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Latest News from the Virtual Observatory
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Research Initiatives
The VAO has identified eight major research initiatives that are of high priority. These are:
- A data discovery portal.
- Time series data analysis.
- Large-scale cross-match capability.
- Spectral energy distribution tools.
- Statistical analysis and data mining.
- Large-scale image display and visualization.
- Preservation and curation of data from journal articles.
- Integration of the desktop research environment with worldwide data sets and tools.
VAO Science Tools
- Find data sets in world wide archives with the Data Discovery Catalog
- Build and analyze spectral energy distributions with Iris
- Perform a positional cross-match of a table of sources with on-line catalogs with the Cross-Comparison service
- Find time-series data sets and compute their periodograms with the Time Series service
