RAPID: Virtual Reality Cyberinfrastructure Enabling Data Visualization, Exploration, and Collaboration Among Distant Individuals

RAPID：虚拟现实网络基础设施支持远距离个体之间的数据可视化、探索和协作

• 批准号: 2037297
• 负责人: Danny Milisavljevic
• 金额: $ 6.68万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2037297&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Virtual; Reality; Cyberinfrastructure; Enabling

The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced obstacles to many areas of astronomical research, especially topics requiring access to shared facilities and driven by interaction between scientists to interpret complex multi-dimensional data. A research team at Purdue University will accelerate production of the Virtual Reality (VR) data visualization platform Collaborative Astronomy VR, which leverages recent advancements in high-powered consumer hardware and cloud-based multi-user server architecture. Building this platform will globally connect individuals isolated by COVID-19 restrictions and provide virtual environments where they can actively engage with complex data and representations. The distributed application will be tailored for immersive visualization of supernova explosions and other topics in astronomy, but will have flexibility for potential use in other fields requiring visualization and interaction with 3D data environments. The work will contribute to a graduate student thesis and provide opportunities for undergraduate students, who will actively help develop and showcase the technology. A small instructional lab for physics and astronomy classes will also be created.The platform will be appropriate to visualize, explore, and collaborate with data made from observations and simulations of astronomical objects and phenomena. The flexible data ingestion pipeline will support multi-dimensional formats common to astronomical data, and will have clean up and optimization procedures to ensure data fidelity and fluid visualizations. This project fulfills the urgent need for scientists to navigate complex, multi-dimensional data collaboratively with distant individuals via scalable multiuser connectivity and broad platform compatibility. Collaborative Astronomy VR enables rapid and intuitive exploration of multidimensional data with on-the-fly scaling, rotation, and changing of perspective among many participants connected online simultaneously.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

新冠肺炎疫情给天文研究的许多领域带来了障碍，特别是需要共享设施的课题，以及科学家之间解释复杂多维数据的互动。普渡大学的一个研究团队将加快虚拟现实(VR)数据可视化平台Collaborative Astronomy VR的生产，该平台利用高性能消费硬件和基于云的多用户服务器架构的最新进展。构建这一平台将在全球范围内将被新冠肺炎限制隔离的个人联系起来，并提供虚拟环境，在其中他们可以积极参与复杂的数据和表示。这个分布式应用程序将为超新星爆炸和天文学其他主题的沉浸式可视化而量身定做，但将具有灵活性，可用于其他需要可视化和与3D数据环境交互的领域。这项工作将为研究生论文做出贡献，并为本科生提供机会，他们将积极帮助开发和展示这项技术。还将创建一个用于物理和天文学课程的小型教学实验室。该平台将适合可视化、探索和协作来自对天文物体和现象的观测和模拟的数据。灵活的数据接收管道将支持天文数据常见的多维格式，并将有清理和优化程序，以确保数据保真度和流体可视化。该项目满足了科学家的迫切需求，即通过可扩展的多用户连接和广泛的平台兼容性，与远程个人协作导航复杂的多维数据。协作天文学虚拟现实能够快速、直观地探索多维数据，并在多个同时在线的参与者之间进行即时缩放、旋转和视角更改。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Far-UV and Optical Emissions from Three Very Large Supernova Remnants Located at Unusually High Galactic Latitudes

位于异常高银河纬度的三个非常大的超新星遗迹的远紫外线和光学发射

• DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0ada
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: The Astrophysical Journal
• 作者: Fesen, Robert A.;Drechsler, Marcel;Weil, Kathryn E.;Strottner, Xavier;Raymond, John C.;Rupert, Justin;Milisavljevic, Dan;Subrayan, Bhagya M.;di Cicco, Dennis;Walker, Sean
• 通讯作者: Walker, Sean

The Center of Expansion and Age of the Oxygen-rich Supernova Remnant 1E 0102.2-7219

富氧超新星遗迹1E 0102.2-7219的膨胀中心和年龄

• DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abe2a7
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: The Astrophysical Journal
• 作者: Banovetz, John;Milisavljevic, Dan;Sravan, Niharika;Fesen, Robert A.;Patnaude, Daniel J.;Plucinsky, Paul P.;Blair, William P.;Weil, Kathryn E.;Morse, Jon A.;Margutti, Raffaella
• 通讯作者: Margutti, Raffaella

Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motion Measurements of Supernova Remnant N132D: Center of Expansion and Age

哈勃太空望远镜对超新星遗迹 N132D 的自行测量：膨胀中心和年龄

• DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acb8b6
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: The Astrophysical Journal
• 作者: Banovetz, John;Milisavljevic, Dan;Sravan, Niharika;Weil, Kathryn E.;Subrayan, Bhagya;Fesen, Robert A.;Patnaude, Daniel J.;Plucinsky, Paul P.;Law, Charles J.;Blair, William P.
• 通讯作者: Blair, William P.

3D mapping of the Crab Nebula with SITELLE – I. Deconvolution and kinematic reconstruction

• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa4046
• 发表时间: 2021-01
• 作者: T. Martin;D. Milisavljevic;Laurent Drissen D'epartement de physique;D. d'optique;Universit'e Laval;Qc

The dust mass in Cassiopeia A from infrared and optical line flux differences

• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab932
• 发表时间: 2021-03
• 期刊: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 影响因子: 4.8
• 作者: M. Niculescu-Duvaz;M. Barlow;A. Bevan;D. Milisavljevic;I. D. Looze