ESASky Credits

ESASky is developed at ESAC, Madrid, Spain, by the ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC), in particular by the following ESDC team members:

  • Henrik Norman, Phillip Matsson, Elena Puga, Erik Mellegård, Marcos López-Caniego, Javier Espinosa, Debbie Baines (product owner), Bruno Merín.

ESASky uses Aladin Lite, a lightweight sky atlas running in the browser, developed by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), Strasbourg Observatory, France. It also shows several HiPS mosaics produced by CDS and uses the hipsgen HiPS-generation software and the SIMBAD TAP service by CDS. ESASky uses OpenSeaDragon (with the DeepZoom format) to display the zoomable outreach images. ESASky uses the SsODNet service from the IMCCE to resolve solar system object names. 

We acknowledge the excellent support from CDS and from the expert science and technical staff at ESA for the creation of this service. In particular we acknowledge the following people:

  • Former ESASky team members: Fabrizio Giordano, Elena Racero, Mattias Wångblad, Alexandros Marantos, Andy Pollock, Jesús Salgado, Michael Rosa, Iñaki Ortiz de Landaluce, Ignacio Leon, Ricardo Vallés, Javier Castellanos, Sara Alberola, Belén López Martí, Elena Puga, Nuria Álvarez-Crespo, Thomas Fozzi, Raul Gutierrez, Pilar de Teodoro and Maria Henar Sarmiento.
  • CDS: Pierre Fernique, Thomas Boch, Anaïs Oberto, Matthieu Baumann, Caroline Bot and Mark Allen.
  • XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre: Pedro Rodríguez, Nora Loiseau, Maria Santos-Lleo, Matthias Ehle, Norbert Schartel and Elena Jiménez-Bailón.
  • INTEGRAL Science Operations Centre: Guillaume Belanger, Erik Kuulkers, Peter Kretschmar and Jari Kajava.
  • Planck Science Office: Marcos López-Caniego, Xavier Dupac and Jan Tauber.
  • Herschel Science Centre: Pedro García Lario, Eva Verdugo, Ivan Valtchanov, Miguel Sánchez-Portal, Pilar Esquej and Göran Pilbratt.
  • Gaia Science Operations Centre: Jos De Bruijne, Jorgo Bakker, Hector Canovas and Timo Prusti.
  • ESAC Science and Operations IT Unit: Alejandro Lorca, Roberto Prieto, Ruben Álvarez and the SITU team.
  • Centre for Astrobiology (CAB), ESAC: Enrique Solano, Carlos Rodrigo.
  • Euclid Science Centre: Bruno Altieri, John Hoar and René Laureijs.
  • HST: Antonella Nota, Paule Sonnentrucker, Jonas Haase (HST/ESO) and the Hubble/Webb Outreach team: Bethany Downer, Mahdi Zamani, Javier Enciso.
  • JWST: Anthony Marston, Marco Sirianni, Sarah Kendrew, Tim Rawle, Macarena García-Marín and Marcos López-Caniego.
  • Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC):  Daniel Durand, Brian Major, JJ Kavelaars, Patrick Dowler, Séverin Gaudet.
  • Johns Hopkins University: Tamás Budavári.
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech: Krzysztof Górski.
  • ISAS, JAXA: Ken Ebisawa.
  • Chandra, NASA: Pepi Fabbiano, Janet Evans, Raffaele D'Abrusco, Yulie Zografou and Arnold Rots.
  • IMCCE, Paris: Jérôme Berthier and Jonathan Normand (Solar system ephemeris and name resolver).
  • OCA, Nice: Benoit Carry.
  • Smithsonian/NASA ADS: Alberto Accomazzi, Michael J. Kurtz, Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma.
  • ESO: Alberto Micol, Felix Stoehr
  • China-VO, CAS: Chenzhou Cui, Shanshan Li, Dongwei Fan, Hanxi Yang.
  • MAST, STScI: Tom Donaldson.
  • Spitzer, IRSA: Steve Groom, Vandana Desai, Harry Teplitz
  • HEASARC: Tess Jaffe
  • ASTRON: Yan Grange, Mattia Mancini, Nico Vermaas
  • CHEOPS: Kate Isaak
  • CESAR and ESAC Communications Office: Beatriz Gonzalez, Sandra Benitez, Arantxa Alonso, Beatriz Arias
  • IceCube Neutrino Observatory: Marcos Santander, Claudio Kopper, Michael Larson, Juan Antonio Aguilar
  • eROSITA: Andrea Merloni, Jonas Haase, Mara Salvato, Jeremy Sanders, Susanne Friedrich, Zsofi Igo
  • LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Chris North
  • Astrolabe (ESA HQ Knowledge and Visitor Centre): Stefania Pandolfi, Joao Seixas, Ouno Creative: Josh Dawkins, Ellis Hudson
  • and more ESA colleagues from the Science Directorate: Mark McCaughrean, Victoria Grinberg 

This work also benefited from experience gained from projects supported by the ESA SCI-OO and SCI-OP research funding.

 

How to Acknowledge ESASky

If you have used ESASky for your research, please use the following acknowledgement:

This research has made use of ESASky, developed by the ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC) team and maintained alongside other ESA science mission's archives at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC, Madrid, Spain).

→ Giordano, F. et. al. (2018) A&C, 24, 97 and Baines, D. et. al. (2017) PASP, 129, 028001

 

We maintain a list of all publications that acknowledge the use of ESASky.

 
 
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