US VAO
The Virtual Astronomical Observatory The primary emphasis of the VAO is to provide new scientific research capabilities to the astronomy community.
The US Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) is the VO effort based in the US, and it is one of many VO projects currently underway worldwide. Thus an essential component of the VAO activity is obtaining input from US astronomers about the research tools that are most urgently needed in their work, and this information will guide the development efforts of the VAO. Examples of current VAO project
Beyond the VAO – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: Beyond the VAO. Starting on October 1, 2014, the NASA archives will sustain the key components of the US Virtual Observatory infrastructure developed by the VAO as part of their in-guide funding.
usvao.org Starting on October 1, 2014, the NASA archives will sustain the key components of the US Virtual Observatory infrastructure developed by the VAO as part of their in-guide funding.
VAO Closeout Repository – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: VAO Closeout Repository
usvao.org As previously reported here, funding for the VAO project will discontinue on October 1, 2014. The project closeout plan included a directive from NSF and NASA to make code and digital assets available to the community.
VAO Software Release: Data Discovery Tool (version 1.7) – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: VAO Software Release: Data Discovery Tool v1.7
usvao.org The VAO has released a new version of the Data Discovery Tool (v1.7) on August 25, 2014. With this tool you can find datasets from thousands of astronomical collections known to the VO and over wide areas of the sky. This includes thousands of astronomical collections – photometric catalogs and ima…
Summary Report of the VAO Close‐Out Review – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
The report from the VAO Closeout Review, held in Pasadena in July 2014, is now available:
usvao.org The goal of the VAO Close-Out Review was to assess the status of all technical deliverables of the project, understand the curation of project assets and their transfer to the NASA data centers and other organizations, and to review the overall budgetary status and fiduciary responsibilities of the…
Astroinformatics 2014 | 25-29 Aug 2014
eventos.cmm.uchile.cl ConferenceViña del Mar Valparaíso Region, CHILE25-29 Aug 2014Astroinformatics is a thriving new discipline that has emerged at the intersection of astronomy/astrophysics, applied mathematics and high performance computing, arising from the need to address the challenges and opportunities of exponent…
IVOA.net
VO News: IVOA Newsletter 012 – May 2014: Theoretical Astrophysical Obs, VOClient, CASSIS spectrum analyzer, and more!
ivoa.net Subscribe | Newsletter archives | Write to the editorsIVOA Newsletter Editors: Mark G. Allen, Deborah Baines, Sarah Emery Bunn, Chenzou Cui, August Muench, Mark Taylor, & Ivan Zolotukhin.
VO Client Release – Access the VO from Your Desktop – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: VO Client Release – Access the VO from Your Desktop – http://bit.ly/1e9oTnf
usvao.org The US Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) has released VOClient – a software package that enables direct access to services in the VO from a Unix terminal or scripting environment. The VOClient command-line tools allow you to discover archives and catalogs through queries to the VAO Registry, se...
Aladin v8 – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: Aladin v8 http://bit.ly/PaSuRX
usvao.org The Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center has announced an update to the interactive software sky atlas, Aladin (version 8).
VO News: Comet VOEvent Implementation Update http://bit.ly/1pE7HZm
CASSIS Spectrum Analyzer Update – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: CASSIS Spectrum Analyzer Update http://bit.ly/1cnnd6I
usvao.org The Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP) has released a new version of CASSIS (3.5), software for the visualization, inspection, and analysis of spectral data.
VisIVO Contest 2014 – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: VisIVO Contest 2014 http://bit.ly/1du77YM
usvao.org This competition is an international call to use technologies provided by the VisIVO Science Gateway to produce images and movies from multi-dimensional datasets coming either from observations or numerical simulations. The competition is open to scientists and citizens alike who are investigating d...
VAO@AAS223 – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
The VAO will be at the 223rd American Astronomical Society Meeting in Washington, DC January 5-9, 2014 - see this post for where to find us!
usvao.org The VAO will be at the 223rd American Astronomical Society Meeting in Washington, DC January 5-9, 2014, contributing to the “Computation, Data Handling, & Image Analysis” and “Astroinformatics & Astrostatistics” poster sessions of the meeting. Both sessions are on Tuesday January 7 in the exhibit ha...
Happy Holidays from the VAO! *As many of our staff schedule vacation during this time, VAO response to user requests may be slower than usual.
Chilean Astroinformatics Platform Joins International Virtual Observatory Alliance – US Virtual...
VO News: Chilean Astroinformatics Platform Joins International Virtual Observatory Alliance http://bit.ly/1kjFbqB
usvao.org The project designed to manage and analyze the almost 250 terabytes of data that the Atacama Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will generate each year has joined the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA), becoming a key initiative in Chile’s contribution to astroinformatics around th...
VO Tools & Services: Simple Cone Search Creator – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: VO Tools & Services: Simple Cone Search Creator http://bit.ly/19ve9ug
usvao.org Thomas Boch (CDS) has released a Simple Cone Search Creator (SCSC). SCSC is a tool to generate a cone search service from a CSV file.
VAO Video Tutorial: Data Discovery Tool version 1.5
New video tutorial from the VAO - Data Discovery Tool version 1.5
Tom D demonstrates how to use the VAO Data Discovery Tool. The Portal searches data collections worldwide for data within a user-specified radius of a given ...
The Astronomy Legacy Project
Crowdfunding Opportunity at kickstarter: save/digitize large historical datasets via The Astronomy Legacy Project
kickstarter.com Unexplored astronomical research areas will emerge as century-old analog data is made accessible in digital format online.
