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1. FORCE: FORtran for Cosmic Errors

   We review the theory of cosmic errors we have recently developed for count-in-cells statistics. The corresponding FORCE package provides a simple and...

   Stéphane Colombi, István Szapudi in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

2. Relating Galaxy Cluster X-Ray Luminosities to Gravitational Masses in Wide-Angle Surveys

   The cosmologically most important cluster parameter is its gravitational mass. In order to constrain cosmological models of structure formation by...

   Thomas H. Reiprich, Hans Böhringer in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

3. Automated Classification Techniques for Large Spectroscopic Surveys

   With the onset of large, systematically selected spectroscopic surveys we have the opportunity to understand the distribution and evolution of...

   A. J. Connolly, F. Castander, ... C. W. Yip in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

4. Fast Algorithms and Efficient Statistics: N-Point Correlation Functions

   We present here a new algorithm for the fast computation of N-Point correlation functions in large astronomical data sets. The algorithm is based on...

   Andrew W. Moore, Andy J. Connolly, ... Larry Wasserman in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

5. Automatic Technique for Spectral Analysis

   The paper puts forward two automatic methods to deal with astronomical spectra. An automatic classification method of stellar spectra using the Self...

   Yongheng Zhao, Jianqiao Xue, ... Qibin Li in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

6. Noise Estimation in CMB Time-Streams and Fast Iterative Map-Making

   We describe here an iterative method for jointly estimating the noise power spectrum from a CMB experiment’s time-ordered data, together with the...

   S. Prunet, P. A. R. Ade, ... N. Vittorio in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

7. Source Identification Through Decision Trees

   This paper presents the use of decision tree based techniques for optical / ultraviolet source identification. Such techniques allow to improve...

   Bruno Voisin, José Donas in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

8. Mining the Thermal SZ Effect with a Speedy Pixon Algorithm

   A Speedy Pixon Algorithm for image reconstruction is applied. Galaxy clusters are extracted from multi-wavelength microwave sky maps using the...

   Luís Teodoro, Vincent R. Eke in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

9. Extracting Knowledge from Very Large Datasets in a Multi-Wavelength Context

   The ability to extract knowledge from very large data catalogues resulting from sky surveys or from deep wide fields, observed at various wavelength...

   Daniel Egret in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

10. Splitting the Sky - HTM and HEALPix

    Mission data sets are increasing in size and complexity. To enable efficient processing and storage of such data sets a tessellation scheme may be...

    W. O’Mullane, A. J. Banday, ... A. S. Szalay in Mining the Sky

    Conference paper
    

11. Case Study of Handling Scientific Queries on Very Large Datasets: The SDSS Science Archive

    The SDSS Science Archive (SX) was designed to enable scientific data mining and interactive data exploration on the terabyte scale. It consists of a...

    Aniruddha R. Thakar, Peter Z. Kunszt, Alexander S. Szalay in Mining the Sky

    Conference paper
    

12. The Deepest Field

    The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy experiments are starting to map the last scattering surface at...

    P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, ... N. Vittorio in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

13. On the Evolution of Nearby Star-Forming Systems and Their Connection to Primeval Galaxies

    We present the state of the art of a project to infer the spectro-photometric and chemical evolution history of some benchmark nearby star-forming...

    Alessandra Aloisi in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

14. Constraining Models of Galaxy Formation with Deep Multicolor Galaxy Surveys

    We present a comparison between the observed properties of high redshift galaxies, as they result from the analysis of deep multicolor imaging...

    Adriano Fontana, Nicola Menci, ... Paolo Saracco in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

15. ISO Observations of Star-Forming Galaxies

    The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) is used to carry out mid-IR (7 and $15...

    Bahram Mobasher, José Afonso, Lawrence Cram in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

16. Distant Disk Galaxies: Kinematics and Evolution to $z \sim 1$

    High resolution HST images have been combined with Keck+LRIS and VLT+ISAAC spectra to study the internal kinematics of 100 faint disk galaxies in the...

    Nicole P. Vogt in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

17. The Star Formation Density in the High-Redshift Universe

    We use images of the Hubble Deep Fields (HDFs) to estimate the universal star formation density (SFD) and its evolution. We find that it increases...

    Alberto Fernández-Soto, Kenneth M. Lanzetta, ... Noriaki Yahata in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

18. A Deep Look at the Most Distant X-Ray Clusters

    We present highlights from a study of galaxy populations and the intracluster medium (ICM) in three galaxy clusters at z > 1.2, the most distant...

    Piero Rosati, Adam Stanford, ... Peter Eisenhardt in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

19. Population of Cl1601+42 at z = 0.54

    We use photometric redshifts to determine the rest frame cluster luminosity function (LF) to...

    Tomas Dahlén, Claes Fransson, Magnus Näslund in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

20. Deep Observations of Lyman Break Galaxies

    We summarise the main results of recent work on the Lyman break galaxy population which takes advantage of newly commissioned instrumentation on the...

    Max Pettini, Charles C. Steidel, ... Mauro Giavalisco in Deep Fields

    Conference paper