Abstract

The Time Series Center

Pavlos Protopapas (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics )

The Time Series Center is an interdisciplinary effort dedicated to creating the world's largest database for astronomical and other time series and developing algorithms to understand various aspects of those time series. The partnership of the data center and the analysis effort makes discoveries of new and rare variability phenomena, and large scale studies of known phenomena possible. We describe in this paper the data resident now in the database and the plan for the near future. We describe the architecture behind the data center, JSON based web services that power the internal and external use of the database. We finally report on the algorithms developed and science results already obtained using the resources of the data center.

Mode of presentation: poster