SVO: The Spanish Virtual ObservatorySVO: The Spanish Virtual Observatory

http://svo.laeff.inta.eshttp://svo.laeff.inta.es

Enrique Solano, LAEFF / SVOEnrique Solano, LAEFF / SVO

• Partner’s VO Project Partner’s VO Project Census of Spanish Data Census of Spanish Data CentresCentres• Partner areas of interest among the WP / Partner areas of interest among the WP / CollaborationCollaboration• Elements for WP6 (tomorrow).Elements for WP6 (tomorrow).

SVO in IVOA

• Member of IVOA since June

2004.

SVO funded by the Spanish Ministry of Research and Education

• VO identified as one of the priority lines.

• Aim: Coordination of the activities of the Spanish institutes in the VO framework. Contact-point for the international VO-projects

• Funded from Jan05 to Jan09

• 7 FTEs from 6 institutes. LAEFF: 4 FTEs. (“SVO core”).

Astronomical archives: take-up of VO standards.

VO applications and analysis tools

• Automatic classification of light curves

Similar tools are being developed for the COROT and GAIA projects.

VO applications and analysis tools

• VOSED: a Spectral Energy distribution builder and model fitting.

Theory in the VO• Theoretical model web server + TSAP

Other SVO funded initiatives: ASTRID-CM

• Title: “Development and exploitation of astronomical “Development and exploitation of astronomical

instrumentation”.instrumentation”.

• Project approved by the Regional Government

(“Comunidad de Madrid”).

• 632500 €. Funded from Jan 2006 to Jan 2010.

•1 FTE (postdoc) for VO activities.

ASTRID-CM: VO Services

• DAMADAMA: a preparatory tool for the DARWIN mission

• Darwin will search for Earth-like planets around other stars.

• A careful target selection of potential candidates is a critical issue.

• DAMADAMA:: a service to get all the information already available about the potential DARWIN candidates following a VO methodology.

ASTRID-CM: VO Science

• From Class 0 to Class III:Search and classification.

• Multiwavelength studies of star-forming galaxies.

ASTRID-CM: VO Science

Other SVO funded initiatives: CONSOLIDER - GTC

• Title: “First Science with GTC”“First Science with GTC”

• Project of excellence approved by the Spanish

Ministry of Education and Research.

• 5 500 000 €. Funded from Nov 2006 to Nov 2011.

• 2 FTE (postdoc) for VO activities. (probably)

VO compliance of the GTC archive

Data analysis/mining tools for the key science

projects.

The SVO Thematic Network

• More than 70 researches from 19 institutes.

• Comprising all the Spanish groups with interest in VO.

SVO Thematic Network: VO Radio

Archives (IAA)

SVO Thematic Network: VO compliance of catalogues

• Libraries of observed FGKM-type stars (UCM).

• An exhaustive multiwavelenght study of a complete sample of ~1000 isolated galaxies.

SVO Thematic Network: VO compliance of catalogues

• The AMIGA catalogue (IAA).

SVO Thematic Network: VO Services• PVOLPVOL: A management system of planetary images

(UPV)

SVO Thematic Network: Theory (IAA)

• PVOL: A management system of planetary images

SVO Thematic Network: Data Mining

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Tipo Luminosidad

Human Expert A

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Expert Systems

Backpropagation

RBF

Kohonen

K-means

Max-Min

Isodata

BDPreprocessing

ClassificationExpert systems

RNAsClustering

Spectra

• A management Automated classification of stellar spectra using A.I techniques (U. Coruña)

SVO Thematic Network: VO Science

• Characterization of the population of the σ Orionis cluster. (IAC)

SVO Thematic Network: VO Science• Discovery of ultracool (T-type) brown dwarfs.

(IAC+LAEFF)

SVO: The Spanish Virtual ObservatorySVO: The Spanish Virtual Observatory

http://svo.laeff.inta.eshttp://svo.laeff.inta.es

Enrique Solano, LAEFF / SVOEnrique Solano, LAEFF / SVO

• Partner’s VO Project Partner’s VO Project Census of Spanish Data Census of Spanish Data CentresCentres• Partner areas of interest among the WP. Partner areas of interest among the WP. CollaborationCollaboration• Elements for WP6 (tomorrow).Elements for WP6 (tomorrow).

SVO areas of interest among the EuroVO-DCA WPs

• WP3: “Support to take-up and implementation of the “Support to take-up and implementation of the

VO framework”. VO framework”. Close relation to WP6

• WP4: “Theory in the VO”“Theory in the VO” IAA, LAEFF

• WP5: “Coordination with computational grid “Coordination with computational grid

projects”projects”

IAA leads an e-Science proposal in Andalusia

CESCA (Supercomputing Centre of Catalonia):

high expertise in GRID & computational resources.