AAS 237 Special Session Announcement: Astro Data Lab and the NOIRLab Open-Data Ecosystem—Invitation to Participate and Submit Posters

NOIRLab is excited to host a Special Session on The Data Lab Science Platform and Open-Data Ecosystem at NSF’s NOIRLab at the 237th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The meeting, to be held 11-15 January 2021, will be fully virtual. The Special Session will begin with an overview of the Astro Data Lab, its latest advances, and new dataset releases including some of the largest photometric catalogs to date. The Session will then showcase cutting-edge scientific examples that connect various NOIRLab data-oriented services. We hope that session attendees will leave with a greater understanding of the role of science platforms in astronomy, as well as with ideas and inspiration for new research opportunities.

We invite you to submit Special Session posters on any work related to NOIRLab’s data missions, which include the use of Astro Data Lab to access catalog data or conduct analysis, Astro Data Archive to retrieve images or other observations, or the ANTARES time domain broker to identify variable or transient objects in streams of alerts.

Registration for the AAS meeting will open the week of 21 September. We warmly invite astronomers, data scientists, students, and educators of all levels and backgrounds to join us at the Special Session, and to submit a poster abstract on topics related to archive-driven or data-driven astronomy research and education. Please note that a Special Session poster does not count toward the maximum number of contributions for AAS participants.

The full session description can be found here and will soon be available as part of the AAS 237 program. We look forward to sharing our data-oriented services with you and how we can support your science and enable your discoveries.