VO Day Jena 2019
This VO Day will take part on 'Wednesday March 13th and Thursday March 14th 2019 at Seminarraum of the Astrophysikalisches Institut und Universitäts-Sternwarte Jena.
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.
The VO Day will be held by Hendrik Heinl, GAVO/ARI.
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 and an internet connection.
The tutorials used are availbe in PDF format from http://www.g-vo.org/tutorials.
Schedule
March 13th
09:00 Welcome and introduction to the VO tools and standards
09:30 Hands on Session on VO standards working in TOPCAT and Aladin
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Hands on Session continued
12:15 Lunch break
13:15 Introduction to ADQL
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Introduction to ADQL continued
16:30 Coffee break
16:45 ADQL exercises
18:15 End Day 1
January 27th
09:30 ADQL use Case
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 VO standards in PyVO
12:45 Lunch break
13:45 PyVO continued
15:15 Coffee break
15:30 Participants use cases
17:00 End Day 2
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: