Data challenges of time domain astronomy

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 371-384

  Graham, Matthew J ^a   Djorgovski, S G ^a   Mahabal, Ashish ^a   Donalek, Ciro ^a   Drake, Andrew ^a   Longo, Giuseppe ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Classification; Time domain; Virtual observatory

Indexed keywords

DATA CHALLENGES; DATA INTENSIVE; DATA MINING ALGORITHM; DATA RATES; EXPONENTIAL COMPLEXITY; LINKED DATUM; ROBOTIC TELESCOPE; TIME DOMAIN; VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY;

ALGORITHMS; ASTRONOMY; BUILDINGS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OBSERVATORIES; SENSOR NETWORKS; SURVEYS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84868368254     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: 15737578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10619-012-7101-7     Document Type: Article

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