IVOA Newsletter 011 – September 2013 – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: IVOA Newsletter 011 – September 2013 http://bit.ly/16maCtI
usvao.org This biannual newsletter for astronomers is intended to highlight new capabilities of VO tools and technologies for doing astronomy research. It also lists recent papers and upcoming events.
IVOA Interoperability Meeting – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: IVOA Interoperability Meeting http://bit.ly/161aEpx
usvao.org The VAO is hosting the upcoming IVOA Interoperability Meeting, to be held 26-28 September, 2013 in Waikoloa, Hawaii. The IVOA Interop Meetings are aimed at making significant progress in defining standards and sharing best practices in the development of the world wide Virtual Observatory initiative...
VAO Video Tutorial: SED Analysis with IRIS 2.0 (Part 1 of 2)
New video tutorial from the VAO - SED Analysis with IRIS 2.0:
PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sok9Q3HZusc IR-to-UV data for blazar PKS 1127-14: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwbX0VxOVx-iOW5lZFZyd2lQSEE/edit?usp...
The Future of the Virtual Observatory – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: The Future of the Virtual Observatory http://bit.ly/142dSt1
usvao.org Virtual Astronomy, e-Astronomy, and AstroInformatics are the basis for much of current astronomical research. Network-based access to distributed data will become increasingly important in the future as our telescopes and instruments produce petabyte-scale archives, with individual observation data...
2013 VAO Software Release: Iris SED Analysis Tool (version 2.0) – US Virtual Astronomical...
VO News: 2013 VAO Software Release: Iris SED Analysis Tool (version 2.0) http://bit.ly/19Y1D8I
usvao.org The VAO has released a new version of the Iris SED Analysis Tool (v2.0) on 01 July, 2013. Iris is a downloadable application for analysis of 1-D astronomical Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs). New features of Iris include:
VAO Software Release: Data Discovery Tool (version 1.5) – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: VAO Software Release: Data Discovery Tool (version 1.5) bit.ly/136ZvI8
usvao.org The VAO has released a new version of the Data Discovery Tool (v1.5) on June 21, 2012. With this tool you can find datasets from thousands of astronomical collections known to the VO and over wide areas of the sky. This includes thousands of astronomical collections – photometric catalogs and image...
Home | DISCS-2013
Possibly of interest to VO friends and users: The Second International Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS-2013) https://ft.ornl.gov/discs-2013/
ft.ornl.gov Held in conjunction with the 2013 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC13)
IVOA Newsletter 010 – May 2013 – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: IVOA Newsletter 010 – May 2013 http://bit.ly/13mFfzq
usvao.org The May 2013 issue of the IVOA Newsletter is now available athttp://ivoa.net/newsletter/010/. This biannual newsletter for astronomers is intended to highlight new capabilities of VO tools and technologies for doing astronomy research. It also lists recent papers and upcoming events.
Ars Technica: Astronomers and medical researchers deal with a common challenge – US Virtual Astronom
VO News: Astronomers and medical researchers deal with a common challenge...
usvao.org What’s the connection between studying distant galaxies or planets and curing diseases? Astronomers and medical researchers share a common problem of extracting useful information from massive data sets and are, at times finding common solutions. Read more about the overlaps between these two appa...
VAO Software Release: Scalable Cross Comparison Service (version 1.2) – US Virtual Astronomical Obse
VO News: VAO Software Release: Scalable Cross Comparison Service (version 1.2) http://bit.ly/18ffaCE - Now with SDSS DR9!
usvao.org Perform fast positional cross-matches between an input table of up to 1 million sources and common astronomical source catalogs.
Updates to TOPCAT and STILTS tools – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: Updates to TOPCAT and STILTS tools
usvao.org Version 4.0b of TOPCAT and version 2.5 of STILTS are now available. New features for TOPCAT are described here and the web pages and version histories for both tools can be found at the links below:
The Virtual Observer – March 2013 – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
The Virtual Observer – March 2013 http://bit.ly/YdgvLy
A summary of Virtual Observatory news for the US astronomical research community. Supported and compiled by the VAO.
In this issue:
VAO @ AAS 221st meeting
VO Community Days
Selected VO-related Publications
Recent Software Releases
European Astronomical Data Center Forum 2013 – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: European Astronomical Data Center Forum 2013 http://bit.ly/1083G31
usvao.org The CoSADIE project is organizing a European Data Centre Forum at the Zentrum fuer Astronomie der Universitaet Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, on June 10 and 11, 2013. The goal of this two day Astronomy Data Center Forum is to bringtogether VO engineers and data providers to foster an interchange o...
VOPlot and Astrostat Releases from VO-India – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: VOPlot and Astrostat Releases from VO-India http://bit.ly/WytDpG
usvao.org The VO-India team announces the release of VOPlot (v1.8). VOPlot is a tool for visualizing astronomical data. A full list of release features is available in the change log. The team has also released AstroStat (v1.0 Beta). AstroStat allows astronomers to use both simple and sophisticated statistic...
A few photos from AAS221 in Long Beach
.Astronomy 5 – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: .Astronomy 5 http://bit.ly/TmjrDm
usvao.org Registration is now open for .Astronomy 5. The event will be hosted by Harvard’s Seamless Astronomy group at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, MA, USA, September 16-18, 2013. .Astronomy is a three-day conference, unconference and hack day: all about astronomy onli...
VAO Software Release: Iris SED Analysis Tool (v1.2) – US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
VO News: VAO Software Release: Iris SED Analysis Tool (v1.2) http://bit.ly/10bous9
usvao.org The VAO has released a new version of the Iris SED Analysis Tool (v1.2) on 02 January, 2013. Iris is a downloadable application for analysis of 1-D astronomical Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs). New features of Iris include: