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 and Gamma Ray Bursts, with GW and FRB counterpart searches added to the list in the last years. Projects I am currently involved in, with various roles, include: REM, GAIA, Euclid, CTA, Grawita. I also participate, mainly as a consultant/collaborator, to various other projects involving ground and space observatories: Antola and Savelli-Lilio optical telescopes, Theseus, and more. 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 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)
- The probabilistic random forest applied to the QUBRICS survey: improving the selection of high-redshift quasars with synthetic data, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022
- A search for high-energy counterparts to extragalactic fast radio burst sources with Insight-HXMT, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 2022
- CTA – the World's largest ground-based gamma-ray observatory, 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 2022
- Deep Upper Limit on the Optical Emission during a Hard X-Ray Burst from the Magnetar SGR J1935+2154, The Astrophysical Journal, 2022
- Multi-messenger and transient astrophysics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, arXiv e-prints, 2021
- Hoinga: a supernova remnant discovered in the SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey eRASS1, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021
- Multiwavelength Observations of Fast Radio Bursts, Universe, 2021
- Observational constraints on the optical and near-infrared emission from the neutron star-black hole binary merger candidate S190814bv, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020
- GRB 201020B: follow-up observations with Savelli Telescope, GRB Coordinates Network, 2020
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: iz photometry of S190814bv ctp candidates (Ackley+, 2020), VizieR Online Data Catalog, 2020
Contributions to this website
- SatSky [14/05/2021]
- TOCats catalogues [26/02/2021]