Introduction
A high-speed, performant data exploration webapp for astronomy, built for SDSS-V.
Highlights#
- Blazing fast cross-filtering, powered by
vaex
. - Dynamic, interactive plotting, powered by
Bokeh
. - Modular support for various data releases
- Download custom summary outputs direct from the app
- Share your dashboard layout with others via simple JSON
- Modular support for various data releases
About#
The Explorer is SDSS-V's interface for accessing and exploring Milky Way Mapper stellar parameters provided by Astra for SDSS-V targets. The Explorer is designed to provide a high-speed interface for aggregated statistics and visualizations of filtered Subsets of the SDSS-V database.
Explorer is developed by SDSS-V, using solara
, fastapi
,vaex
, and plotly
. Explorer was developed and designed by Riley Thai, and is maintained by the SDSS-V Data Visualization Team.
Note
The examples and screenshots in these docs may reference the best
Astra summary catalog file. This file has now been named mwmLite
. In the live dashboard you will see reference to the mwmlite
dataset. This is the same as best
in this documentation.
Get started with our examples:
- Example: creating a HR diagram
- Example: selecting sources from Gaia
- Example: selecting a carton
- Example: comparing flags and datasets
- Example: getting your data out
- User guide
And see some more documentation at:
Explorer and these documents were written, designed, and primarily developed by Riley Thai.