SkyQuery: Federating astronomy archives

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 12-20

  Budavari, Tamas ^a   Dobos, Laszlo ^b   Szalay, Alexander S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

distributed database; probabilistic cross match; query language; scientific computing; virtual observatory

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE; INTRINSIC DIFFERENCES; LARGE VOLUMES; PROBABILISTIC CROSS-MATCH; QUERY ENGINES; VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 84880544963     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2013.41     Document Type: Article

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