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Overview
gamma-sky.net is a novel interactive website designed for exploring the gamma-ray sky.
It is geared towards both professional astronomers and the general public.
We've overlaid survey images of varying energies onto a three-dimensional sky map, then pinpointed gamma-ray source catalog data onto the sphere. This setup allows for easily navigating the sky and comparing data across catalogs. Our website allows users to quickly browse or deeply investigate a source.
We have made all of our data, from catalogs to images, freely available to everyone. Our content is downloadable from our webpage. (To be implemented)
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Gamma-ray images displayed on a sphere visualization
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Pan and zoom
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Powerful search tools to locate objects by name, association or coordinate position
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Export and share a certain view of the sky map
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Toggle and view specific catalog layers and sky images
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Informative pop-ups over each source
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The Gammapy and Astropy Python packages were used to make scripts that generate catalog and map data.
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The architecture of our static webpage is organized with the Angular 2 framework. Using Angular, we've compiled the site into a single-page app.
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The sphere interface was created and the maps were overlaid using the Aladin Lite tool.
Our website is a new project, having been deployed very recently in early June 2016.
gamma-sky.net was presented at the Gamma 2016 conference in July 2016. The conference proceeding can be viewed here: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4969002.
Future plans involve implementing many new features, like Python-generated light curves and other visualizations.
We continue to expand our website and its content through collaborations and feedback.
If you would like to contribute data or code, or simply leave us comments and feature requests, contact Christoph Deil or Arjun Voruganti. We would greatly appreciate it!