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VO Day at Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)

This one-day workshop took place on November 7, 2012 in the seminar room of the AIP. It provided an introduction to the Virtual Observatory, where every participant was guided through hands-on sessions to get accustomed to virtual observatory tools like Topcat, Aladin or the CDS Portal.

The pictures are now available on this page: Pictures of the VO Day

Programme

  • 09:15 - 09:45 VO Introduction, Overview VO Tools (pdf, 4.5 MB)
  • 09:45 - 10:00 Topcat - analysis and manipulation of catalogues and tables
  • 10:00 - 10:30 Exercise Session I: cone search, crossmatches and visualization
  • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - 12:30 Exercise Session II: simple spectral access with Topcat and SPLAT
  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
  • 13:30 - 14:00 The CDS portal: working with Simbad, VizieR and Aladin (pdf, 1 MB)
  • 14:00 - 15:00 Simulation Databases Talk (pdf, 21 MB)
  • 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
  • 15:30 - 16:30 Accessing data archives via TAP and ADQL Talk (pdf, 0.4 MB)
  • 16:30 - 17:00 Summary & Discussion

The program of the VO workshop is also available as PDF.

Preparation

We encourage everyone to bring his/her own laptop and install the following software:

Tutorials and exercise sheets

Tutors

The workshop will be held by Janine Fohlmeister?, Kristin Riebe and Florian Rothmaier?.

Target group

  • students
  • PhD students
  • post-docs
  • everyone else who is interested

Goal

After the workshop, every participant should know ...

  • the manifold ways to retrieve data from the VO
  • how to perform a query across multiple catalogues
  • how to exchange data between different VO tools
  • how to perform a cross-match of data from different tables

Location

For details how to get to AIP, please have a look at AIP location. The seminar room is located in the building Schwarzschildhaus in Babelsberg, close to the information desk.

Registration

Please register by sending an email to: Kristin Riebe, kriebe@aip.de. Please do so as soon as possible, since the number of participants is limited.

Contact

For additional questions please contact janine@ari.uni-heidelberg.de and kriebe@aip.de.