IPAC Firefly package goes open source
Abstract
IPAC Firefly package has been developed in IRSA (NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive) in last six years. It is a software package utilizing state-of-the art AJAX technology to provide an interactive web user interface for astronomers. It has been used to build Spitzer Heritage Archive, WISE Image Service, Planck Visualization, PTF Image Service, and the new IRSA finder chart. It provides three major components: table display, FITS images visualization, and 2D plot. All three highly interactive components can work together using the same data model or separately to provide any combinations of interactivities among them. Firefly toolkits provide an easy way to put interactivities in an otherwise static web page. With a few lines of simple JavaScript embebded in a web page, Firefly toolkits can add manipulative functions to a static table, display a FITS image, or draw an XY 2D plot interactively.FIrefly will be in the GItHub soon.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #225
- Pub Date:
- January 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015AAS...22543406W