Garrett, J. Richon, and F. Romelfanger

An Overview of the Large Binocular Telescope Control System 704T. A. Axelrod and M. D. De La Pena

The CARMA Control System 708C. Gwon, A. D. Beard, P. Daniel, R. Hobbs, S. L. Scott, J. C. Kraybill,E. Leitch, D. M. Mehringer, R. Plante, N. S. Amarnath, M. W. Pound,K. P. Rauch, and P. J. Teuben \

The Development Process of the LUCIFER Control Software 712M. Jiitte, K. Polsterer, and M. Lehmitz

Survey Definition Tool 716M. Folger, M. M. Casali, and A. Vick

The CARMA Monitor System (CAM) - Transforming Cyclically CollectedTelemetry into a Linear Stream 720

N. S. Amarnath, S. L. Scott, J. C. Kraybill, A. D. Beard, P. Daniel,C. Gwon, R. Hobbs, E. Leitch, D. M. Mehringer, R. Plante, M. W. Pound,K. P. Rauch, and P. J. Teuben

The Engineering Measurement System:A Crucial Component of the Precision Telescope Control Systemat the Green Bank Telescope 724

P. Marganian, K. Constantikes, and R. Creager

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When the Observer isn't there: The OMP Feedback System 728K. K. Delorey, T. Jenness, B. Cavanagh, and F. Economou

The WFCAM instrument software 732A. Vick, M. Folger, S. McLay, and A. Pickup

NEWFIRM Software—System Integration Using OPC 736P. N. Daly

Software tools and preliminary design of a control system for the 40mOAN radiotelescope 740

P. de Vicente and R. Bolano

Web Services in Telescope Interoperability 744M. Verkkoniemi, J. W. Clasen, and P. M. S0rensen

Generic Abstraction of Hardware Control Based on the ALMA CommonSoftware 748

B. Jeram, G. Chiozzi, J. Ibsen, R. Cirami, M. Pokorny, D. Muders, andD. Wischolek

Part 10. Data Processing SystemsObserver versus software engineer: The dawn of the armchair

astronomers 755F. Economou, T. Jenness, K. K. Delorey, B. Cavanagh, S. de Witt, andA. Allan

The XMM-Newton SAS - Distributed Development and Maintenance of aLarge Science Analysis System: A Critical Analysis 759

C. Gabriel, M. Denby, D. J. Fyfe, J. Hoar, A. Ibarra, E. Ojero, J. Osborne,R. D. Saxton, U. Lammers, and G. Vacanti

VLT Instruments Pipeline System Overview 764Y. Jung, P. Ballester, K. Banse, W. Hummel, C: Izzo, D. J. McKayM. Kiesgen, L. K. Lundin, A. Modigliani, R. M. Palsa, and C. Sabet

The CARMA Software System 768S. L. Scott, N. S. Amarnath, A. D. Beard, P. Daniel, C. Gwon, R. Hobbs,J. C. Kraybill, E. Leitch, D. M. Mehringer, R. Plante, M. W. Pound,K. P. Rauch, and P. J. Teuben

New Simulation Software for VLBI Observations 772I. Guirin, S. Likhachev, and A. Chuprikov

Catch the Biggest Ones: Slitless Spectroscopy of Extragalactic Objects . 776V. F. Polcaro, R. F. Viotti, and S. Bernabei

Model Based Corrections to Data from Radiation Damaged Detectors. . . 780P. Bristow

SIRTF Tools for DIRT 784M. W. Pound, M. G. WolGre, and N. S. Amarnath

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Data Handling for P L A N C K / L F I Ground Tests 788M. Maris, S. Fogliani, N. Lama, F. Pasian, A. Zacchei, M. Bersanelli,D. Maino, P. Leutenegger, M. Miccolis, E. Franceschi, M. Malaspina,A. Mennella, and M. Salmon

Phasor Algorithms of the SIM Fringe Estimation 792X. Pan

Scheduler, a distributed batch controller 796D. Nguyen, R. Edgar, T. Gaetz, D. Jerius, and M. Tibbetts

Maintaining Software for Active Missions: a Case Study of Chandra's CTIProblem 800

J. S. Masters, H. He, W. McLaughlin, K. Glotfelty, and G. Allen

Chandra Long-Term Trending and Prognostication Tools 804B. D. Spitzbart and S. J. Wolk

Evaluation of Methods to Locate Emission Lines From Calibration Lampsin 2D Spectroscopic Data 808

A. Modigliani and M. R. Rosa

Efficient data mining in the X-ray sky background 812J. Cunniffe, E. J. A. Meurs, and A. Golden

Comparison of Echelle Spectra Reduction Packages 816P. Skoda and M. Slechta

The ATST Virtual Instrument Model 820S. Wampler and B. Goodrich

The HST BestRef System - Determining the proper calibration referencefiles for an HST exposure 824

M. S. Swam, S. Lubow, and L. Hurt

Demo of numarray, PyFITS, and related software \ 828J.-C. Hsu and P. E. Hodge

Starlink Software 832D. L. Giaretta, M. J. Currie, S. Rankin, P. Draper, D. S. Berry, N. Gray,and M. Taylor

Linux BoF 836A. J. Ferro

Author Index 837Subject Index 845