1. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Paolo Padovani, AIDA Project Scientist 1 AIDA WP4 Report Service Activities in support of provision of VO-enabled services to the science community Paolo Padovani and Evanthia Hatziminaoglou (ESO)

2. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Paolo Padovani, AIDA Project Scientist 2 Trigger advanced usage of VO capabilities Obtain a set of well-documented science cases Gather feedback about the needs of the science community Adaptation of VO tools to these needs In a nutshell: interaction with European astronomers in the area of “science with the VO” WP4 main objectives

3. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Paolo Padovani, AIDA Project Scientist 3 WP4 interactions WP4 Internal Science Team Science Advisory Committee European Astronomical Community

4. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Françoise Genova, Project Coordinator WP4 Deliverables D4.1First Announcement of Opportunity ESO June 2008 > May 2008 D4.2First release of on-line science-oriented tutorials ESOApril 2009 D4.3Second Announcement of Opportunity ESOJune 2009 > May 2009 D4.4Final release of on-line science-oriented tutorials ESOApril 2010 > May 2010 [First, second, and third reporting period]

5. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Françoise Genova, Project Coordinator WP4 Work for WP2 Deliverables D2.2First “Community Feedback” Workshop ESA Oct. 2008 > Dec. 2008 D2.3“Hands-on” WorkshopESOFeb. 2009 > March 2009 D2.8Second “Community Feedback” Workshop ESO (CNRS) Oct. 2009 > Jan. 2010 [First, second, and third reporting period]

6. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Paolo Padovani, AIDA Project Scientist 6 The Euro-VO SAC is a body of “external” astronomers who provide science input to the project and meets about twice a year The 7 th SAC meeting was held in London in June 2010 in the reporting period SAC members were briefed on Euro-VO activities and provided input on VO tools, Web pages, and VO days SAC Web pages at http://www.euro-vo.org/pub/fc/sac.htmlhttp://www.euro-vo.org/pub/fc/sac.html WP2/4 activities: Science Advisory Committee (SAC) meetings

7. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Paolo Padovani, AIDA Project Scientist 7 WP4 activities: Final release of on- line science-oriented tutorials [D4.4] http://www.euro-vo.org/pub/fc/workflows.html http://www.euro-vo.org/pub/fc/workflows.html

8. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Paolo Padovani, AIDA Project Scientist 8 The Announcements of Opportunity have provided scientific and technical support to teams interested in carrying out astronomical projects utilising VO tools For the last three of them support is closing down (and going beyond the end of the project) One of them (Is a galaxy’s disk scale-length universal? (PI Fathi [Sweden]) has recently published two papers in refereed journals and a press release is in the making WP4 activities: Support to Announcement of Opportunity projects [D4.1, D4.3]

9. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Paolo Padovani, AIDA Project Scientist 9 WP4 activities: Support to Announcement of Opportunity projects [D4.1, D4.3]

10. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Paolo Padovani, AIDA Project Scientist 10 Fathi et al., Is galaxy scale length Universal? Defining the Sample Using the Sloan interface; X-correlate with LEDA & filter TOPCAT STILTS Investigating the SDSS scale length TOPCAT Aladin Querying and Storing SkyView VOSpace 50000 objects * 5 images each ~300 GB of data

11. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Paolo Padovani, AIDA Project Scientist 11 More (as compared to the last review) VO Days: Catania “VO Day” [March 2010] Spanish “VO School [March 2010] Bonn “VO Day” [April 2010] Dutch “VO Day” [April 2010] French “VO School” [Strasbourg, June 2010] Swedish “VO Days” [Stockholm, June 2010] 3rd International School in Astronomy: Astroinformatics & VO [Belgrade, June 2010] More WP4 related activities

12. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Paolo Padovani, AIDA Project Scientist 12 All deliverables done on-time and very successfully Announcement of Opportunity, Workshops, and Schools have shown how vital it is to interact with the European astronomical community “Hands-on” schools have been shown to be particularly efficient at collecting feedback and have triggered a large number of VO- days across Europe, which have re-utilized the science tutorials Science tutorials will be maintained and are available on the Euro- VO Web site beyond the end of the project Vital to continue the interaction with the astronomical community; another school is planned in 2011 as part of the Euro-VO International Cooperation Empowerment (ICE) project. And then? WP4 overall conclusions

13. WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Paolo Padovani, AIDA Project Scientist 13 FP7 support has proven to be invaluable in organizing all of the above activities Thanks to AIDA, the European astronomical community (especially the young one) is now taking up the use of Virtual Observatory tools and applications for their science activities WP4 overall conclusions

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