In a previous semester ADACS conducted a code audit for the Fireballs in the sky app (see here). This audit resulted in a detailed plan for all the work needed to reimplement the app, and to incorporate new features. In short, the goals for this semester were to use React Native to create a 3d planetarium viewer that would allow users to trace the trajectory of a meteor, indicate the brightness and colour, and make notes about fragmentation and sounds.
New features for this app include:
This project ran over two semesters (2024B and 2025A).
Check out some of our other projects.
Enabling new science on the Huntsman Telescope by implementing a high frame rate "move mode" observing mode.
ADACS developed a web-based viewer for the 4HS team to quickly visualise and evaluate survey data, generating HiPS data on demand and helping identify and fix data issues, improving survey quality.
Parallel Bilby is a gravitational wave inference code that was running inefficiently. ADACS analysed the code to identify bottlenecks and gave recommendations on how to improve its performance.