Science Tools for Data-Intensive Astronomy
Virtual Observatory Workshop—American Astronomical Society 219th Meeting
Sunday, January 8, 2012
- Research with the Virtual Observatory (2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.) will demonstrate VO tools and services in the context of a range of science use cases and tutorials. Based on recent results from the literature and on-going missions, these use cases include constructing and modeling spectral energy distributions (SEDs), cross-matching objects from diverse catalogs, exploration of time series data, and image analysis.
Agenda
2:30 |
Welcome & Introduction to the Virtual Observatory |
2:40 |
Energetic processes within AGN, adding (mock) ALMA data to the SED of a Fermi blazar, illustrating the SED/Iris Tool |
2:55 |
How can I overlay a legacy survey catalog on an image that I've just acquired? and other applications, illustrating VAO/IRAF |
3:10 |
Finding brown dwarf candidates in near-IR catalogs, illustrating the Scalable Crossmatch Tool |
3:25 |
New data on young stellar objects (YSOs), illustrating the Data Discovery Portal |
3:40 |
Increasing the population of RR Lyrae stars in the Galactic bulge to help understand Galactic structure, illustrating Interoperable Time Series Capabilities |
3:55 |
Data Mining & Extraction (DAME) |
4:10 |
Data from the literature, illustrating the VAO AstroExplorer |
4:30 |
Small Group Discussions and Wrapup |
The first session of this workshop, aimed at high school and community college science educators, will run from 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Further information about the educator session can be found here.