Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature

Chen, Xi; Schmitz, Marion; Mazzarella, J. M.; Wu, Xiuqin; Eyken, J. C. van; Accomazzi, Alberto; Akeson, Rachel; Allen, M. G.; Beaton, Rachael L.; Berriman, G. Bruce; W., Boyle, Andrew; Brouty, M.; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Ciardi, David R.; Cook, D.; D’Abrusco, R.; Ebert, Rick; Frayer, Cren; Fulton, B. J.; Gelino, Christopher R.; Hélou, G.; Henderson, Calen B.; Howell, Justin; Kim, Joyce; Landais, Gilles; Lo, Tak; Loup, C.; Madore, Barry F.; Monari, Giacomo; Muench, August; Oberto, A.; Ocvirk, Pierre; Peek, J. E. G.; Perret, Emmanuelle; Pevunova, O.; Ramírez, Solange; Rebull, L. M.; Shemmer, Ohad; Smale, A. P.; Tam, Raymond; Terek, Scott; Orsow, Doug Van; Vannier, Patricia; Wang, Shin-Ywan

doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ac6268

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“…Challenges encountered while constructing the NED-LVS, as well as future improvements as new data become available, point to the importance of following best practices when publishing redshifts and other measurements (Chen et al 2022). This includes listing accurate and meaningful uncertainty estimates for redshifts, with a realistic number of significant figures, and clearly flagging unreliable redshifts due to low signal-to-noise, contamination in the aperture, limitations of photometric redshift techniques or model-fitting assumptions, etc.…”

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Completeness of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) Local Volume Sample

Cook,

Mazzarella,

Helou

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We introduce the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) Local Volume Sample (NED-LVS), a subset of ∼1.9 million objects with distances out to 1000 Mpc. We use UV and IR fluxes available in NED from all-sky surveys to derive physical properties, and estimate the completeness relative to the expected local luminosity density. The completeness relative to near-IR luminosities (which traces a galaxy’s stellar mass) is roughly 100% at D < 30 Mpc and remains moderate (70%) out to 300 Mpc. For brighter galaxies (≳L *), NED-LVS is ∼100% complete out to ∼400 Mpc. When compared to other local Universe samples (GLADE and HECATE), all three are ∼100% complete below 30 Mpc. At distances beyond ∼80 Mpc, NED-LVS is more complete than both GLADE and HECATE by ∼10%–20%. NED-LVS is the underlying sample for the NED gravitational-wave follow-up service (NED-GWF), which provides prioritized lists of host candidates for GW events within minutes of alerts issued by the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration. We test the prioritization of galaxies in the volume of GW170817 by three physical properties, where we find that both stellar mass and inverse specific star formation rate place the correct host galaxy in the top 10. In addition, NED-LVS can be used for a wide variety of other astrophysical studies: galaxy evolution, star formation, large-scale structure, galaxy environments, and more. The data in NED are updated regularly, and NED-LVS will be updated concurrently. Consequently, NED-LVS will continue to provide an increasingly complete sample of galaxies for a multitude of astrophysical research areas for years to come.

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Completeness of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) Local Volume Sample

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Helou

et al. 2023

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“…There are significant benefits to the scientific community by investing effort into ensuring that published data follows best practices (Chen et al 2022). While some of these best practices are very widespread (e.g., including uncertainties on all measured quantities), they remain nonuniversal (e.g., Kim et al 2016 reported RMs with no uncertainties); other best practices are much more uncommon, such as including important observation metadata (e.g., observation dates, which we found in only approximately one-fourth of published RM catalogs).…”

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RMTable2023 and PolSpectra2023: Standards for Reporting Polarization and Faraday Rotation Measurements of Radio Sources

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Gaensler²,

Hutschenreuter³

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Faraday rotation measures (RMs) have been used for many studies of cosmic magnetism, and in most cases having more RMs is beneficial for those studies. This has lead to the development of RM surveys that have produced large catalogs, as well as meta-catalogs collecting RMs from many different publications. However, it has been difficult to take full advantage of all of these RMs, as the individual catalogs have been published in many different places, and in many different formats. In addition, the polarization spectra used to determine these RMs are rarely published, limiting the ability to reanalyze data as new methods or additional observations become available. We propose a standard convention for RM catalogs, RMTable2023, and a standard for source-integrated polarized spectra of radio sources, PolSpectra2023. These standards are intended to maximize the value and utility of these data for researchers and to make them easier to access. To demonstrate the use of the RMTable2023 standard, we have produced a consolidated catalog of 55,819 RMs collected from 42 published catalogs.

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“…we have for the object. All names should start with "J" when used in the text (as perChen et al 2022), but are not listed as such here just for space considerations.…”

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Young Stellar Object Candidates in IC 417

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IC 417 is in the Galactic plane, and likely part of the Aur OB2 association; it is ∼2 kpc away. Stock 8 is one of the densest cluster constituents; off of it to the east, there is a “nebulous stream” (NS) that is dramatic in the infrared (IR). We have assembled a list of literature-identified young stellar objects (YSOs), new candidate YSOs from the NS, and new candidate YSOs from IR excesses. We vetted this list via inspection of the images, spectral energy distributions (SEDs), and color–color/color–magnitude diagrams. We placed the 710 surviving YSOs and candidate YSOs in ranked bins, nearly two-thirds of which have more than 20 points defining their SEDs. The lowest-ranked bins include stars that are confused, or likely carbon stars. There are 503 in the higher-ranked bins; half are SED Class III, and ∼40% are SED Class II. Our results agree with the literature in that we find that the NS and Stock 8 are at about the same distance from Earth (as are the rest of the YSOs), and that the NS is the youngest region, with Stock 8 being a little older. We do not find any evidence for an age spread within the NS, consistent with the idea that the star formation trigger came from the north. We do not find that the other literature-identified clusters here are as young as either the NS or Stock 8; at best, they are older than Stock 8, and they may not all be legitimate clusters.

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Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Completeness of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) Local Volume Sample

Completeness of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) Local Volume Sample

RMTable2023 and PolSpectra2023: Standards for Reporting Polarization and Faraday Rotation Measurements of Radio Sources

Young Stellar Object Candidates in IC 417

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