Download the Spanish VO

The Spanish Virtual Observatory
Enrique Solano Márquez
SVO Principal Investigator
LAEX – CAB / INTA-CSIC
IVOA Interop., Garching, Nov 2009
Background Information
• Member of IVOA since June 2004.
http://svo.laeff.inta.es
• Aims:
• Coordination of the VO-activities of the Spanish
institutes.
• Contact-point for the international VO-projects.
• Structure:
• 9 FTEs.
• Network at national level: 28 depart. /labs. 112 people.
Lines of work
• Development and management of VO-compliant archives
• Theory in the VO
• VO science
• Data Mining
• Education and Outreach
Astronomical Archives in the VO
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O
Astronomical Archives in the VO
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O
Theory
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O
Theory
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O
• 11 / 24 theoretical
services are provided by
SVO
• Source:Euro-VO
census.
Theory
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O
Theory
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O
VO-Science
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O
• Key issue for the Spanish VO.
• Goal: Liaison between SVO and research groups who have
identified scientific drivers to motivate the adoption of a Virtual
Observatory methodology in their science cases.
SVO:
• SVO role:
One third (7/22) in
• Evaluation of the science case from the VO point
of two
view.
the last
years.
• Provision of information about the existing VO tools.
• If needed, develop new tools.
VO-Science
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O
• Easy access to multi-λ info.
• Easy access to models (S3).
VO-Science
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O
• Discovery of exotic objects. Access to large databases
• 2MASS, SDSS, UKIDSS, IPHAS,…
Data Mining
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O
• OMC
• COROT
• GAIA
• Supervised classification
• Clustering
• Knowledge discovery in SOHO and
CLUSTER.
• Data Mining in SDSS: 3-D searches
(position and velocity) of isolated
galaxies.
Education
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O
Outreach
Archives, Theory, VO-Science, DataMining, E&O