Astrophysics Data System Research Articles

Scientific Impact of Novel Instrumentation: The Case of MUSE

In the process of transforming science cases into a viable and affordable design for a novel instrument, there is the problem of how to gauge their scientific impact, especially when they end up in competing top level requirements that can be incompatible with each other. This research note presents a case study for scientific impact of the integral field spectrograph MUSE in terms of number of refereed publications from 2014 to 2024 as a figure of merit, broken down by different research areas. The analysis is based on the Basic ESO Publication Statistics service and NASA's Astrophysics Data System.

A review of studies on mass-movements on the Moon

The study of the lunar surface is a significant field in exploring the Moon. As a non-negligible geological process shaping the lunar surface, however, the mass movements on the Moon have not been deeply studied regarding all available datasets. In this paper, we report the results of the literature review and quantitative analysis of 965 articles retrieved from the Scopus, WoS, and Astrophysics Data System databases using keyword search terms between the years 1872 and 2022. The main findings show that the lunar mass movements are a lasting but recent prosperous research topic (since 2009). The top three influential journals in this area are Icarus, JGR, and P&SS. Robinson, Lucchitta, and Carr are the most three productive authors. California Institute of Technology, Arizona State University, and Johns Hopkins University are active institutions leading the lunar mass movements research, and the related institutions are mainly located in the United States, Russia, and China. Articles are primarily published in journals specializing in the fields of astronomy and physics. The index analysis of citation indicates the growth of the academic impact of articles about the lunar mass movements. This article summarizes the datasets, methods, and relevant parameters of lunar mass movements to facilitate future research, as well as discussing the limitations and trends in the field. In addition, four unsolved issues are proposed, including: 1) the lack of a comprehensive global database that records all types of landslides incidents; 2) the need for definite classification indicators to quantify the classification criteria for lunar mass movements; 3) the absence of a mathematical model to explain the triggering mechanism of mass movements on the Moon; and 4) the lack of quantitative indexes to evaluate the modification effect of mass movements on the lunar surface morphology. With the support of big data, the combination of artificial intelligence and traditional GIS methods is expected to become the main approach for addressing these issues such a bibliometric analysis can inspire future researchers by exploring the overall characteristics of the published literature on lunar mass movements.

Translation into Italianof the Original Paper - Title: The Capture Cross-Section of Earth for Errant Asteroids - Authors: Tatum, J. B.- Copyright - Provided by NASA Astrophysics Data System Journal: Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 91, p.276 - Bibliographic Code: 1997JRASC..91..276 - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1997JRASC..91..276T

Translation into Italianof the Original Paper - Title: The Capture Cross-Section of Earth for Errant Asteroids - Authors: Tatum, J. B.- Copyright - Provided by NASA Astrophysics Data System Journal: Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 91, p.276 - Bibliographic Code: 1997JRASC..91..276 - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1997JRASC..91..276T

Asclepias: Software Citations Enter the Scholarly Literature World

In September of 2016, the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) started to work on the implementation of first-class support of software. This work was started as a result of the Asclepias project, funded through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to the American Astronomical Society. The main goal of the Asclepias project is to promote scientific software into an identifiable, citable, and preservable object. It highlighted the fact that no single stakeholder can solve the software citation problem. It requires close collaboration between a publisher (the American Astronomical Society), a repository (Zenodo) and an indexing service (ADS). This paper focuses on the contribution the ADS has made to this project. Five years later, the ADS has indexed just over 10k Zenodo software records, representing almost 19k citations. How did we get here? We describe the underlying infrastructure developed at ADS which implements a software citation detection, metadata capture and ingest, and event-driven notification system to a broker used by ADS collaborators. We include a discussion of the challenges that we have encountered in the implementation and operation of the system.

The Entry of Supergiants into the Astronomical Lexicon

The early use of the term supergiant within the published literature has been traced from text searches carried out with the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System.

Maximizing Research Output from the ADS

The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) offers several new powerful ways to explore how research data is being used. Our full text index allows searching the full text of more than 6 million articles, including ones that may have access restrictions as well as many older ones which may be historically significant. We continue to improve the breadth and quality of our external linking, providing links to both data and software used in the process of writing articles. We have recently implemented our affiliation search, which gives users the ability to search and filter results by organizations, allowing for better author disambiguation and improving the ability to create institutional bibliographies. In addition, our visualization tools allow a variety of insights into the data which can be used to cluster and display results potentially leading to new scientific conclusions.

