Data analysis in astronomy

Author(s)

• International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy
• Di Gesù, V.

Bibliographic Information

Data analysis in astronomy

edited by V. Di Gesù ... [et al.]

（Ettore Majorana international science series, . Physical sciences ; v. 24）

Plenum Press, c1985

Note

"Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy, held May 28-June 4, 1984, in Erice, Sicily, Italy"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Data Analysis Methodologies.- The Data Analysis Facilities That Astronomers Want.- Time Analysis in Astronomy: Tools for Periodicity Searches.- Cluster Analysis by Mixture Identification.- Graphical Methods of Exploratory Data Analysis.- Faint Objects in Crowded Fields: Discrimination and and Counting.- Multivariate Statistics to Analyze Extraterrestial Particles from the Ocean Floor.- Statistical Analysis of Pulse Processes.- Application of Bootstrap Sampling in Gamma-ray Astronomy: Time Variability in Pulsed Emission from Crab Pulsar.- Binary Slice Fit Ellipticity Analysis.- An Automated Method for Velocity Field Analysis.- The Star Observation Strategy for HIPPARCOS.- Panel discussion on: Data Analysis Trends in X-ray and y-ray Astronomy.- Panel discussion on: Trends in Optical and Radio Data Analysis.- Systems for Data Analysis.- to Data Analysis Systems for Astronomy.- FIPS: Objectives and Achievements.- MIDAS.- Space Telescope Science Data Analysis.- NRAO’s Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS).- Astronet.- The CDCA Package: Past, Present and Future.- Design of a Pattern-Directed System for the Interpretation of Digitized Astronomical Images.- An Astronomical Data Analyzing Monitor.- RIAIP — A System for Interacting with Astronomical Images.- Experience Report on the Transportation of Software Systems in Connection with the Creation of MOTHER, the VAX/VMS version of the Groningen HERMES.- SAIA: A System for Astronomical Image Analysis.- A System for Deep Plate Analysis: An Overview.- The Groningen Image Processing System.- Panel discussion on Systems for Data Analysis: What They Are, What They Should be?.- Image Processing.- Astronomical Input to Image Processing, Astronomical Output from Image Processing.- Review Methodologies in Digital ImageProcessing.- 2-D Photometry.- Spectrometry.- Time Dependent Analysi s.- Morphological Analysis of Extended Objects.- Solar Image Processing With the Clark Lake Radioheliograph.- Display of Three-dimensional Data in Radioastronomy.- Data Compression Techniques in Image Processing for Astronomy..- Fast Digital Image Processing Algorithms and Techniques for Object Recognition and Decomposition.- Automatic Analysis of Crowded Fields.- DWARF: The Dwingeloo-Westerbork Astronomical Reduction Facility.- Parallel Processing.- Steps Toward Parallel Processing.- New Architectures for Image Processing.- Data Structures and Languages in Support of Parallel Image Processing for Astronomy.- Morphology and Probability in Image Processing.- Trend in Parallel Processing Applications.- Concluding Discussion.- Panel discussion on How Can Computer Science Contribute to the Solution of Problems Posed by Astronomers.

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Details

• NCID: BA01289964
• ISBN:
  • 030642018X
• LCCN: 85009436
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 541 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QB51.3.E43
  • DC19 : 520/.28/5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Astronomy -- Data processing -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00044600