CHILE2014

Final code for University of Chile-Harvard 2014 Exchange Workshop on big data in astronomy.

List of files & brief descriptions:

GROUP 1

GROUP 2

GROUP 3

See https://github.com/lgarrison/chile2014-group3/blob/master/README.md for a detailed description of how to use the files below.

• search_objects.py: performs a conesearch around a given object and retrieves information from all catalogs in databases NED, Simbad, NRAO, UKIDSS, Vizier.
• search_objects_parallel.py: for running search_objects.py in parallel.
• parallelize.sh: to execute search_objects_parallel.py.