AAS 237 Splinter Session on NOIRLab’s Data Services: A Practical Demo Built on Science with the Dark Energy Survey

At AAS 237, on Thursday 14 January 2021 at 4:10-5:40 pm EST, the NOIRLab Community Science and Data Center (CSDC) will hold a session demonstrating how to employ NOIRLab’s data services for practical scientific discovery. We will follow a particular science use case drawn from analysis of the Dark Energy Survey DR2 data release (see the DES DR2 Special Session at AAS 237). With the goal of identifying Milky Way dwarf companion galaxies and stellar streams, we will demonstrate how to use:

• Astro Data Archive to construct a high-resolution depth map of DES DR2 from tens of thousands of DECam images,
• Astro Data Lab to query the DES DR2 catalog, create a depth-corrected map of structure, and identify candidate dwarf galaxies and streams,
• ANTARES transient broker to identify variables and to set up watch lists for new time variable objects in the vicinity of those dwarf galaxies and streams,
• TOM Toolkit and AEON network to schedule follow-up observations of select candidate transients and variables with the Gemini telescopes.

Along with these specific demos, we will discuss how the wide array of features of NOIRLab’s data services enable anyone with a good idea to explore, analyze, and follow up massive datasets. Join us!