Hydra Documents

Hydra Project Documents and Presentations

• AISRP Investigator Presentation, May 2008.
• Hydra ``Quad chart'', Jan.10,2007: .pdf or .ppt
• AISRP Annual Presentation, October 2006.
• HYDRA: A New Paradigm for Astrophysical Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (contd), AISRP proposal, July 2005.
  (Awarded 3 years of funding; 15 March 2006 - 15 March 2009.)
  • Hydra 2005 Proposal (.pdf)
• HYDRA: A New Paradigm for Astrophysical Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis, AISRP proposal, March 2004.
  (Awarded 1 year of limited funding to refine the project.)

Publications by Hydra team members

`Aspects' indicates which of the Hydra domains the paper addresses:
Sources, Mission/Instruments, Visualization, Fitting/Statistics, High-Performance, and Implementation

Aspects S M V F P I	Title	Authors and Date	References, etc.
S - - F P I	``Parallelizing the XSTAR Phtoionization Code''	Noble, M.S. et al. 2009	ADASS XVIII, C.06; and arXiv 0901.1582
S M V F - I	``Simulation and Fitting of Multi-Dimensional X-ray Data''	Dewey, D. and M.S. Noble 2009	ADASS XVIII, A.11 .pdf
S M V F P I	``Beyond XSPEC: Towards Highly Configurable Analysis''	Noble, M.S, and Nowak, M.A. 2008	PASP 120, 821; and arXiv 0806.0560
- - - - P I	``Getting more from your multicore: Exploiting OpenMP From An Open Source Numerical Scripting Language''	Noble, M.S. 2008	in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience ; and arXiv[cs.DC] 0706.4048
S - - - - -	``Chandra HETG Spectra of SN 1987A at 20 years''	Dewey, D., et al. 2008	ApJ 676, L131; and arXiv 0802.2340
- - - - P I	``Getting more from your multicore: Exploiting OpenMP for Astronomy''	Noble, M.S. 2007	arXiv, ADASS 0710.4075
S - V - - -	``Cas A: The bright X-ray Knots and Oxygen Emission''	Dewey, D., T. DeLaney, and J.S. Lazendic 2006	RevMex Ser. Conf. astro-ph/0611908
S - - - - I	``Models for Nonthermal Photon Spectra''	Houck, J.C. and G.E. Allen 2006	ApJ Sup astro-ph/0607574 Module web page
- - - P -	``Using the Parallel Virtual Machine for Everyday Analysis''	Noble, M.S. et al. 2005	ADASS XV, Madrid astro-ph/0510688 Module web page
- - - F P I	``Analyzing the Cas A Megasecond in Less than a Megasecond''	Davis, J.E. et al. 2005	ADASS XIV, Pasadena, Oct. 2004

Publications by Others using Hydra Software

Aspects S M V F P I	Title	Authors and Date	References, etc.
S M V - - -	``Volumetric 3D Modeling of the X-ray Emission Region within the Planetary Nebula BD+30 3639''	Yu, Y.S., et al. 2009	AAS 213th, poster .pdf
S - - - - -	``A Line-Of-Sight Galaxy Cluster Collision: Simulated X-Ray Observations''	Zuhone, J.A., et al. 2008	ApJ submitted; arXiv 0808.0930
- - - - P I	``Constraining Jet/Disk Geometry and Radiative Processes In Stellar Black Holes XTE J1118+480 and GX 339-4''	Maitra, D., et al. 2008	MNRAS submitted

Of course Hydra is not ``the only game in town'', check out what others are up to: Hydra-Related publications by others