LSSGalPY: Interactive visualization of the large-scale environment around galaxies

M. Argudo-Fernández, S. Duarte Puertas, J. E. Ruiz, J. Sabater, S. Verley, G. Bergond

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number058005
JournalPublications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Volume129
Issue number975
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Galaxies: General
  • Galaxies: statistics
  • Methods: Miscellaneous
  • Methods: Observational
  • Methods: Statistical
  • Methods: data analysis
  • Surveys

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