WP5 service activities for higher education and outreach
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WP5
service activities for higher education and outreach
Massimo Ramella (INAF-OATs)
Fifth EuroVO Technology Forum, March 16-18, Heidelberg Massimo Ramella
AIDA WP5 Objectives • Provide tools for access to VO data for higher education students, for middle school teachers and students, and for amateur astronomers
• Provide some basic information on the main classes of objects available to our public within the Euro VO database.
• Offer to students a glimpse of the professional world of astronomers without the burden of a too steep learning curve.
Fifth EuroVO Technology Forum, March 16-18, Heidelberg Massimo Ramella
Phase A 1. Requirements and choice of outreach interfaces2. Production and/or modification of existing software 3. Translation of outreach interfaces4. Basic documentation with some examples
Phase B 1. Identify testers and design appealing projects for them2. Test Interface 3. Gather, translate and organize feed-back for interface revisions
Phase C 1. Produce documents (userguide, primer, examples, basic script library ...) 2. Produce basic outreach content for interface and dedicated web-site3. Distribute and promote the use of our outreach products
The work plan
Fifth EuroVO Technology Forum, March 16-18, Heidelberg Massimo Ramella
Cycle 1 (students main target, WP5 persons present in class)
Test Interface Cycle 2 (main goal: teachers self-sufficiency)
WP5 STATUS
• SOFTWARE: ONLY FEW MINOR REVISIONS
• USE CASES: LIBRARY OK AND GROWING (10 AVAILABLE)
• TRANSLATIONS: PROGRESS, BUT MORE WORK NEEDED
• WEBSITE: READY
Fifth EuroVO Technology Forum, March 16-18, Heidelberg Massimo Ramella
WP5 DIFFUSION
VO-Day in tour
WP5 Web Site
Fifth EuroVO Technology Forum, March 16-18, Heidelberg Massimo Ramella
workshops,conferences,other initiatives
sn in M47
V = 1500 km/s
angle = 2.7’
Observed year 2000
Exploded year 1054
2,7’
R
D
• time between observation and explosion:
2000 – 1054 = 946 years = 30 billions sec
• after 1000yrs the SNR has the radius:
radius = speed’ x time from explosionR = 1500 x 30 109 km = 4.5 1013 km
• distance of the supernova:
D = R / angle (radians) = 2 kpc
D = 6500 light years