This archive collects and re-publishes third-party, mostly amateur,
images of the Gaia astrometry satellite to complemement the Ground Based
Optical Tracking (GBOT) effort.
Until Gaia passivation, there is a temporary upload facility
at https://dc.g-vo.org/citigbot/q/upload/form.
The overall goal of this tutorial is to become familiar with VOSpec.
For that, we are going to build the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED)
of two Herbig Ae/Be stars, compare them and categorise them as group 1
or group 2 Herbig Ae/Be stars.
This tutorial uses SPLAT-VO to search the VO registry for spectra of
galaxies and quasars. From the obtained spectra, the Hydrogen Lyman
Alpha line will be used to compute redshift and velocity
Within this intermediate use case you learn about supernovae (see
also the tutorial “Distance to the Crab Nebula“,
ivo://edu.euro-vo.org/tutorials/08_m1_distance) and determine the
celestial coordinates of a just discovered candidate supernova on an
provided image without astrometric calibration. This use case provides
a glimpse of an activity that is representative of the practical tasks
that astronomers have to perform when they analyze data.
Coordinated microlensing survey observations with Kepler K2/C9 using
VST
Short Name:
k2c9vst ssap
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:04
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
The Kepler satellite has observed the Galactic center in a campaign
lasting from April until the end of June 2016 (K2/C9). The main
objective of the 99 hours for the microlensing program 097.C-0261(A)
using the ESO VLT Survey Telescope (VST) was to monitor the superstamp
(i.e., the actually downloaded region of K2/C9) in service mode for
improving the event coverage and securing some color-information. Due
to weather conditions, the majority of images were taken in the red
band. These are part of the present release.
The exact pointing strategy was adjusted to cover the superstamp with
6 pointings and to contain as many microlensing events from earlier
seasons as possible. In addition, a two-point dither was requested to
reduce the impact of bad pixels and detector gaps. Consequently, some
events were getting more coverage and have been observed with
different CCDs. The large footprint of roughly 1 square degree and the
complementary weather conditions at Cerro Paranal have lead to the
coverage of 147 events (this resource's events table), but ~60 of
those were already at baseline.
Differences between UCAC3 and PPMXL in positions and proper
motions, on
an all-sky one-degree grid. At each gridpoint we give the
differences X(PPMXL)- X(UCAC3) averaged over all stars in
a sqrt(2)/2-degrees environment around the gridpoint given. The
corrections given here should bring UCAC3 based astrometry to the ICRS.
Differences between USNO-B and PPMXL in positions and proper
motions, on
an all-sky one-degree grid. At each gridpoint we give the
differences X(PPMXL)- X(USNO-B1.0) averaged over all stars in
a sqrt(2)/2-degrees environment around the gridpoint given. The
corrections given here should bring USNO-B based astrometry to the ICRS.