H.E.S.S. is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes that investigates cosmic gamma rays in the 100 GeV to 100 TeV energy range. The name H.E.S.S. stands for High Energy Stereoscopic System.
HiPS: a hierarchical scheme for the description, storage and
access of sky survey data. The system is based on hierarchical tiling of sky
regions at finer and finer spatial resolution which facilitates a progressive
view of a survey, and supports multi-resolution zooming and panning. HiPS uses
the HEALPix tessellation of the sky as the basis for the scheme and is
implemented as a simple file structure with a direct indexing scheme that
leads to practical implementations.
The IMCCE is a research institute of the Paris Observatory, associated with the CNRS (UMR8028), whose work concerns mainly the dynamic and planetologic studies of the bodies of the solar system and of the terrestrial environment: planets, natural satellites, asteroids, comets, meteoroids and space debris. The IMCCE, through its VO Solar System Portal, places at the disposal of the Virtual observatory its knowledge and its expertise which concern the dynamics and the physics of the bodies of the solar system through databases, ephemeris computation services, tools of simulation, and numerical computation services fully compliant with the interoperability concept of the Virtual Observatory.
INAF IA2 TAP service dedicated to projects and surveys that are
not direct outcome of IA2 managed observatory/telescope archival
efforts.
Currently serving Exo Mer-Cat.
The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) was
formed in June 2002 with a mission to facilitate the
international coordination and collaboration necessary for the
development and deployment of the tools, systems and
organizational structures necessary to enable the
international utilization of astronomical archives as an
integrated and interoperating virtual observatory. By January
2005, the IVOA has grown to include 15 funded VO projects from
Australia, Canada, China, Europe, France, Germany, Hungary,
India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom,
and the United States. This membership is now being expanded
to include representation from projects constructing and
planning new observatories and astronomical facilities, as
well as emerging astronomical communities that seek to benefit
from the global availability of VO facilities and
technologies.
An IVOA Identifier is a globally unique name for a resource within the Virtual
Observatory. This name can be used to retrieve a unique description of the
resource from an IVOA-compliant registry or to identify an entity like a
dataset or a protocol without dereferencing the identifier. This document
describes the syntax for IVOA Identifiers as well as how they are created. The
syntax has been defined to encourage global-uniqueness naturally and to
maximize the freedom of resource providers to control the character content of
an identifier.
This is a special publishing registry that describes
resources that represent important infrastructure
components to the VO registry framework. A primary purpose
is to provide a registry to discover other publishing
registries. A registry that wants to harvest all records
known to the VO can first harvest from this registry a list
of all known publishing registries (via the IVOA Registry
Interface for harvesting with set=ivoa_publishers). An
interactive interface allows publishing registry providers
to check their interfaces and make their registries known to
the framework. This registry also describes standard
protocols recognized by the IVOA.
