This paper describes the Pegasus framework that can be used to map complex scientific workflows onto distributed resources. Pegasus enables users to represent the workflows at an abstract level without needing to worry about the particulars of the target execution systems. The paper describes general issues in mapping applications and the functionality of Pegasus. We present the results of improving application performance through workflow restructuring which clusters multiple tasks in a workflow into single entities. A real-life astronomy application is used as the basis for the study.
We describe the contents and functionality of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, a
database and tool set funded by NASA to support astronomers in the exoplanet
community. The current content of the database includes interactive tables
containing properties of all published exoplanets, Kepler planet candidates,
threshold-crossing events, data validation reports and target stellar
parameters, light curves from the Kepler and CoRoT missions and from several
ground-based surveys, and spectra and radial velocity measurements from the
literature. Tools provided to work with these data include a transit ephemeris
predictor, both for single planets and for observing locations, light curve
viewing and normalization utilities, and a periodogram and phased light curve
service. The archive can be accessed at
http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Publications of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific, 4 figure
We present new low-resolution (R ~ 250) 1.0-2.4 pm spectra for 13 red dwarf stars. The sample size is increased to 16 by including other published infrared spectra. New, as well as published, red spectra are presented for 10 of these 16 stars, and new and published VRIJHKLL' photometry is also presented. Both halo and disk stars are included in the sample, which covers a range of spectral type from dMO to dM6.5. We derive bolometric luminosities and bolometric corrections from the observational data, finding good agreement with earlier results for the disk stars. We fit synthetic spectra generated by Allard & Hauschildt's state-of-the-art model atmospheres to the observed spectra. Although some discrepancies remain between the theoretical and observed spectra, we find that the molecular features give a consistent value for effective temperature across the entire observed wavelength range. The 7^ values and radii derived, and their dependency on metallicity, are in agreement with the most recent structural models of low-mass stars, removing the long-standing discrepancy between the observed and calculated locations of such stars in the H-R diagram, at least for stars more massive than 0.1 M®.
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