TY - JOUR
T1 - LSSGalPY
T2 - Interactive visualization of the large-scale environment around galaxies
AU - Argudo-Fernández, M.
AU - Puertas, S. Duarte
AU - Ruiz, J. E.
AU - Sabater, J.
AU - Verley, S.
AU - Bergond, G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - New tools are needed to handle the growth of data in astrophysics delivered by recent and upcoming surveys. We aim to build open-source, light, flexible, and interactive software designed to visualize extensive three-dimensional (3D) tabular data. Entirely written in the Python language, we have developed interactive tools to browse and visualize the positions of galaxies in the universe and their positions with respect to its large-scale structures (LSS). Motivated by a previous study, we created two codes using Mollweide projection and wedge diagram visualizations, where survey galaxies can be overplotted on the LSS of the universe. These are interactive representations where the visualizations can be controlled by widgets. We have released these open-source codes that have been designed to be easily re-used and customized by the scientific community to fulfill their needs. The codes are adaptable to other kinds of 3D tabular data and are robust enough to handle several millions of objects.
AB - New tools are needed to handle the growth of data in astrophysics delivered by recent and upcoming surveys. We aim to build open-source, light, flexible, and interactive software designed to visualize extensive three-dimensional (3D) tabular data. Entirely written in the Python language, we have developed interactive tools to browse and visualize the positions of galaxies in the universe and their positions with respect to its large-scale structures (LSS). Motivated by a previous study, we created two codes using Mollweide projection and wedge diagram visualizations, where survey galaxies can be overplotted on the LSS of the universe. These are interactive representations where the visualizations can be controlled by widgets. We have released these open-source codes that have been designed to be easily re-used and customized by the scientific community to fulfill their needs. The codes are adaptable to other kinds of 3D tabular data and are robust enough to handle several millions of objects.
KW - Galaxies: General
KW - Galaxies: statistics
KW - Methods: Miscellaneous
KW - Methods: Observational
KW - Methods: Statistical
KW - Methods: data analysis
KW - Surveys
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020008194&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1538-3873/aa5785
DO - 10.1088/1538-3873/aa5785
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85020008194
SN - 0004-6280
VL - 129
JO - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
JF - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
IS - 975
M1 - 058005
ER -