Embracing the Crowd: People-powered Research to Preserve the History of Astronomy

Project PHaEDRA (Preserving Harvard’s Early Data and Research in Astronomy) is a collaborative initiative led by Wolbach Library to digitize, transcribe, and enhance the metadata of over 2,500 notebooks and logbooks created from the mid-18th through early 20th centuries by the Harvard Computers and other researchers at the Harvard College Observatory. Digitization of the notebooks began in 2016, and was completed in 2019. As the notebooks were digitized, they were made available online through the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). At the same time, the digital scans were sent to the Smithsonian Transcription Center for full transcription by volunteers. While the full transcriptions will prove useful to researchers when completed, they do not provide a mechanism for linking the PHaEDRA notebooks back to their original source material: over 500,000 glass plate photographs identified by unique plate numbers. To remedy this, PHaEDRA team members are now working with volunteers on the Zooniverse platform to identify and transcribe the plate numbers found in the notebooks. This new component of Project PHaEDRA is called Star Notes and will eventually allow for deep linking between the notebooks and the digitized glass plates. As other observatories and astronomy libraries consider what to do with their glass plate collections and associated logbooks, Project PHaEDRA may be used as a model to make our shared astronomical heritage accessible for future generations.

Responsible Metrics for Astronomy: Comparing ADS to Other Citation Databases

The Astrophysics Data System is well established as one of the most prominent discipline specific citation databases. As such, it is a rich source of astronomy related metrics. It has been specified as “designed to be useful to astronomers, not bibliometricians”. There is a general agreement that the coverage, metadata and classifications found in the more general citation databases such as Web of Science and Scopus do not serve needs of the astronomy and astrophysics community equally well.

Preface

The 7th International Conference on Mathematics, Science and Education 2020 (ICMSE2020) is the international conference organized by Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Universitas Negeri Semarang (Indonesia) under the theme of Accelerating Innovative Research from Laboratory to Industry. This conference aims to discuss the innovation of the laboratory research as well as to downstream those innovative products.Since the world has faced the global Covid-19 pandemic, it would be too risky to hold international conference through direct plenary meeting. Therefore, the conference that was originally conducted in Semarang, Indonesia, on 6 October 2020 but then it was converted into virtual conference to protect participants from Corona Virus transmission. In addition, travel restrictions also prevented participants from attending the conference onsite, then the virtual conference setting was decided as the best option to keep the conference ran on schedule.The keynote and invited speakers from five countries consisting of Asst. Prof. Dr. Chalongrat Daengngam (Thailand), Assoc. Prof. Stephane Bressan (Singapore), Asst. Prof. Aditya P. Adiredja, Ph.D (USA), Assoc. Prof. Ch.M Dr. Roswanira Abdul Wahab (Malaysia), and Prof. Dr. Ir. Amin Retnoningsih, M.Si (Indonesia) delivered their talk through video conference, and the technology support to deliver the conference was “Zoom Video Conferencing” software. All keynote speakers shared the material from their countries as well as the participants.There were three sessions which involved opening, invited speaker presentation and authors’ parallel presentation. Opening session consisting of keynote speech and opening remark lasted 20 minutes, followed by each invited speaker presentation for 20 minutes and each author presentation took 10 minutes. The breakout rooms were provided to facilitate authors in presenting their research result. Every parallel session was guided by one moderator to lead the discussion. Participants still could involve themselves in the intellectual discussion in invited speakers and parallel sessions although the conference was conducted virtually as they could write the question through chat box or directly deliver their question.Finally, the committees via review stage selected the papers-presented in this forum to be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Institute of Physics Publisher) indexed in some databases, including the Conference citation index, Scopus, Chemical s Service, and Astrophysics Data System. We hope that this program will expand the mutual understanding and respect in stimulating research in Mathematics, Science, and Education; share research interest and information, and create a form of collaboration and build a trust relationship. We are delighted to be able to show the world what recent developments in the field of Mathematics, Natural Science, and Science Education through this fruitful program.As conclusion, we would like to acknowledge to all of supporting teams, especially the organizing committee members and reviewers, for their great contribution in conference organization. We hope that this program will further encourage research publication in Mathematics, Natural Science, and Science Education and build trust relationship. We feel honoured and privileged to serve the best recent developments in the field of Mathematics, Natural Science, and Science Education to you through this exciting program.ChairpersonProf. Dr. Dyah Rini Indriyanti, M.P.List of Committees, Images are available in this pdf.

