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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