Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: ESASky is a science-driven discovery portal to explore the multi-wavelength sky and visualize and access multiple astronomical archive holdings. The tool is a web application that requires no prior knowledge of any of the missions involved and gives users world-wide simplified access to the highest-level science data products from multiple astronomical space-based astronomy missions plus a number of ESA source catalogs. The first public release of ESASky features interfaces for the visualization of the sky in multiple wavelengths, the visualization of query results summaries, and the visualization of observations and catalog sources for single and multiple targets. This paper describes these features within ESASky, developed to address use cases from the scientific community. The decisions regarding the visualization of large amounts of data and the technologies used were made to maximize the responsiveness of the application and to keep the tool as useful and intuitive as possible.
Authors: Deborah Baines, Fabrizio Giordano, Elena Racero, Jesús Salgado, Belén López Martí, Bruno Merín, María-Henar Sarmiento, Raúl Gutiérrez, Iñaki Ortiz de Landaluce, Ignacio León, Pilar de Teodoro, Juan González, Sara Nieto, Juan Carlos Segovia, Andy Pollock, Michael Rosa, Christophe Arviset, Daniel Lennon, William O’Mullane, Guido de Marchi
Language: English
Subfield: Instrumentation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2560876164