TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schwarz, Kilian
TI  - Data-Intensive Radio Astronomy
CY  - eBook, printed copy, ePub for iPad, Kindle edition
PB  - Springer
M1  - PUBDB-2024-00005
SN  - 978-3031584701
SP  - 55-64
PY  - 2024
AB  - Radio astronomy is irreversibly moving towards the exabyte era. In the advent of all-sky radio observations, having efficient tools and methods to manage the large-datavolume generated is imperative. A huge progress has already been made, throughinnovation and expertise in research, and large-data management has been the topicof discussion within the community for decades, with improved interferometers (un-precedented sensitivity and resolution, number of baselines, broad-band receivers).However, the challenges don’t disappear and only grow. Thus the community is ac-tively searching for efficient solutions which will take astrophysics to the exabyte era.Current radio telescopes (e.g. LOFAR, MeerKAT, ASKAP) have identified the dif-ficulties of obtaining hundreds of Gbits per sec of data and processing them throughpipelines in order to produce science ready products, as well as providing efficientmethods to the community to (re)use these data, and having efficient data storage forarchiving.Our vision for this special volume on Data-Intensive Radio Astronomy is basedon a data-centric approach, addressing the data lifecycle to create a coherent flow ofthe content. Bringing together different communities, e.g. astrophysics, high-energyphysics, data science and computer science, our aim is to provide knowledge in thetopic of current tools and ideas for the future development of data management.Diverse input and various approaches are meant to tackle the challenges that currentand future instruments, including radio telescopes, are facing.This special volume represents the vast amount of expertise that needs to cometogether to write a book about data-intensive radio astronomy. The book is separatedin four parts, that describe the data cycle, with a general introduction (Chapter 1)on radio astronomy and why we observe the radio sky, as well as the current andupcoming era of exabyte radio astronomy. Part I on ’Data creation, storage andarchives’ (Chapters 2-4), describes how the data are acquired using radio telescopes,and the need for long-term data archives and high-performance infrastructure tostore data before they can be pre-processed. Part II on ’Data processing’ (Chapters5-7), narrates the challenges of processing large amounts of data efficiently and howdifferent radio facilities around the world face these challenges, employing modernco-design and software architectures. Part III on ’Post-processing and data analysis’(Chapters 8-11), describes the broad science that can be done using the data inhand. The data need to be processed depending on the scientific question, in orderto create ready science products. It further highlights how machine learning andartificial intelligence algorithms aid in the analysis of large data volumes, alongsidemodern techniques of visualisation using virtual reality and planetaria. Part IV on’Data access and reuse’ (Chapters 12-14), explains the effort of radio astronomy andother disciplines to make data and science ready products available for humans andmachines, following the FAIR principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability,and reusability. It highlights the work done for the Virtual Observatory, as well as theneed for proper metadata and data management. Finally, the epilogue (Chapter 15)gives a quick summary and outlook for the future of data-intensive radio astronomy,also keeping in mind the efforts of the community for sustainability in this data-intensive radio era.
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