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Coughlin, Michael W.; Bloom, Joshua S.; Nir, Guy; Antier, Sarah; du Laz, Theophile Jegou; van der Walt, Stéfan; Crellin-Quick, Arien; Culino, Thomas; Duev, Dmitry A.; Goldstein, Daniel A.; Healy, Brian F.; Karambelkar, Viraj; Lilleboe, Jada; Shin, Kyung Min; Singer, Leo P.; Ahumada, Tomás; Anand, Shreya; Bellm, Eric C.; Dekany, Richard; Graham, Matthew J.; Kasliwal, Mansi M.; Kostadinova, Ivona; Kiendrebeogo, R. Weizmann; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.; [...]

A Data Science Platform to Enable Time-domain Astronomy

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: A Data Science Platform to Enable Time-domain Astronomy
  • Contributor: Coughlin, Michael W.; Bloom, Joshua S.; Nir, Guy; Antier, Sarah; du Laz, Theophile Jegou; van der Walt, Stéfan; Crellin-Quick, Arien; Culino, Thomas; Duev, Dmitry A.; Goldstein, Daniel A.; Healy, Brian F.; Karambelkar, Viraj; Lilleboe, Jada; Shin, Kyung Min; Singer, Leo P.; Ahumada, Tomás; Anand, Shreya; Bellm, Eric C.; Dekany, Richard; Graham, Matthew J.; Kasliwal, Mansi M.; Kostadinova, Ivona; Kiendrebeogo, R. Weizmann; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.; [...]
  • imprint: American Astronomical Society, 2023
  • Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • Language: Not determined
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/acdee1
  • ISSN: 0067-0049; 1538-4365
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> <jats:monospace>SkyPortal</jats:monospace> 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 <jats:monospace>SkyPortal</jats:monospace>-based platform has been operating at scale for &gt;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 <jats:monospace>SkyPortal</jats:monospace> emphasizes rich user experiences across common front-end workflows, recognizing that scientific inquiry is increasingly performed programmatically, <jats:monospace>SkyPortal</jats:monospace> 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 <jats:monospace>SkyPortal</jats:monospace> design emphasizes the reuse and leveraging of best-in-class approaches, with a strong extensibility ethos. For instance, <jats:monospace>SkyPortal</jats:monospace> 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, <jats:monospace>SkyPortal</jats:monospace> 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 <jats:monospace>SkyPortal</jats:monospace> as a community software package ready to take on the data science challenges and opportunities presented by this next chapter in the multimessenger era.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access