Section author: Robert Nikutta <robert.nikutta@noirlab.edu>
4.4. Glossary¶
A collection of acronyms, abbreviations and jargon that might come up when dealing with Data Lab.
What people say |
What they mean |
|---|---|
AAS |
American Astronomical Society |
AC |
Auth client |
ADQL |
Astronomical Data Query Language |
AM |
Auth manager |
ANTARES |
Real time alert broker client |
API docs |
DL API auto-docs (made from docstrings via Sphinx): https://datalab.noirlab.edu/docs/api |
async |
Asynchronous query mode (call returns immediately with a jobID; check job status later) |
AURA |
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy |
BASS |
Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey |
CSDC |
Community Science and Data Center |
DAD |
DECam Asteroid Database |
DAL |
Data Access Layer |
Data discovery tool |
Online sky visualization and SQL query form tools: https://datalab.noirlab.edu/discovery.php |
DB |
Database |
db0x |
DL machine names, x small integer (example: db01) |
DECaLS |
Dark Energy Camera Legacy Surveys |
DECam |
Dark Energy Camera |
DECaPS |
Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey |
DELVE |
DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey |
DES |
Dark Energy Survey |
DESI |
Dark Energy Survey Instrument |
DL |
Data Lab |
DM |
Data management |
DRAGONS |
Data Reduction for Astronomy from Gemini Observatory North and South |
DRx |
Data Release x, with x a version number, e.g. DES DR1 |
EDR |
Early Data Release |
File Service |
File-level access to arbitrary survey files; collection of all the files that make up a Survey/LLP data release |
GOA |
Gemini Observatory Archive |
GMOS |
Gemini Multi-Object Spectrographs |
gp0x |
DL machine names, x small integer (example: gp04) |
HEALPix |
Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization (of a sphere) |
Helpdesk |
DL help desk (sub-)website: https://datalab.noirlab.edu/help/ |
HLSP |
High-level science product; data product(s) produced by a Survey or LLP |
IRAF |
Image Reduction and Analysis Facility |
IVOA |
International Virtual Observatory Alliance |
LIneA |
Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia (Brazil) |
LLP |
A single Gemini Long and Large Program (has LLP ID and at least one PI) |
LS |
Legacy Surveys |
LSST |
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope |
Manual |
DL online user manual: https://datalab.noirlab.edu/docs/manual/ |
MOC |
HEALPix Multi-Order Coverage Map |
MyDB |
DB system used by DL for user’s personal tabular data storage |
MzLS |
Mayall z-band Legacy Survey |
NB |
(Jupyter) notebook |
NOAO |
National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
NOIRLab |
National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory |
Notebook |
A Jupyter notebook with Python code |
NSC |
NOIRLab Source Catalog |
NSCA |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
PD |
Production database |
PDR |
Production ready database |
PG |
Postgres (the DB we use at DL) |
PG10 |
Postgres version 10 |
PHAT |
Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury |
PI |
Principal Investigator of a Survey/LLP program |
PostgreSQL |
SQL language used by Postgres |
Profile |
A named config that can be set in notebooks/code running calls to DL; sets various machine & DB configs |
Q3C |
Plugin for PostgreSQL, to do searches in circles, ellipses or polygons on the sky, and fast cross-matches. |
QC |
Query client |
QM |
Query manager |
SAMP |
Simple Application Messaging Protocol (TOPCAT uses it a lot) |
SC |
Store client |
SCS |
Simple Cone Search, an IVOA protocol for object queries in a conical area around a central point |
SDSS |
Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
SGA |
Siena Galaxy Atlas |
SIA |
Simple Image Access, an IVOA protocol to query for images at given sky coordinates |
SM |
Store manager |
SMASH |
Survey of the Magellanic Stellar History |
SP |
Science Platform |
SPARCL |
SPectra Analysis and Retrievable Catalog Lab |
Sphinx |
The documentation system we use for the DL manual, DL devops docs, code API auto-doc |
S-PLUS |
Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey |
SQL |
Structured Query Language |
SSA |
Simple Spectral Access, an IVOA protocol to query for spectra |
SVA1 |
Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification (SV) phase, version A1 |
sync |
Synchronous query mode (call blocks until result is returned) |
TAC |
Time Allocation Committee |
TAP |
IVOA Table Access Protocol (for catalogs in databases) |
Token |
User auth token obtained by logging in to DL |
UKIDSS |
UKIRT InfraRed Deep Sky Surveys |
USNO |
U.S. Naval Observatory, provider of e.g. the USNO-A2 Catalog of Astrometric Standards |
VHS |
Vista Hemisphere Survey |
VO |
Virtual Observatory |
VOS |
virtual observatory space (virtual storage) |
VOTable |
VO Table Format |
xmatch |
Cross-match |
