Use of Docker for deployment and testing of astronomy software

D Morris, S Voutsinas, NC Hambly, RG Mann - Astronomy and computing, 2017 - Elsevier
We describe preliminary investigations of using Docker for the deployment and testing of
astronomy software. Docker is a relatively new containerization technology that is …

X-rays beware: the deepest Chandra catalogue of point sources in M31

N Vulic, SC Gallagher, P Barmby - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This study represents the most sensitive Chandra X-ray point source catalogue of M31.
Using 133 publicly available Chandra ACIS-I/S observations totalling∼ 1 Ms, we detected …

A brief survey on the virtual observatory

M Araya, M Solar, J Antognini - New Astronomy, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a short survey on the astronomical Virtual Observatories (VOs) that are
part of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA). From how they are distributed …

Faint X-ray binaries and their optical counterparts in M31

N Vulic, SC Gallagher, P Barmby - The Astrophysical Journal, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT X-ray binaries (XRBs) are probes of both star formation and stellar mass, but
more importantly remain one of the only direct tracers of the compact object population. To …