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41. The Pleiades open cluster
ID:
ivo://edu.gavo.org/eurovo/aida_pleiades
Title:
The Pleiades open cluster
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:04
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
Within this use case you recognize a physical association of stars close in space as opposed to a superpositon created by projection effects of stars very far one from the others. The key measure is distance derived from parallax. With the true members of the association (open cluster) you create a Herzsprung-Russell diagram as in the tutorial “the stars” (ivo://edu.gavo.org/eurovo/aida_stars). The Herzsprung-Russell diagram of stellar clusters is very important because of the low noise of few unrelated stars. If used in the classroom this advanced use case requires a reasonable understanding of histograms and bidimensional scatter diagrams. It is also rather long to perform from beginning to end.
42. The shape of galaxies
ID:
ivo://edu.gavo.org/eurovo/aida_galaxies
Title:
The shape of galaxies
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:06
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
Within this use case you discover the shapes of galaxies and their classification according to the Hubble diagram. You are offered sequences of galaxies with different morphologies and are asked to order them. The morphological classification of galaxies is still in use even if we have discovered that the Hubble diagram "per se" has no direct physical or evolutionary meaning. Besides introducing the main shapes of galaxies, the use case offer a demonstration of the classification process, a fundamental tool of astronomers.
43. The Sky
ID:
ivo://edu.gavo.org/eurovo/aida_the_sky
Title:
The Sky
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:13
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
The Earth rotates around its polar axis and orbits around the Sun: the sky above us (the celestial sphere) is in constant apparent motion. Stellarium is the perfect tool to demonstrate the motions of the sky, the use of coordinates and to illustrate constellations.
44. The stars
ID:
ivo://edu.gavo.org/eurovo/aida_stars
Title:
The stars
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:13
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
Stars have different colors and luminosities. Following this tutorial we will learn what star luminosity and color are, and which information about stellar evolution we can obtain from them.
45. TOPCAT and Aladin working together
ID:
ivo://edu.gavo.org/hd/topcat_aladin_together
Title:
TOPCAT and Aladin working together
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:05
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This tutorial will show how tabular data can be easily transferred from Topcat to Aladin or the other way, and it will illustrate the benefits of this inter-client communication for VO users. This is shown with a quick look at filtering members of the Coma Cluster from SDSS.
46. TOPCAT/STILTS Advanced Tutorial
ID:
ivo://edu.euro-vo.org/extern/asterics_topcatadvanced
Title:
TOPCAT/STILTS Advanced Tutorial
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:03
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This tutorial is a dense course through the advanced functions of TOPCAT and STILTS. It covers detailed information of how to use TOPCAT and STILTS to find data in the VO, access them, perform crossmatches and how to do visualisations.
47. Using the Virtual Observatory
ID:
ivo://org.gavo.dc/tutreg/gavo_vocourse/rec
Title:
Using the Virtual Observatory
Short Name:
GAVO vo course
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:06
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This is a course on using the Virtual Observatory (VO), an international research data infrastructure in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Starting with a brief discussion of some general concepts, it introduces some of the major client programs like TOPCAT and Aladin, together with some simple discovery protocols. A first focus topic is the query language ADQL, which is treated within the equivalent of three lectures. The second major focus of the course is the premier Python interface to the VO, pyVO, which is used to also more deeply investigate the topics treated before. The course is complemented by a number of side tracks, brief discussions of more fundamental or more specialised VO topics. The course comes with many exercises, most of which also have solutions. We hope it is suitable for both self-study and as lecture notes in teacher-led situations. In the latter case, it is designed to work as a semester-long course with two hours of lectures and lab work each per week.
48. VOTT: VO Text Treasures
ID:
ivo://org.gavo.dc/vott/q/list
Title:
VOTT: VO Text Treasures
Short Name:
VOTT
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:05
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
VOTT is a formatted list of educational/outreach texts on using the VO: use cases, tutorials, courses, and such. VOTT contains material for all settings, from pre-school to graduate. It is generated from the documents known to the VO Registry.