1.1.4. Acknowledgment of Data Lab

NOIRLab maintains a list of proper acknowledgments to use when publishing papers using NOIRLab facilities, data, or services.

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:

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

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

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.