VO Workshop at the Cosmology School in Krakow 2018
This VO Day will take part on Saturday July 14th, 2018
This course provides a basic introduction to the Virtual Observatory. The focus will be on access and analysis of table data, images and spectra. Participants will get to use Virtual Observatory tools like Topcat, Aladin, Splat and ADQL in hands-on sessions.
Please install the software we will use in the course in advance. All of these require Java to be installed on your machine. If you have problems during installation, don't hesitate to contact us.
You will need a laptop/desktop and an internet connection.
Schedule
09:30 Introduction to the VO
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Topcat and Aladin with excersises
13:00 Lunch break
14:30 Introduction to ADQL
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 ADQL continued
Our goal of the workshop is that you leave with a set of skills that enables you to
- retrieve data from the VO and how to fast access even large datasets with millions of rows/hundreds of columns
- perform a query across multiple catalogues and cross-match them
- exchange data between different VO tools
- communicate with external VO and non-VO data services
- how to use VO standards and tools and how to benefit from them
There will be time to ask questions and to bring your own use cases. We encourage you to send your use cases to us in advance to: