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New Frontiers in Astronomy
1. New Frontiers in Astronomy Dr Alberto Conti
Space Telescope Science Institute
Saturday, March 7, 2009
2. Visible – Hubble Space Telescope
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Gamma rays - Compton Gamma Ray Obs.
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X-rays - Chandra X-ray Observatory
• April 2006
Infrared - Spitzer Space Telescope
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3. Community
Missions Office
Optimize the science from community-led
astrophysics missions and projects.
Develop, nurture, and share innovations in
space astronomy science operations.
Collaborate on the next generation of space
astrophysics programs.
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4. Astronomy Project Timeline
A Partial List of Key Astrophysics Facilities
Ares V Flights
Beyond Einstein
INTEGRAL WISE JWST
SWIFT SIM? TPF?
WMAP Herschel - Planck
Kepler
GLAST
GALEX
FUSE
XMM
Chandra
Spitzer
HST
SOFIA
SDSS
VLT & Gemini Observatories
PANSTARRS
LSST
TMT
ALMA
NVO Development NVO Operations
2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
Start date and Probable Duration
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5. Astronomy Project Timeline
STScI Project and Mission Activity
Ares V Flights
Beyond Einstein
INTEGRAL WISE JWST
SWIFT SIM? TPF?
WMAP Herschel - Planck
Kepler
GLAST
GALEX
FUSE
XMM
Chandra
Spitzer
HST
SOFIA
SDSS
VLT & Gemini Observatories
PANSTARRS
LSST
TMT
ALMA
NVO Development NVO Operations
2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
Start date and Probable Duration
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6. MAST
Kepler
Microsoft
WWT
Community Missions
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12. Astronomy is changing
Old days: photographic plates
1960: astronomical goes digital
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Instruments collect 100 GB/
night
Detectors follow Moore’s Law
Total data doubles every 2 years
Growth over 25 years is a factor
of 30 in glass, 3000 in pixels
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13. Space is big!
For one picture you need a
2 Trillion pixels camera!
Challenges for the Future
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14. Monochrome : 4 Terabytes
or
5% of the Library of Congress
Challenges for the Future
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15. Color: 100 Terabytes
or
the 21% more than the entire
Library of Congress
Challenges for the Future
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16. Time: 10 Petabytes
or
120 times the entire
Library of Congress
Challenges for the Future
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17. New analysis & visualization tools are required
Challenges for the Future
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18. Adapt or Perish
Google Earth, Microsoft
Virtual Earth have
revolutionized the way
we look at our planet.
We proposed a new
synergistic approach to
the challenge of bringing
the universe to our
desktops
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19. Old Public Data Access
•Many observatories
•Individual interfaces
Mission A
Mission B
Observatory X
Mission C
Observatory Y
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20. New Science Paradigm:
First Iteration
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•Data Standards
•Protocols
Mission A
Mission B
Observatory X
Mission C
Observatory Y
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21. New Science Paradigm:
Second Iteration
Data Standards, Protocols, Mining Tools
Mission A
Mission B
Metadata
Observatory X
Mission C
Observatory Y
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22. New Science Paradigm Problems
• Technology is trumping science
• Many distributed services are unreliable
• Little idea of what users are doing and why
• Complex, difficult to use
• Moving data around is hard
• Hard for user to publish their own data
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23. Challenges
• Reduce obstacles to Capturing, Organizing, Summarizing,
Analyzing,Visualizing, and Curating
• Consider data and algorithms as “the product”
• Adopt semantic technologies to enable automated
metadata tagging, clustering and mining
• Transition to the new astronomy
• Sociological issues
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24. New Science Paradigm:
Science 2.0
Individual
Users
Intʼl Data Centers
Kitchen Sink
NASA Data Centers
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25. User
Database
Intʼl Data Centers
Kitchen Sink
Browsers
NASA Data Centers
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26. • We must partner with other academic
disciplines: Computer Science, Statistics, ...
• We must leverage partnerships with
industry interested in enabling Science 2.0
• We must learn to be humble and ask for
help
• We must remember that we have the
greatest datasets in the world (universe
really!)
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27. Dr Alberto Conti
aconti@stsci.edu
With thanks to
Brian McLean
Dr Carol Christian Josh Perlow
Collaborator
carolc@stsci.edu Tony Rogers
Bernie Shiao
Shui-ay Tseng
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Editor's Notes
Here are the 3 primary goals the institute’s CMO strives to achieve.
You clearly know the landscape of astronomy missions and facilities on the ground and in space is quite diverse and holds promise for many exciting discoveries. Our aim is to offer to the community the use our scientific and technical experiences to help minimiize duplication of effort, help avoid known operational pitfalls. But we, as members of this same community, are also keenly interested in identifying and collaborating in future missions that will carry astrophysics forward in a number of areas.
These are the subset of those missions that we are or will be playing a role in. Obviously some, like HST and JWST, we play a key role. Others we play an important supporting role by carrying out a specific operations task that is integrated with an external science operations center or team.