CoRTecS

Detail

The core facility

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Earth and space sciences Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg

  • Head Manager of the core facility Allen ALLEN
  • Scientifical Manager Mark ALLEN
  • Technical Manager Pierre FERNIQUE
  • UMR 7550 - ObAS / Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory
  • CNRS, UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG
  • Central campus : Historical
  • Established in an unic site
  • Collaborations of research
    • with the academic community
    • to the socio-economic world
  • Affiliated institution of administrative supervision
    • CNRS
    • UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG
CDS

Strasbourg astronomical Data Centre (CDS – Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg) is a scientific Research Infrastructure dedicated to collection and worldwide distribution of astronomical reference data. The CDS is part of the Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg.

The CDS develops services that are widely used by the international astronomical community: SIMBAD, the reference database for the nomenclature and bibliography of astronomical objects (outside the solar system), VizieR, the reference service for astronomical catalogues and tables published in academic journals, the Aladin service (image database, applications and Virtual Observatory portal), the CDS X-Match large astronomical catalogue cross-correlation service, and the CDS Portal. Access to the services is via the interactive CDS web site and via multiple programmatic interfaces, which are all heavily used by the community with ~2 million queries per day. The CDS is also a major actor in the development and provision of services to the astronomical Virtual Observatory framework.

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Certifications and accreditations

Expertises

Scientific expertise

  • Astrophysics research
  • Astronomical catalogues
  • Astronomical coordinate systems
  • Bibliographic expertise
  • Astronomy nomenclature and semantics
  • Astronomy informatics and data science
  • Open Science and data sharing

Technical expertise

  • Astronomy specific information systems
  • Databases
  • Big Data
  • Bibliographic processing
  • Documentation and data stewardship
  • Applications and Web solutions
  • Interoperability
  • International standards for FAIR data
  • Development
  • Scientific Service Operations
  • R&D

Resources

Other kinds of rooms

  • Computer room

Software resources / Data bases

  • Postgres
  • Home made code

Examples of service delivery

  • Simbad - The world reference database for the identification of astronomical objects
  • VizieR - The catalogue service for the CDS reference collection of astronomical catalogues and tables published in academic journals
  • Aladin - The interactive software sky atlas for access, visualization and analysis of astronomical images, surveys, catalogues, databases and related data
  • X-Match - Catalogue cross-matching service

Recent collaborative projects

Gaia

Gaia

Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy.

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ESCAPE

ESCAPE

ESCAPE is the collaborative cluster of European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) facilities in the area of astronomy- and accelerator-based particle physics in order to implement a functional link...

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ASTERICS

ASTERICS

ASTERICS brought together the astronomy, astrophysics and particle astrophysics communities to address their common challenges

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Core facility partners