Strasbourg, EURO-VO DCA First Board Meeting (GA)VO projects at MPG(E) and participation in VO-DCA (tbcd) Wolfgang Voges, Gerard Lemson

Strasbourg, EURO-VO DCA First Board Meeting GAVO GAVO is a project, sponsored by the BMBF, for building a "Virtual Observatory" platform to support modern astronomical research in Germany. It is the German contribution to the international activities aiming at the creation of a global Virtual Observatory (VO) network. Status GAVO II Review GAVO I –archives –data mining –grid –theory Role in DCA

Strasbourg, EURO-VO DCA First Board Meeting GAVO activities MPE/A Archives: –ROSAT –Sloan SkyServer Mirror (soon DR5) and peripherals (indices, MOPED, PCA) –Millennium databases (MyDB) –All-sky maps (HEALPix) : ROSAT, WMAP, Planck Other archives –Heidelberg: various (Hipparcos etc) –Potsdam: RAVE Datacenter ARI-ZAH –Host small datasets of individual astronomers. –Collaboration with CDS ?

Strasbourg, EURO-VO DCA First Board Meeting GAVO activities cntd. DAL: –SCS on ROSAT photons and source catalogues –SIAP on ROSAT pointed observations (based on FITS keyword metadata repository in SQLServer) –SSA prototype on CDFS optical spectra, MPE-based XMM-results planned VOQL –Cross-matcher (upload list+VizieR+SDSS, two recent publications, Komossa et al) –Technische Universität München-Informatik: StarGlobe, HisBase (with JHU) Data mining services –ClassX –SED classifier Access tools –web browser –Java GUI –adapters for accessing database remotely: Perl+SOAP,TOPCAT, IDL, R Theory –Virgo consortium’s Millennium database (MPA, Durham; astro-ph/ )Millennium database –Various virtual telescopes (Planck, MoMaF, X-Ray)PlanckMoMaF –IVOA D-Grid/AstroGrid-D –cluster finder –virtual telescopes –distributed matching

Strasbourg, EURO-VO DCA First Board Meeting Participation in WPs WP2: Definition of European Strategy –Census in Germany (datacenters AND services) –X-Ray requirements and specs –Theory strategy WP3: Support to take-up and implementation of VObs Framework (in GAVO) –Existing archives in Germany (within GAVO and outside), e.g. digitised plate archives –new: E-ROSITA preparation, PanStars, Planck WP4: Theory in the VObs (next slide) –Collaborating on creation of standards –Managing of various theory archives and services –Create reference implementations of theory standards –Hosting workshop(s) WP5: Coordination with computational grid projects –MPG/GAVO Participant in D-Grid’s AstroGrid-D –implementation theory services (virtual telescopes, cutout Millennium simulation for SNAP) WP6: Support to data centers from other European countries –?

Strasbourg, EURO-VO DCA First Board Meeting IVOA Theory Interest Group Motivation Horizontal TWiki/mailing list Use cases SNAP –objects existing/evolving in 3D space –DAL++ like –subvolume extraction Semantics/UCD –simulation parameters –physics –source code Data model –provenance –subject/physics –characterisation

Strasbourg, EURO-VO DCA First Board Meeting networking e.g. dal –ESO: ROSAT metadata repository dm –characterisation for simulations theory (already started) –SNAP –semantics –MoMaF voql