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Mining the Sky

Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, July 31 – August 4, 2000

Part of the book series: ESO Astrophysics Symposia (ESO)

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Table of contents (93 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Introduction to Mining the Sky: Mining 101

    • Edward L. Wright
    Pages 3-14
  3. Regularization and Inverse Problems

    • Anthony Lasenby, Belén Barreiro, Michael Hobson
    Pages 15-32
  4. Fast Algorithms and Efficient Statistics: N-Point Correlation Functions

    • Andrew W. Moore, Andy J. Connolly, Chris Genovese, Alex Gray, Larry Grone, Nick Kanidoris II et al.
    Pages 71-82
  5. Large Databases in Astronomy

    • Alexander S. Szalay, Jim Gray, Peter Kunszt, Anirudha Thakar, Don Slutz
    Pages 99-116
  6. Mining the Sky with Redshift Surveys

    • Marc Davis, Jeffrey A. Newman
    Pages 119-135
  7. Clusters of Galaxies in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey

    • Roberto De Propris, Warrick J. Couch, the 2dFGRS Team
    Pages 136-142
  8. The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - 10K@2K!

    • T. Shanks, B. J. Boyle, S. M. Croom, F. Hoyle, N. Loaring, L. Miller et al.
    Pages 143-153
  9. Mining the Local Universe: the QSO Space Density

    • Stefano Cristiani, Andrea Grazian, Alessandro Omizzolo, Christopher Corbally
    Pages 154-159
  10. The Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey

    • Roy R. Gal, Reinaldo R. de Carvalho, Stephen C. Odewahn, S. George Djorgovski, Robert J. Brunner, Vera E. Margoniner
    Pages 160-167
  11. The Construction of X-ray Cluster Surveys and Their Spatial Analysis

    • Hans Böhringer, Peter Schuecker
    Pages 171-181
  12. XCS: A Serendipitous Galaxy Cluster Survey with XMM-Newton

    • Robert G. Mann, Chris Collins, Andrew Liddle, Robert C. Nichol, Kathy Romer, Pedro Viana et al.
    Pages 182-184
  13. The XMM/Megacam-VST/VIRMOS Large-Scale Structure Survey

    • Marguerite Pierre, the XMM-LSS Consortium
    Pages 185-191
  14. ROSAT’s All-Sky X-Ray View

    • W. Voges, Th Boller, J. Englhauser, M. J. Freyberg, R. Supper
    Pages 192-200
  15. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)

    • Bruno Milliard, Chris Martin (P.I.), Luciana Bianchi, Yong-Ik Byun, José Donas, Tim Heckman et al.
    Pages 201-204
  16. Strong Constraints on Cosmology from Galaxy Clusters

    • J. M. Diego, E. Martínez-González, J. L. Sanz, L. Cayón, J. Silk
    Pages 205-207

About this book

The book reviews methods for the numerical and statistical analysis of astronomical datasets with particular emphasis on the very large databases that arise from both existing and forthcoming projects, as well as current large-scale computer simulation studies. Leading experts give overviews of cutting-edge methods applicable in the area of astronomical data mining. Case studies demonstrate the interplay between these techniques and interesting astronomical problems. The book demonstrates specific new methods for storing, accessing, reducing, analysing, describing and visualising astronomical data which are necessary to fully exploit its potential.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mining the Sky

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, July 31 – August 4, 2000

  • Editors: Anthony J. Banday, Saleem Zaroubi, Matthias Bartelmann

  • Series Title: ESO Astrophysics Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b82674

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-42468-0Published: 11 September 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-30792-2Published: 23 August 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-44665-1Published: 13 February 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1431-2433

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-6143

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 705

  • Number of Illustrations: 325 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Measurement Science and Instrumentation

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