Conveners
Session 2: AI Session 1 (Discovery & Metadata)
- Shawn Polson
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Aidan Scharnikow, Mr Anthony Buonomo10/5/26, 11:00 AM1Agentic AI and LLM Applications in HeliophysicsTalk
Heliophysics papers frequently reference mission data informally rather than through formal citations, leaving data usage often untracked. We have created a pipeline that uses large language models to automatically extract data references from heliophysics papers. These data references consist of missions, instruments, and observed time ranges. For instance, a paper may describe using...
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Dr Disha Sardana (Heliophysics Data and Modeling Consortium)10/5/26, 11:15 AM1Agentic AI and LLM Applications in HeliophysicsTalk
Measuring the impact of a scientific mission depends on knowing when its data are used, by whom, and how often. For decades, DOIs have been used to track citations of authors' publications; a similar mechanism can make an observatory or instrument a citable resource that serves as a connection to the various outputs it produces. SPASE's observatory and instrument records could support this,...
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Dr Alisdair Davey (NSO)10/5/26, 11:30 AMAgentic AI and LLM Applications in HeliophysicsTalk
The Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO) indexes instruments spanning X-ray through radio wavelengths, yet discovery remains largely keyword-dependent — requiring users to know provider names and instrument codes in advance. We present a prototype semantic search layer built on top of VSO that replaces exact-match lookup with embedding-based similarity search, enabling researchers to find relevant...
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Ryan Cavanaugh (MIT Haystack Observatory)10/5/26, 11:45 AMAgentic AI and LLM Applications in HeliophysicsTalk
Since 1960, MIT Haystack Observatory has supported atmospheric and geospace research through long running observational programs and the Madrigal distributed database, which provides access to incoherent scatter radar, total electron content, Fabry Perot interferometer, and other datasets. These resources have contributed to a large scientific literature, but identifying relationships among...
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Enrique Rojas Villalba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)10/5/26, 12:00 PMAgentic AI and LLM Applications in HeliophysicsTalk
Scientific databases increasingly need to support more than data access. They also need to help researchers interpret measurements, understand prior uses of the data, reproduce published analyses, and identify new ways to reuse archived observations. This talk describes ongoing work around the Madrigal database aimed at building this broader layer of support. I will first describe recent...
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