Science with the Virtual Observatory
A one-day session of the
JENAM-2011: European Week of Astronomy and Space Science
Russia, Saint-Petersburg, 4 - 8 July, 2011
(Click here for main conference
website)
Conveners:
1.
ESA-ESAC,
2.
Institute
of Astronomy,
3.
Byurakan
Astrophysical Observatory,
RATIONALE
The development of huge astronomical data bases archives and software
tools that utilize computer networks to create an environment in which
research can be conducted have initiated an active use of
new techniques in astronomy, Virtual Observatory (VO).
It is a collection of interoperating data and software to form a
research environment in which complex research programs can be
conducted.
During the past 10 years it has been produced a resumption
of a dialogue between astronomers and computer scientists,
led by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA).
This dialogue has been quite fruitful and has been the
origin of a new discipline that can be called Data Intensive Astronomy.
VO projects worldwide are now moving from the development of
infrastructure into the operations era. In order for such projects to
remain viable, it is essential that VO projects become more closely
aligned with the needs of the astronomical research community, and the
metric of success of the IVOA and the national VO projects will be
wide utilization of VO products and services by astronomers worldwide.
The IVOA has begun to focus its efforts in this area by assisting
in the creation of scientific sessions at major international
meetings, developing science use cases, identifying urgently-needed
services, and suggesting paths for implementation of these services in
close collaboration with the IVOA.
PROCEEDINGS
The SpS3 Proceedings will be published in international refereed journal "Baltic Astronomy" (http://www.itpa.lt/balticastronomy/). Instructions for preparing and submitting your manuscript may be reviewed on the Instructions page of the "Baltic Astronomy" website: http://www.itpa.lt/balticastronomy/instructions-to-authors When developing your submission, please ensure that you use appropriate LaTeX style files, which may be retrieved from the Style files page: http://www.itpa.lt/balticastronomy/files
Page limitation for Invited/Contributed/Poster papers: 8 pages
Proceedings editors: Oleg Malkov and Nikolay Samus
The deadline for manuscript submission is September 15, 2011
UPLOAD PRESENTATIONS
We would like to make presentations available online. To help this along, we request that you upload your presentation (oral as well as posters) as soon as it is ready (i.e., you can do it right now) to our upload ftp site: ftp://ftp.inasan.ru/incoming/JENAM2011/SPS3/
PPT and PDF are our preferred formats. We ask that you identify your presentation by using as its file name your last name, for instance: malkov.pdf
SCIENTIFIC
PROGRAM
Session 1. Science data centres in the VO. 9:30-11:10
Chair: Mark Allen
09:30 -09:50
"Presentation on VAMDC" Pierre Le
Sidaner
09:50-10:10 "Using VO technologies to access CADC collections" Severin Gaudet
10:10-10:30 "CDS services in the VO era : data center 2.0" Sebastien Derriere
10:30-10:45 "The Kyiv Meridian Circle' observation archive as the UkrVO
scientific resourse" Anastasiia Zolotukhina
10:45-11:00 "The Serbian Virtual Observatory: Current Status of Belgrade Wide
Field Plate Archive. Future Plans and Topics" Vojislava Protitch-Benishek
11:00-11:10 "Extragalactic science with the Virtual Observatory"
Igor Chilingarian
11:10-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Plenary session 2
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
Session 2. Science from catalogues and large surveys in the VO. 15:00-16:30
Chair: Severin Gaudet
15:00-15:20 "Cross catalog matching with VO and parameterization of stars"
Oleg Malkov
15:20-15:40 "VODKA: as VO-tools can be usefull for
data mining science" Riccardo Smareglia
15:40-16:00
"Large astronomical surveys, archives and
databases" Areg Mickaelian
16:00-16:15 "Multifrequency Study of Radio Sources of the RCR Catalogue with the
Virtual Observatory Tools" Olga Zhelenkova
16:15-16:30 "UkrVO Joint Archive and Scientific Projects" Irina Vavilova
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:30 Plenary session 3
Session 3. Science use cases with the VO. 18:30-20:00
Chair: Areg Mickaelian
18:30-18:50 "Going beyond coordinate searches in the VO" Mark Allen
18:50-19:10 "Science Initiatives of the US Virtual Astronomical Observatory"
Robert Hanisch
19:10-19:30 "Science with the VO: Spectroscopic studies of pre-main sequence
stars" Deborah Baines
19:30-19:50 "Galactic science with the Virtual Observatory" Ivan Zolotukhin
19:50-20:00 "Discoveries of ultracool subdwarfs with VO tools" Eduardo Martin
Posters:
"Digital archive of plate collection of the astrograph of the Zvenigorod
observatory of Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences"Sergei
Vereshchagin et al.
"The lower main sequence of stars in the solar neighborhood: model predictions
versus observations" Stanislava Bartasiute et al.
"Pulkovo observatory astronegative library" Eugene Poliakow et al.
"Pulkovo observatory nanometrical measuring machine"Eugene Poliakow et al.
"The new version of Binary stars database (BDB)" Pavel Kaygorodov et al.
"Spectral Analysis with the Virtual Observatory Service TheoSSA" Klaus Werner
et al.