New AstroGrid release Revealing the multi-wavelength sky with AstroGrid. The multi-wavelength sky is set to clear as the world's most powerful astronomical virtual observatory opens. The AstroGrid service provides the UK astronomy community unparalleled access to the wide range of multi-wavelength observations of our sky. Access to the AstroGrid service becomes available at http://www.astrogrid.org. Read more in the official press release web site. |
Census of the European astronomical data centers The EURO-VO Data Centre Alliance project (http://www.euro-vo.org/pub/dca/overview.html) is a Coordination Action funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Program. It aims at helping European astronomical data centres to publish their data and services in the Virtual Observatory, using standards defined by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA). EuroVO-DCA operates by coordinating the sharing of expertise, organizing Workshops, and providing assistance, in particular through the national VO projects and by technical visit of experts. The European community of Data Centres is not well identified at present. In order for the DCA to provide the best possible service to help Data Centres participate in the VO, we are conducting a census of data centres to understand their characteristics and needs. The information collected in this census will provide a snapshot of the European Data Centre Community, and will guide the preparation of workshops, tutorials and other assistance programs to help Data Centres 'publish to the VO'. European Data Centres encompass a wide diversity of data and services, and the DCA adopts a broad and inclusive definition of a Data Centre . The census questions aim to capture the basic information that characterise Data Centres in terms of their content, services and current interfaces. Additional information and the census questionnaires can be found here. Please submit your questionnaires by January 25, 2008. |
AIDA: Astronomical Infrastructure for Data Access The EURO-VO proposal "Astronomical Infrastructure for Data Access (AIDA)" submitted to the first Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Infrastructure call INFRA-2007-1.2.1 "Scientific Digital Repositories" has been selected for funding at the 2.7 M€ level. The projected starting date is Feb. 1, 2008 and ensures the continuation of European-wide VO activities at least until 2010. AIDA aims at unifying the digital data collection of European astronomy, integrating their access mechanisms with evolving e-technologies and enhancing the science extracted from these data-sets. |
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EURO-VO Spectroscopy Workshop March 21-23, 2007 The goal of this EURO-VO workshop held at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Spain is to outline needs and challenges that astronomical spectroscopy will be facing in the coming years, and to identify how the unique capabilities intrinsic to the Virtual Observatory concept can meet them. |
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First EURO-VO Science Advisory Committe meeting April 27-28, 2006 The first meeting of the EURO-VO Science Advisory Committe (SAC) will be held at ESO, Garching. The EURO-VO SAC is composed of leading European esearchers outside mainstream VO projects and its task is to provide scientific advice to the EURO-VO Project. |
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'Super-starburst' galaxies hide active black holes ⇒ April 5, 2005 A team of European scientists has used Virtual Observatories to compare observations of distant "starburst" galaxies made at radio and X-ray wavelengths. This is the first study to combine the highest resolution and sensitivity radio and X-ray images which penetrate the dust hiding the centres of some of these distant galaxies. |
What is a Virtual Observatory? – An Overview The Virtual Observatory can streamline the once cumbersome process of searching for and collating astronomical data and bring together information to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. |
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