AGENDA, session 2 (Tuesday): VO miniworkshop

Tuesday 29th.
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Chair: Enrique Solano

• Purpose
  

The Virtual Observatory (VO) is opening up new ways of exploiting the huge amount of data provided by the ever-growing number of ground-based and space facilities, as well as by computer simulations. The goals of the School are to expose participants to the variety of VO tools and services available today so that they can use them efficiently for their own research.

• School format

To achieve these goals, VO experts will lecture and tutor the participants on the usage of such tools. Real life examples of scientific applications will be given. Participants are invited to propose a science case they would like to try to implement with VO tools.

• Important Note:

It is important to have installed beforehand the VO-tools to be in the School, namely:

1. ALADIN (Web start recommended)
2. TOPCAT (Web start recommended)
3. VOSED (Web server)
4. VOSpec (Web start recommended)
5. VOSA (Web server)
6. STITLS (jar file)
   

• Useful information

1. Where can I find information on VO standards?: here
2. Where can I find information on VO tools?: here
3. Where can I find information on VO cases?: here
4. Where can I find information on VO refereed papers?: here
   

• Program
  

- 09:00h- 09:30h The Virtual Observatory: Overview (E. Solano, 25'+5')

- 09:30h-11:00h VO science case #1: Discovery of brown dwarfs mining 2MASS and SDSS
- VO-tools: Aladin, TOPCAT
- Tutor: Miriam Aberasturi

- 11:00h-11:30h Coffee break

- 11:30h-13:00h VO science case #2 Classifying the SEDs of Herbig Ae/Be stars
- VO-tools: VOSED, VOSpec
- Tutor: Francisco Jiménez

-13:00h-14:30 Lunch

- 14:30h-16:00h VO science case #3: From SED fitting to Age estimation: The case of Collinder 69
- VO-tools: VOSA
- Tutor: Enrique Solano

• Data for the usecase:

1. vosa_usecase1.txt
2. vosa_usecase2.txt
3. vosa_usecase3.txt
4. vosa_usecase3b.txt
   

- 16:00h-16:30h Coffe break

- 16:30h-17:30h A bit of everything session

• Comments and questions about the present and future of Virtual Observatories
• Questions about the science cases #1, #2, #3
• Science cases proposed by the tutors
• Science cases proposed by the participants.