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
- Topcat tutorial & exercises
- Exercise II: Confirmation of a supernova candidate
- VizieR & Simbad exercise: Study of exoplanets
- Tutorial: Simulation Databases (Cosmic Web)
- TAP/ADQL exercises (Solutions: TAP/ADQL solutions)
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.