Luciano Nicastro

Position: First Researcher

Contact info

• Room: C-512
• Phone: +39 051 639 8778
• Email: luciano.nicastro@inaf.it

Personal info

• Orcid: 0000-0001-8534-6788

Curriculum vitae

My research interests include multi-wavelength study of isolated neutron stars, Gamma Ray Bursts, Gravitational Wave and Fast Radio Burst counterpart searches and study. Projects I am currently involved in, with various roles, include: REM, GAIA, Euclid, CTA, Grawita, ENGRAVE, Theseus, the Antola telescope, etc. The development of data management systems has been my main activity within several projects, both from ground and space, covering almost the whole energy spectrum. I manage several project servers used both as data storage and data processing systems. For example I developed and run the REM images archive system. I also manage several web services which make use of JavaScript webtools and the LAMP stack. I write websites either from scratch or using the Wordpress CMS. I am familiar with all the major programming languages and make use of relational databases since more than 20 years. Using MySQL and custom, open source code, in collaboration with Turin Observatory I made easily queryable any astronomical catalogue using various programming languages, including Fortran and IDL. I implemented and used sky catalogues indexed using HEALPix an HTM well before the VO became aware of them. A few links you might find of interest:

• TOCatsweb: Web-tool (VO-compliant) aimed at the visualisation and swift access to various catalogues of object detected in the optical and IR bands
• JS9, web-based FITS images viewer with direct access to the custom catalogues
• SkySats: Artificial satellites browser, with Earth and sky views
• Astronomy oriented Relational Database course
• The REM Data Archive
• The QSFit project reference and Archive
• DIF: Library and tools aimed at implementing a powerful indexing system for astronomical catalogues and other data with spherical coordinates, stored into MySQL / MariaDB databases
• SID: A more easy to install version of DIF which does need the DIF-provided storage engine
• AstroUDFs A set of handy astronomical tools for astronomical catalogues hosted on MySQL / MariaDB
• MCS: high level classes and functions to easily implement network and DB applications

Latest papers on ADS
(based on ORCID, see here how to claim missing papers)

1. A nebular origin for the persistent radio emission of fast radio bursts, Nature, 2024
2. The host galaxies of fast radio bursts, EAS2024, 2024
3. Euclid preparation. Observational expectations for redshift z<7 active galactic nuclei in the Euclid Wide and Deep surveys, arXiv e-prints, 2024
4. Euclid. III. The NISP Instrument, arXiv e-prints, 2024
5. Euclid. V. The Flagship galaxy mock catalogue: a comprehensive simulation for the Euclid mission, arXiv e-prints, 2024
6. Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission, arXiv e-prints, 2024
7. Boost recall in quasi-stellar object selection from highly imbalanced photometric datasets. The reverse selection method, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2024
8. VizieR Online Data Catalog: Boost recall in QSO selection (Calderone+, 2024), VizieR Online Data Catalog, 2024
9. EMU Detection of a Large and Low Surface Brightness Galactic SNR G288.8-6.3, The Astronomical Journal, 2023
10. Simultaneous and panchromatic observations of the fast radio burst FRB 20180916B, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023

Contributions to this website

1. SatSky [14/05/2021]
2. TOCats catalogues [26/02/2021]