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
The NOIRLab Library maintains lists of proper acknowledgments to use when publishing papers using the 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
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