Modern astronomers are like librarians. In the era of the big observatories and large surveys astronomers must handle gigantic data-sets, and they have to face the challenging task of merging all the data before being able to study the properties of stars and galaxies. To improve this situation, the community has devoted a considerable effort to develop flexible databases and interactive tools that speed up the data-mining.
In this project, we will create a web-interface (mostly in Java, php and HTML) that will let the user explore a galaxy database in the same way that we use Google Maps to locate stores and find out information about them. We will follow the pioneering effort of the AEGIS collaboration (led by UCSC astronomers) which posted the result of their multi-band survey in google sky.
Mentor: Guillermo Barro, Postdoctoral Scholar