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.
This is a view of the dust maps in the five orders, generated by
splitting the larger pixels from the higher orders into HEALPixes of
order 10. This means, in particular, that the spatial resolution for
all pixels with original_order!=10. Use this for convenient joins to
other tables.
This services provides 1D spectra from DR5 of LAMOST (Large Sky Area
Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope) through SSAP;
data is served both in VO-standard SDM and, via datalink, the original
SDSS-inspired FITS described in
http://dr5.lamost.org/doc/data-production-description .
A collection of images of lensed quasars from various sources.
Included are images from Maidanak Observatory
(ivo://org.gavo.dc/maidanak/res/rawframes/siap), Apache Point
Observatory, from the MiNDSTEp project
(ivo://org.gavo.dc/danish/red/q), and from the Liverpool Robotic
Telescope (ivo://org.gavo.dc/liverpool/res/rawframes/q).
The LIFE Target Star Database contains information useful
for the planned `LIFE mission`_ (mid-ir, nulling
interferometer in space). It characterizes possible
target systems including information about stellar,
planetary and disk properties. The data itself is mainly
a collection from different other catalogs.
Note that LIFE's target database is living
data. The content – and to some extent even structure – of these
tables may change at any time without prior warning.
.. _LIFE mission: https://life-space-mission.com/
We give continuous night and day light measurements at all natural
outdoor light levels by a network of low-cost lightmeters. Developed
to start simple, global continuous high cadence monitoring of night
sky brightness and artificial night sky brightening (light pollution)
in 2009. The lightmeter network is a project of the Thüringer
Landessternwarte, Tautenburg, Germany and the Kuffner-Sternwarte
society at the Kuffner-Observatory, Vienna, Austria.
It started as part of the Dark Skies Awareness cornerstone of the
International Year of Astronomy.
This collection includes optical monitorings of gravitationally lensed
quasars. The frames can be used to make light curves of quasar images
and field objects. From quasar light curves, one may measure time
delays and flux ratios, analyse variability and chromaticity, etc.
These direct analyses/measurements are basic tools for different
astrophysical studies, e.g., expansion rate of the Universe, mechanism
of intrinsic variability in quasars, accretion disk structure,
supermassive black holes, dark halos of galaxies (dust, collapsed dark
matter, smoothly distributed dark matter,...)
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