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1 The Spanish-VO and the VO-Science Francisco Jiménez Esteban CAB / SVO (INTA-CSIC) Suffolk University

2 The Spanish-VO (SVO) IVOA was created in June 2002 with the mission to facilitate the international coordination and collaboration. Organized in working groups, IVOA is the forum where the standards, tools, roadmap, are defined.

3 The Spanish-VO SVO - Officially started in June Development of a VO infrastructure in Spain. Coordination of the activities of the Spanish institutes in the VO framework. Contact-point for the international VO-projects.

4 The Spanish-VO SVO - Led by E. Solano (CAB / INTA-CSIC) Network of almost 200 researchers from 33 institutes Funded by the INTA, the Spanish hgovernment and the EU.

5 The Spanish-VO The CAB Scientific Data Center

6 The Spanish-VO The CAB Scientific Data Center

7 The Spanish-VO Theoretical Data Server

8 The Spanish-VO Theoretical Data Server

9 The Spanish-VO Services

10 The Spanish-VO Services

11 The Spanish-VO Services

12 The Spanish-VO Education & Outreach

13 The Spanish-VO Education & Outreach

14 The Spanish-VO Education & Outreach Dedicated VO-school around Spain

15 The Spanish-VO Education & Outreach Dedicated VO-school around Europe 3/2009 Garching, EuroVO-AIDA Hands-on workshop strasbg.fr/twikiaida/bin/view/eurovoaida/voschool09/webhome 6/2009 Madrid, EuroVO-AIDA Workshop on How to Publish Data in the VO strasbg.fr/twikiaida/bin/view/eurovoaida/aidavows2009/webhome 1/2010 Strasburg, EuroVO-AIDA School 3/2011 Strasburg, EuroVO-ICE School 2011 Strasburg 2/2013 Madrid, EuroVO-COSADIE VO School t csic.es/projects/cosadie/main/index.php

16 The Spanish-VO Education & Outreach Dedicated VO-school around Europe 3/2009 Garching, EuroVO-AIDA Hands-on workshop strasbg.fr/twikiaida/bin/view/eurovoaida/voschool09/webhome 6/2009 Madrid, EuroVO-AIDA Workshop on How to Publish Data in the VO strasbg.fr/twikiaida/bin/view/eurovoaida/aidavows2009/webhome 1/2010 Strasburg, EuroVO-AIDA School 3/2011 Strasburg, EuroVO-ICE School 2011 Strasburg 2/2013 Madrid, EuroVO-COSADIE VO School t csic.es/projects/cosadie/main/index.php

17 The Spanish-VO Education & Outreach Dedicated VO-school around Europe 3/2009 Garching, EuroVO-AIDA Hands-on workshop strasbg.fr/twikiaida/bin/view/eurovoaida/voschool09/webhome 6/2009 Madrid, EuroVO-AIDA Workshop on How to Publish Data in the VO strasbg.fr/twikiaida/bin/view/eurovoaida/aidavows2009/webhome 1/2010 Strasburg, EuroVO-AIDA School 3/2011 Strasburg, EuroVO-ICE School 2011 Strasburg 2/2013 Madrid, EuroVO-COSADIE VO School t csic.es/projects/cosadie/main/index.php

18 The Spanish-VO VO Science Foster the VO-Science among the Spanish astronomers SVO is one of the most active groups around the world in VO-science. Since Jan 2012, around 50 VO papers 20% with participation of the SVO.

19 VO Science Science Tools Stds

20 VO Science Archives: Fundamental tools for modern astrophysics.

21 VO Science Weak point #1: Data everywhere!! Where are the data I am interested in?

22 VO Science Weak point #2: Lack of standardization archive 1 service 1 archive 2 archive 3 service2 service3 survey 1 survey 2 survey 3

23 VO Science Weak point #2: Lack of standardization archive 1 service 1 archive 2 archive 3 service2 service3 survey 1 survey 2 survey 3

24 VO Science Weak point #2: Lack of standardization archive 1 service 1 archive 2 archive 3 service2 service3 survey 1 survey 2 survey 3

25 VO Science Weak point #3: Data volume Today: 1 Petabyte in archives. Rate: 0.5 PB/yr

26 VO Science Weak point #3: Data volume Today: 1 Petabyte in archives. Rate: 0.5 PB/yr LSST, ALMA, SKA 60 PB in years.

27 VO Science Astronomy with archives

28 VO Science Astronomy with archives

29 VO Science Astronomy with archives

30 VO Science What do I expect from VO tools? Data discovery Data retrieval Data analysis

31 VO Science. Case I Preparation of observations Systematic survey for faint, cold debris disks (similar to Kuiper belt) around nearbystars. 239 IV-V stars. Sample is volume-limited (d < 25 pc; Hipparcos) The dtild detailed analysis of fit faint cold disks require a good knowledge of the stellar properties, like e.g. T eff, luminosity, age, metallicity or activity.

32 VO Science. Case I Preparation of observations

33 VO Science. Case II Discovering new objects of a given class

34 VO Science. Case II Discovering new objects of a given class Metal-poor dwarfs with spectral type later than M7. Hotter than their solar metallicity counterparts. Population II. Useful tracers of the Galactic chemical history. Known around fifty in 2011.

35 VO Science. Case II

36 VO Science. Case II 20 new spectroscopically confirmed UCSDs > 80% success rate after proper motion refinement

37 VO Science. Case III Discovery of peculiar objects Bright objects with peculiar colours and high proper motions are rare in the sky. The closer/brighter the easier to investigate their physical py properties - Blue: Nearby WD, subo, runaway stars, or OB stars in nearby young moving groups. - Red: nearby M dwarfs or RG with high tangential velocity

38 VO Science. Case III Discovery of peculiar objects Cross-matched Tycho-2 and 2MASS 155,000 high proper motion candidates (µ > 50 mas/yr) Reduced proper motion diagram H VT vs. V T K s Blue sources V T K s < blue (OB, sdo, WD) 5 unknown WD or sdo

39 VO Science. Case III Discovery of peculiar objects We confirmed the nature of one sdo (FUSE spectra)

40 VO Science. Case III Discovery of peculiar objects Red sources V T K s > red (M dwarfs and giants) - 5 unknown, probably bl thick-disc and halo giants

41 VO Science. Case III Discovery of peculiar objects

42 VO Science. Case III Discovery of peculiar objects

43 We found from ASAS analysis: 1l long secondary period 1 extremely long period VO Science. Case III Discovery of peculiar objects We confirmed with follow-up observations: 1 RG 1 metal-poor RG

44 VO Science. Case III Discovery of peculiar objects

45 Summary Archives: Fundamental tool for modern astrophysics. Strengths: Efficiency Legacy Weaknesses: Inefficient scientific exploitation Distributed resources / lack of interoperability Huge volumes of data

46 Summary Archives: Fundamental tool for modern astrophysics. Strengths: Efficiency Legacy Weaknesses: Inefficient scientific exploitation Distributed resources / lack of interoperability Huge volumes of data Virtual Observatory

47 Summary Archives: Fundamental tool for modern astrophysics. Strengths: Efficiency Legacy Weaknesses: Inefficient scientific exploitation Distributed resources / lack of interoperability Huge volumes of data Virtual Observatory VO is already an astronomical infrastructure that is producing science. The number of VO-papers is growing. Currently, there are more than 200 papers with Virtual Observatory in the abstract > 3000 citations.

48 Thanks!

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