About Firefly

Firefly is a framework of archive components, built by IPAC . It provides an interactive web user interface for astronomers. It provides three major components: a table display, FITS/HiPS image visualization, and 2D plots. All three highly interactive components can work together using the same data model or separately to provide any combination of interactivity among them. Firefly components provide an easy way to add interactivity to an otherwise static web page. Firefly development by IPAC at Caltech has been supported by NASA, principally through IRSA , and by the National Science Foundation, through the Vera C. Rubin Observatory . Firefly is open-source software, available on GitHub (Caltech-IPAC/firefly ) and DockerHub (ipac/firefly ).

The documentation here describes the components in generic terms. If you have specific questions about a specific implementation of Firefly, you may have to consult the documentation specifically associated with that implementation.