A Cross-matching Service for Data Center of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory

Cross-matching is a key technique to achieve fusion of multi-band astronomical catalogs. Due to different equipment such as various astronomical telescopes, the existence of measurement errors, and proper motions of the celestial bodies, the same celestial object will have different positions in different catalogs, making it difficult to integrate multi-band or full-band astronomical data. In this study, we propose an online cross-matching method based on pseudo-spherical indexing techniques and develop a service combining with high performance computing system(Taurus) to improve cross-matching efficiency, which is designed for the Data Center of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory. Specifically, we use Quad Tree Cube to divide the spherical blocks of the celestial object and map the 2D space composed of R.A. and decl. to 1D space and achieve correspondence between real celestial objects and spherical patches. Finally, we verify the performance of the service using Gaia 3 and PPMXL catalogs. Meanwhile, we send the matching results to VO tools-Topcat and Aladin respectively to get visual results. The experimental results show that the service effectively solves the speed bottleneck problem of crossmatching caused by frequent I/O, and significantly improves the retrieval and matching speed of massive astronomical data.

Investigation of Traffic Classification Applied to an Astronomical Data Transmission Network of the XAO Using Deep Learning

A telecommunication network used for the transmission of astronomical observation data,telescope remote control and other astronomical research purposes is a critical infrastructure.The monitoring and analysis of network traffic,which help improve the network performance and the utilization of network resources,are a challenging task.The accurate identification of the astronomical data traffic will effectively improve transmission efficiency.In this paper,a classification method applied to types of traffic containing astronomical data using deep learning is proposed.The advantages of a convolutional neural network model in image classification are exploited to classify types of traffic containing astronomical data.The objective is to identify the mixed traffic in the network and accurately identify types of traffic containing astronomical data.The effectiveness of the model in improving classification accuracy is also discussed.Actual traffic data captured by Tcpdump and Wireshark are tested,and the experimental results indicate that the proposed method can accurately classify types of traffic containing astronomical data.

Simulation analysis of a method to improve data-transmission performance of Nanshan 26 m Radio Telescope based on Software-Defined Networks

Data Center of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory(XAO-DC)commenced operating in 2015,and provides services including archiving,releasing and retrieving precious astronomical data collected by the Nanshan 26 m Radio Telescope(NSRT)over the years,and realises the open sharing of astronomical observation data.The observation data from NSRT are transmitted to XAO-DC 100 km away through dedicated fiber for long-term storage.With the continuous increase of data,the static architecture of the current network cannot meet NSRT data-transmission requirements due to limited network bandwidth.To get high-speed data-transmission using the existing static network architecture,a method for reconstruction data-transmission network using Software-Defined Networks(SDN)is proposed.Benefit from the SDN’s data and control plane separation,and open programmable,combined with the Mininet simulation platform for experiments,the TCP throughput(of single thread)was improved by~24.7%,the TCP throughput(of multi threads)was improved by~9.8%,~40.9%,~35.5%and~11.7%.Compared with the current network architecture,the Latency was reduced by~63.2%.