Disambiguation of author entities in ADS using supervised learning and graph theory methods

Disambiguation of authors in digital libraries is essential for many tasks, including efficient bibliographical searches and scientometric analyses to the level of individuals. The question of how to link documents written by the same person has been given much attention by academic publishers and information retrieval researchers alike. Usual approaches rely on publications’ metadata such as affiliations, email addresses, co-authors, or scholarly topics. Lack of homogeneity in the structure of bibliographic collections and discipline-specific dissimilarities between them make the creation of general-purpose disambiguators arduous. We present an algorithm to disambiguate authorships in the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) following an established semi-supervised approach of training a classifier on authorship pairs and clustering the resulting graphs. Due to the lack of high-signal features such as email addresses and citations, we engineer additional content- and location-based features via text embeddings and named-entity recognition. We train various nonlinear tree-based classifiers and detect communities from the resulting weighted graphs through label propagation, a fast yet efficient algorithm that requires no tuning. The resulting procedure reaches reasonable complexity and offers possibilities for interpretation. We apply our method to the creation of author entities in a recent ADS snapshot. The algorithm is evaluated on 39 manually-labeled author blocks comprising 9545 authorships from 562 author profiles. Our best approach utilizes the Random Forest classifier and yields a micro- and macro-averaged BCubed mathrm {F}_1 score of 0.95 and 0.87, respectively. We release our code and labeled data publicly to foster the development of further disambiguation procedures for ADS.

History of Astronomy in Australia: Big-Impact Astronomy from World War II until the Lunar Landing (1945–1969)

Radio astronomy commenced in earnest after World War II, with Australia keenly engaged through the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. At this juncture, Australia’s Commonwealth Solar Observatory expanded its portfolio from primarily studying solar phenomena to conducting stellar and extragalactic research. Subsequently, in the 1950s and 1960s, astronomy gradually became taught and researched in Australian universities. However, most scientific publications from this era of growth and discovery have no country of affiliation in their header information, making it hard to find the Australian astronomy articles from this period. In 2014, we used the then-new Astrophysics Data System (ADS) tool Bumblebee to overcome this challenge and track down the Australian-led astronomy papers published during the quarter of a century after World War II, from 1945 until the lunar landing in 1969. This required knowledge of the research centres and facilities operating at the time, which are briefly summarised herein. Based on citation counts—an objective, universally-used measure of scientific impact—we report on the Australian astronomy articles which had the biggest impact. We have identified the top-ten most-cited papers, and thus also their area of research, from five consecutive time-intervals across that blossoming quarter-century of astronomy. Moreover, we have invested a substantial amount of time researching and providing a small tribute to each of the 62 scientists involved, including several trail-blazing women. Furthermore, we provide an extensive list of references and point out many interesting historical connections and anecdotes.

Collection Development for Librarians in a Hurry: A Survey of the Physics Resources of the Libraries of the Association of American Universities

This study is an examination of the databases, websites, journals, and monograph titles most frequently included in the library resource guides of 65 well-regarded research institutions. Through an analysis of library resource guides, this study enumerates the resources most frequently recommended to the physics community for study and research. Open access resources, such as arXiv, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), and INSPIRE, are among the most included titles. Notably, websites of professional organizations and governmental agencies are also frequently named. The study is meant to assist librarians in developing and maintaining collections to recommend to the physics community.

Second Order Operators in the NASA Astrophysics Data System

Second Order Operators (SOOs) are database functions which form secondary queries based on attributes of the objects returned in an initial query; they can provide powerful methods to investigate complex, multipartite information graphs. The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) has implemented four SOOs, reviews, useful, trending, and similar which use the citations, references, downloads, and abstract text. This tutorial describes these operators in detail, both alone and in conjunction with other functions. It is intended for scientists and others who wish to make fuller use of the ADS database. Basic knowledge of the ADS is assumed.

Merging the citations received by arXiv-deposited e-prints and their corresponding published journal articles: Problems and perspectives

Merging the citation counts of arXiv-deposited e-prints (arXiv version) with those of their corresponding published journal articles (publisher version) is an important issue in citation analysis. Using examples of arXiv-deposited e-prints, this article adopts a manual approach to investigate the processing methods used by bibliographic repositories such as Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, Astrophysics Data System (ADS), and INSPIRE for the citation merging. Both Google Scholar and ADS consolidate all citations from the two versions into the publisher one, whereas the consolidated citations are accumulated into the arXiv version in the INSPIRE repository. All these methods ignore the categories of the arXiv-deposited versions and the corresponding availability dates. As for Web of Science and Scopus, they count the citations of the two versions separately, which is likely regarding them as two independent articles. Focusing on journal articles that also appeared as arXiv e-prints, we classify them into two categories and identify two public availability dates of articles as the starting point of citation statistics. We present four feasible schemes to consolidate citation counts for the articles with both versions and also propose a universal scheme based on the research output. Furthermore, we investigated 2,662 e-prints in the “Computer Science - Digital Libraries” subject (cs.DL) from 1998 to 2018 in arXiv.org and manually calculated the consolidated citation counts of arXiv-deposited articles with the corresponding citation merging schemes. Furthermore, these citation consolidation methods are applied to the evaluation of articles, authors, and journals. Such empirical testing proves the feasibility of the schemes proposed in this article.

