TY - JOUR
T1 - LSSGalPy: Interactive Visualization of the Large-scale Environment Around Galaxies
AU - Argudo-Fernández, M.
AU - Duarte Puertas, S.
AU - Ruiz, J. E.
AU - Sabater, J.
AU - Verley, S.
AU - Bergond, G.
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - 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.
.
AB - 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.
.
U2 - 10.1088/1538-3873/aa5785
DO - 10.1088/1538-3873/aa5785
M3 - Article
VL - 129
SP - 58005
JO - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
JF - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
SN - 0004-6280
IS - 975
ER -