WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010

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AIDA WP4 ReportService Activities in support of provision

of VO-enabled services to the science community

Paolo Padovani and Evanthia Hatziminaoglou (ESO)

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• 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

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WP4 interactions

WP4

Internal Science TeamScience AdvisoryCommittee

European Astronomical Community

WP4 - VO-enabled services to the science community Euro-VO AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010

Françoise Genova, Project Coordinator

WP4 DeliverablesD4.1 First Announcement of

Opportunity ESOJune 2008

>May 2008

D4.2 First release of on-line science-oriented tutorials

ESO April 2009

D4.3 Second Announcement of Opportunity

ESO June 2009 >

May 2009

D4.4 Final release of on-line science-oriented tutorials

ESO April 2010>

May 2010[First, second, and third reporting period]

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

D2.2 First “Community Feedback” Workshop ESA

Oct. 2008>

Dec. 2008D2.3 “Hands-on” Workshop ESO Feb. 2009

>March 2009

D2.8 Second “Community Feedback” Workshop

ESO(CNRS)

Oct. 2009 >

Jan. 2010

[First, second, and third reporting period]

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• The Euro-VO SAC is a body of “external” astronomers who provide science input to the project and meets about twice a year• The 7th 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.html

WP2/4 activities: Science Advisory Committee (SAC) meetings

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WP4 activities: Final release of on-line science-oriented tutorials [D4.4]

http://www.euro-vo.org/pub/fc/workflows.html

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• 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]

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WP4 activities: Support to Announcement of Opportunity

projects [D4.1, D4.3]

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Fathi et al., Is galaxy scale length Universal?

Defining the SampleUsing the Sloan interface;X-correlate with LEDA &

filter

TOPCATSTILTS

Investigating the SDSS

scale length

TOPCAT

Aladin

Querying and Storing

SkyView

VOSpace

50000 objects * 5 images each

~300 GB of data

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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