GAVO – after one year H.-M. Adorf & the GAVO team
ADA III GAVO’s Pillars Publication and federation of datasets including theoretical ones Spatial matching & classification & visualization (NGSE) Grid computing
ADA III The GAVO Team PI: Wolfgang Voges, MPE, Garching CoI: Matthias Steinmetz, AIP, Potsdam Hans-Martin Adorf, MPE Harry Enke, AIP Gerard Lemson, MPE
ADA III Collaborations MPE, Garching (Peter Schuecker) AIP Potsdam Canadian Virtual Obs. (CVO), Victoria Universitaetssternw. Muenchen (USM) MPA, Garching (Planck, …)
ADA III GAVO Work Areas Publication of ROSAT datasets REST-based SCS service (HTTP GET in; XML, CSV, HTML out) SOAP-based SCS service MCMCS Download Manager Fuzzy spatial matcher Grid-based detection of galaxy clusters ROSAT matcher/classifier service
ADA III ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) BSC, FSC & Photons VO-compatibility: Input: Simple cone search Output: VOTable, … New features Exposure times Galactic & Cartesian coordinates Healpix indices
ADA III SCS
ADA III Result
ADA III VOTable
ADA III MCMCS Download Manager Tool … … accesses registry at JHU User … … selects up to 70 distributed catalogues … specifies one or more sky-locations Tool … … queries remote catalogues … retrieves datasets (VOTables) for further processing
ADA III MCMCS Download Manager
ADA III MCMCS Download Manager
ADA III Workflow
ADA III Fuzzy spatial matcher Essential for data mining Prototype features Performs “fuzzy” match between pairs of source lists from different catalogues Computes probability of real match based on astrometric uncertainties Moving matcher into production use Currently exported to Canadian Virtual Observatory Feeding matches to ClassX classifier Long-term goal: assemble an SED
ADA III Fuzzy spatial matcher (ctd)
ADA III Grid computing What is Grid-computing? Globus Toolkit, SGE, EJBs WebServices Detection of galaxy clusters using RASS photons, SDSS RASS source classification using RASS B/FSC, SUMSS, NVSS, USNO
ADA III Workflow
ADA III Galaxy-cluster detection Search for galaxy clusters in heterogeneous databases RASS photons SDSS Software FORTRAN 90 code (data analysis) Perl scripts (data/grid management) Globus Toolkit
ADA III Galaxy-cluster detection Components Setup script Sets up the directory structure Distributes the software across the grid Execution script Triggers the parallel execution on the compute nodes Data collection script Retrieves the results from the compute nodes
ADA III GAVO Mini-GRID
ADA III Status Perl scripts Upgrading the RASS Photon DB Soon integrate the SDSS mirror copy
ADA III RASS-source classifier ClassX: international collaboration T.A. McGlynn, A.A. Suchkov, E.L. Winter, R.J. Hanisch, R.L. White, F. Ochsenbein, S. Derriere, W. Voges, M.F. Corcoran Requires data from several sky-surveys X-ray: ROSAT BSC+FSC Optical: USNO, (SDSS) Infrared: (2MASS) Radio: FIRST, NVSS, SUMSS Distributed multi-wavelength VO-application
ADA III Data Flow
ADA III PoseQuery
ADA III DisplayQueryResult
ADA III DisplayMatchResult
ADA III The matching problem
ADA III DisplayXMatchResult
ADA III DisplayClassXResult
ADA III RASS-source classifier State & session management Using Java Servlet session mechanism Internal abstract state machine Strong points End-to-end VO-application Works with lists of objects / sky-coordinates Accesses several distributed databases Uses deterministic matcher (at Vizier and SDSS) Uses probabilistic matcher (at GAVO) Uses data analysis service (at NASA)
ADA III RASS-source classifier Future work Use IVOA-standards or protocols VOTable WSDL, SOAP-based Web Services Add graphics Multi-threaded Modularize, generalize and make S/W configurable
ADA III RASS-source classifier Open questions Is an HTML form-based GUI sufficiently powerful to control a complex grid application? What are the user expectations wrt the workflow? Is there a standard workflow that one could use / agree upon?
ADA III Conclusion GAVO is a small, but ambitious project Two Grid applications Detection of galaxy clusters Globus Toolkit Classification of ROSAT sources Based on WebServices
ADA III References GAVO Mid-Term Report, 90 pages, (soon) Detection of X-ray Clusters of Galaxies by Matching RASS Photons and SDSS Galaxies within GAVO, P. Schuecker, H. Boehringer, W. Voges, A&A (submitted) Automated classification of ROSAT sources using heterogeneous multiwavelength catalogs, T.A. McGlynn et al., ApJ (submitted)