Acknowledgment of Astro Data Lab and SPARCL

If you use Astro Data Lab in your published research, please include the text in your paper's Acknowledgments section:

This research uses services or data provided by the Astro Data Lab, which is part of the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC) Program of NSF NOIRLab. NOIRLab is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation.

If you use SPARCL jointly with the Astro Data Lab platform (via JupyterLab, command-line, or web interface) in your published research, please include this text below in your paper's Acknowledgments section:

This research uses services or data provided by the SPectra Analysis and Retrievable Catalog Lab (SPARCL) and the Astro Data Lab, which are both part of the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC) Program of NSF NOIRLab. NOIRLab is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation.

In either case please cite the following papers:

Data Lab concept paper: Fitzpatrick et al., "The NOAO Data Laboratory: a conceptual overview", SPIE, 9149, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057445
Astro Data Lab overview: Nikutta et al., "Data Lab - A Community Science Platform", Astronomy and Computing, 33, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2020.100411

If you are referring to the Data Lab JupyterLab / Jupyter Notebooks, cite:

Juneau et al., "Jupyter-Enabled Astrophysical Analysis Using Data-Proximate Computing Platforms", CiSE, 23, 15, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2021.3057097

If publishing in a AAS journal, also add the keyword: \facility{Astro Data Lab}, and if you are using SPARCL, please also add \software{SPARCL} and cite:

Juneau et al., "SPARCL: SPectra Analysis and Retrievable Catalog Lab", Conference Proceedings for ADASS XXXIII, 2024 [https://doi.org/ 10.48550/arXiv.2401.05576](https://doi.org/ 10.48550/arXiv.2401.05576)

The NOIRLab Library maintains lists of proper acknowledgments to use when publishing papers using the Data Lab's facilities, data, or services.

Acknowledgment of survey datasets

Note that specific datasets in the Astro Data Lab request additional acknowledgments. Please consult the specific survey websites or the specific landing page from our Survey Data page for specific wording.

Software license

Astro Data Lab software components are distributed under the BSD 3-clause license, as follows:

Copyright (c) 2016-2024, NSF NOIRLab / AURA

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Acknowledgment of Astro Data Lab and SPARCL

If you use Astro Data Lab in your published research, please include the text in your paper's Acknowledgments section:

This research uses services or data provided by the Astro Data Lab, which is part of the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC) Program of NSF NOIRLab. NOIRLab is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation.

This research uses services or data provided by the SPectra Analysis and Retrievable Catalog Lab (SPARCL) and the Astro Data Lab, which are both part of the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC) Program of NSF NOIRLab. NOIRLab is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation.

In either case please cite the following papers:

Data Lab concept paper: Fitzpatrick et al., "The NOAO Data Laboratory: a conceptual overview", SPIE, 9149, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057445

Astro Data Lab overview: Nikutta et al., "Data Lab - A Community Science Platform", Astronomy and Computing, 33, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2020.100411

If you are referring to the Data Lab JupyterLab / Jupyter Notebooks, cite:

Juneau et al., "Jupyter-Enabled Astrophysical Analysis Using Data-Proximate Computing Platforms", CiSE, 23, 15, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2021.3057097

If publishing in a AAS journal, also add the keyword: \facility{Astro Data Lab}, and if you are using SPARCL, please also add \software{SPARCL} and cite:

Juneau et al., "SPARCL: SPectra Analysis and Retrievable Catalog Lab", Conference Proceedings for ADASS XXXIII, 2024 [https://doi.org/ 10.48550/arXiv.2401.05576](https://doi.org/ 10.48550/arXiv.2401.05576)

The NOIRLab Library maintains lists of proper acknowledgments to use when publishing papers using the Data Lab's facilities, data, or services.

Software license

Astro Data Lab software components are distributed under the BSD 3-clause license, as follows:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.