Luciano Nicastro
Ruolo: Primo ricercatore
Contatti
- Stanza: C-512
- Telefono: +39 051 639 8778
- Email: luciano.nicastro@inaf.it
Informazioni personali
- 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
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