The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (Jan 2023)
A Data Science Platform to Enable Time-domain Astronomy
- Michael W. Coughlin,
- Joshua S. Bloom,
- Guy Nir,
- Sarah Antier,
- Theophile Jegou du Laz,
- Stéfan van der Walt,
- Arien Crellin-Quick,
- Thomas Culino,
- Dmitry A. Duev,
- Daniel A. Goldstein,
- Brian F. Healy,
- Viraj Karambelkar,
- Jada Lilleboe,
- Kyung Min Shin,
- Leo P. Singer,
- Tomás Ahumada,
- Shreya Anand,
- Eric C. Bellm,
- Richard Dekany,
- Matthew J. Graham,
- Mansi M. Kasliwal,
- Ivona Kostadinova,
- R. Weizmann Kiendrebeogo,
- Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,
- Sydney Jenkins,
- Natalie LeBaron,
- Ashish A. Mahabal,
- James D. Neill,
- B. Parazin,
- Julien Peloton,
- Daniel A. Perley,
- Reed Riddle,
- Ben Rusholme,
- Jakob van Santen,
- Jesper Sollerman,
- Robert Stein,
- D. Turpin,
- Avery Wold,
- Carla Amat,
- Adrien Bonnefon,
- Adrien Bonnefoy,
- Manon Flament,
- Frank Kerkow,
- Sulekha Kishore,
- Shloke Jani,
- Stephen K. Mahanty,
- Céline Liu,
- Laura Llinares,
- Jolyane Makarison,
- Alix Olliéric,
- Inès Perez,
- Lydie Pont,
- Vyom Sharma
Affiliations
- Michael W. Coughlin
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA ; [email protected]
- Joshua S. Bloom
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California , Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 50B-4206, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Guy Nir
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California , Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 50B-4206, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Sarah Antier
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- Artemis, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Université Côte d’Azur , Boulevard de l’Observatoire, F-06304 Nice, France
- Theophile Jegou du Laz
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Stéfan van der Walt
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- Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California Berkeley , Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Arien Crellin-Quick
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- Weights and Biases, Inc. , 1479 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 90063, USA
- Thomas Culino
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- ESILV - École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci , Paris, France
- Dmitry A. Duev
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- Weights and Biases, Inc. , 1479 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 90063, USA
- Daniel A. Goldstein
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- Weights and Biases, Inc. , 1479 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 90063, USA
- Brian F. Healy
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA ; [email protected]
- Viraj Karambelkar
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Jada Lilleboe
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA ; [email protected]
- Kyung Min Shin
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- EnergyHub, Inc. , 41 Flatbush Avenue, Suite 400A, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA
- Leo P. Singer
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- Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Tomás Ahumada
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Shreya Anand
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Eric C. Bellm
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- DIRAC Institute, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington , 3910 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Richard Dekany
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- Caltech Optical Observatories, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Matthew J. Graham
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Mansi M. Kasliwal
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Ivona Kostadinova
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- R. Weizmann Kiendrebeogo
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA ; [email protected]; Artemis, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Université Côte d’Azur , Boulevard de l’Observatoire, F-06304 Nice, France; Laboratoire de Physique et de Chimie de l’Environnement, Université Joseph KI-ZERBO , Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Shrinivas R. Kulkarni
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- Owens Valley Radio Observatory 249-17, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Sydney Jenkins
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Natalie LeBaron
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California , Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Ashish A. Mahabal
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Center for Data Driven Discovery, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- James D. Neill
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- B. Parazin
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA ; [email protected]; Northeastern University , Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Julien Peloton
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- IJCLab, Univ Paris-Saclay , CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
- Daniel A. Perley
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University , IC2, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
- Reed Riddle
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- Caltech Optical Observatories, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Ben Rusholme
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Jakob van Santen
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY , Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
- Jesper Sollerman
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University , AlbaNova, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden
- Robert Stein
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- D. Turpin
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité , CEA, CNRS, AIM, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Avery Wold
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Carla Amat
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- ESILV - École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci , Paris, France
- Adrien Bonnefon
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- ESILV - École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci , Paris, France
- Adrien Bonnefoy
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- ESILV - École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci , Paris, France
- Manon Flament
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- ESILV - École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci , Paris, France
- Frank Kerkow
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA ; [email protected]
- Sulekha Kishore
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Shloke Jani
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA ; [email protected]
- Stephen K. Mahanty
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA ; [email protected]
- Céline Liu
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- ESILV - École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci , Paris, France
- Laura Llinares
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- ESILV - École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci , Paris, France
- Jolyane Makarison
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- ESILV - École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci , Paris, France
- Alix Olliéric
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- ESILV - École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci , Paris, France
- Inès Perez
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- ESILV - École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci , Paris, France
- Lydie Pont
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- ESILV - École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci , Paris, France
- Vyom Sharma
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA ; [email protected]
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acdee1
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 267,
no. 2
p. 31
Abstract
SkyPortal is an open-source software package designed to discover interesting transients efficiently, manage follow-up, perform characterization, and visualize the results. By enabling fast access to archival and catalog data, crossmatching heterogeneous data streams, and the triggering and monitoring of on-demand observations for further characterization, a SkyPortal -based platform has been operating at scale for >2 yr for the Zwicky Transient Facility Phase II community, with hundreds of users, containing tens of millions of time-domain sources, interacting with dozens of telescopes, and enabling community reporting. While SkyPortal emphasizes rich user experiences across common front-end workflows, recognizing that scientific inquiry is increasingly performed programmatically, SkyPortal also surfaces an extensive and well-documented application programming interface system. From back-end and front-end software to data science analysis tools and visualization frameworks, the SkyPortal design emphasizes the reuse and leveraging of best-in-class approaches, with a strong extensibility ethos. For instance, SkyPortal now leverages ChatGPT large language models to generate and surface source-level human-readable summaries automatically. With the imminent restart of the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors, SkyPortal now also includes dedicated multimessenger features addressing the requirements of rapid multimessenger follow-up: multitelescope management, team/group organizing interfaces, and crossmatching of multimessenger data streams with time-domain optical surveys, with interfaces sufficiently intuitive for newcomers to the field. This paper focuses on the detailed implementations, capabilities, and early science results that establish SkyPortal as a community software package ready to take on the data science challenges and opportunities presented by this next chapter in the multimessenger era.
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