Improved parallel processing function for high-performance large-scale astronomical cross-matching

Transactions of Tianjin University

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-67

  Zhao, Qing ^a   Sun, Jizhou ^a   Yu, Ce ^a   Xiao, Jian ^a   Cui, Chenzhou ^b   Zhang, Xiao ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Astronomical cross matching; Boundary growing model; Data sparse problem; HEALPix; Task partition

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY GROWING; CROSS-MATCHING; DATA-SPARSE PROBLEM; HEALPIX; TASK PARTITION;

EID: 79955898908     PISSN: 10064982     EISSN: 19958196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12209-011-1491-x     Document Type: Article

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