Theoretical study of transition spectra of TiO molecule

The transitional characters for eight transition systems of TiO were investigated by using the ab initio calculation. Highly accurate MRCI + Q approach was used to investigate the potential energy curves (PECs) and transition dipole moment curves (TDMCs) with 4221 levels that results are consisted with experimental determinations. Moreover, combining the values of PECs with TDMCs, the Einstein A coefficients, transitional lifetimes, ro-vibrational intensities, absorption oscillator strengths, and frequency-integrated cross sections are calculated including transition bands v′ = 0–6 ← v″ = 0–6. For application in the atmospheres, the absolute intensities and line-shapes of allowed transition systems at different temperature were studied to satisfy some astrophysical applications. The results are also potentially useful for important Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and databases such as HITEMP, NIST. Since the results from many laboratory techniques and our calculations now agree, analyses of TiO based on absorption from allowed transitions are no longer hindered by present determinations.

Scientometric Study of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research in India (1994 – 2015): An Analysis from Astrophysics Data System

A scientometric study evaluation of India’s scientific research output in the field of astronomy and astrophysics during 1994–2015 has been done. The bibliographic data were harvested from Astrophysics Data System Database (ADSD) for a period of 22 years from 1994 to 2015. The compound annual growth rate, collaboration trends, authorship pattern, growth rate and doubling time, degree of collaboration, highly productive authors are examined. India is holding 15th rank in the field of astronomy and astrophysics research in the world and it is found that 9.09% was the average CAGR of Indian astronomy and astrophysics publications during the study period. It is also found that India has published 83.67% of research papers as journal articles, 11.88% publication as conference papers. The degree of collaboration is 0.86. The study revealed that collabor ative research is most preferred and focused as multi authorship pattern of publication; 3815 papers were two–authored followed by 3250 papers with three–authors during the study period.

Characteristics of hydraulic fracture surface based on 3D scanning technology.

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Suitable resolution of EOS tables for neutron star investigations * * Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (11722546 and 11275073), Talent Program of South China University of Technology (K5180470), This Project is Sponsored by CSC and has Made Use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System

Inasmuch as the hydrostatic structure of the interior of neutron stars uniquely depends on the equation of state (EOS), the inverse constraints on EOS from astrophysical observations have been an important method for revealing the properties of high density matter. Currently, most EOS for neutron star matter are given in tabular form, but these numerical tables can have quite different resolution. To guarantee both the accuracy and efficiency in computing the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations, a concise standard for generating EOS tables with suitable resolution is investigated. It is shown that EOS tables with 50 points logarithmic-uniformly distributed in the supra-nuclear density segment [ ], where is the nuclear saturation density, correspond to the interpolation induced errors of ~0.02% for the gravitational mass and ~0.2% for the tidal deformability .

Bibliography of the works by Piotr Flin (1945–2018), an astronomer and exact sciences historian

The bibliography presents the list of publications by Piotr Flin (1945–2018), an astronomer and exact sciences historian. This study presents a list of two hundred and fifty (including two hundred and forty-three separate) publications of the late Piotr Flin and a list of three doctoral theses he supervised. It is likely that the list of publications presented is not a complete bibliography of the author’s works. Due to the specificity of the study, the co-authored publications are listed in a chronological order, not an alphabetical order of co-authors. In addition, compared to the standard bibliographical style adopted in the journal, the date of publication appears at the end of each bibliographic record in square brackets. Providing the date in this format follows the convention adopted on the SAO / NASA portal Astrophysics Data System and its enriched copy: “The Science Archive Facility” at the European Southern Observatory. In accordance with the conventions adopted in the aforementioned portals, the list of publications also includes two reviews of a co-authored monograph by P. Flin.

ESASky: A science-driven discovery portal for space-based astronomy missions

In the era of "big data" and with the advent of web 2.0 technologies, ESASky (http://sky.esa.int) aims at providing a modern and visual way to access astronomical science-ready data products and metadata. The main goal of the application is to simplify the interaction between the scientific community and the ever-growing amount of data collected over the past decades from the most important astronomy missions. The ESASky concept is to offer a complementary scientific application to the more-traditional table-oriented exploitation of astronomical data, by allowing a more natural and visual approach and enabling the exploration of astronomical objects across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. To fulfill this goal, ESASky provides a multiwavelength interface to a set of astronomy data from an increasing number of missions and surveys, with the intention of becoming the single-point of entry to perform visual analysis and cross-matching among different energy ranges. A lot of effort has been invested on the design of a user-friendly, responsive Graphical User Interface (GUI) by the definition and optimisation of algorithms running behind each visual feature offered. In this contribution, we describe in detail the design and solutions adopted for the technical challenges arising during the development. We present the data services and features implemented in the latest version of ESASky (v2.1), including a Mission Planning Tool to support current James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) planning, the possibility to search for observations of Solar System Objects (planets, comets and moons) taken by astronomy missions, the integration of the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) publication system in the ESASky GUI, and the retrieval of metadata and data products available within a specific region of the sky.