Data Discovery Using the Virtual Observatory Registry
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:02
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
There are many ways to access registry data. A fairly powerful one is
the Web Interface to the Relational Registry (WIRR for short) at
http://dc.g-vo.org/WIRR To actually speak to the VO services
discovered, clients speaking the service's protocols are still
required. In this tutorial, Topcat plays that role. Starting from a
simple use case, we work up to investigating the Tully-Fisher relation
in different bands using independently discovered resources.
Discovery of Brown Dwarfs mining the 2MASS and SDSS databases
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:05
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
Brown dwarfs are objects occupying the gap between the least massive
stars and the most massive planets. They are intrinsically faint
objects so their detection is not straighforward and, in fact, was
almost impossible until the advent of global surveys at deep optical
and near-infrared bands like SDSS, 2MASS or DENIS among others. We
propose here to mine the 2MASS-PSC and SDSS-DR9 databases to identify
T-type brown dwarfs through an appropriate combination of colours in
the optical and the infra-red, an approach that perfectly fits into
the Virtual Observatory.
As stars in open star clusters are formed from the same matter at the
same time and have only a small velocity dispersion, it is relatively
easy to identify them from the background stars. In this tutorial, we
will identify the members of the Pleiades kinematically and get an
idea of our success by examining a color-magnitude diagram using
TOPCAT, Aladin, and a few VO services.
This tutorial uses data from Gaia DR2 to lead you through some of the
capabilities of TOPCAT and STILTS. Use cases covered include a studies
of the globular cluster M4 in proper motion space and the open cluster
Hyades in the full phase space, matches between Gaia and HST data, and
the creation of Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams.
This is a form-based service allowing users to run simple
queries against GAVO Data Center's ivoa.obscore table, with
some nods to users looking of data near the optical waveband.
For serious use, the `obscore table`_ should be queried through
TAP.
Note that queries without spatial constraints may take time out. You
probably ought to switch to async TAP if you really want to run such
queries.
.. _obscore table: /tableinfo/ivoa.obscore?tapinfo=true
Identifying Brown Dwarf candidates in 2MASS and SDSS
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:02
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This tutorial is a comprehensive scientific usecase in which brown
dwarf candidates in 2MASS and SDSS are identyfied. The surveys are
queried using ADQL, and unncertainties in the data are solved with
TOPCAT and Aladin.
Introduction to Simulation Databases - Density Fields and Dark Matter
Halos
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:06
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This tutorial was created for a physics teacher workshop (~ high
school level). It shows how to extract density fields and information
on dark matter halos from the CosmoSim database using SQL queries. It
is optimized for brevity.
Introduction to Simulation Databases Using CosmoSim
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:03
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This tutorial shows how to do first SQL-queries on cosmological
databases, including retrieving mass functions, extracting merger
trees or particles of a specific dark matter halo.
Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA)
Description:
J-NEP PDR202107 Catalogue (July, 2024) is based on scientific images in 60 filters. J-NEP is a 60-band photometric optical survey based on images collected by the JST250 telescope and the Pathfinder instrument at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ, Teruel, Spain) . Please include the following in any published material that makes use of this data: "Based on observations made with the JST250 telescope and PathFinder camera for J-NEP project at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre, in Teruel, owned, managed and operated by the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón."