IAA, Granada
11-12 noviembre 2025
Presentation
The Spanish Virtual Observatory (SVO), in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía and ISDEFE, S.A., S.M.E., M.P., is organizing a VO School. The school will take place at IAA premises (Salón de Actos / Auditorium) on November 11–12, 2025.
Purpose of the School
The main goal of the school is to introduce participants to the capabilities of the Virtual Observatory for accessing and analyzing data from astronomical archives.
Participants will become familiar with key Virtual Observatory tools by working through tutorials based on real scientific cases. Expert tutors from the Spanish Virtual Observatory will provide guidance throughout the school.
The school will be conducted entirely in English.
Programme
It is important to have installed beforehand in your laptops the VO-tools to be used in the School, namely:
- ALADIN: Download the Aladin.jar file (Linux users only) and execute it from a terminal using “java -jar Aladin.jar”. MacOS and Windows users: download the files here. Aladin is compatible with Java releases from Java release 1.7 to the last one. More information here
- TOPCAT: Download the topcat-full.jar file and execute it from a terminal using “java -jar topcat-full.jar” (Linux and Windows users. For windows users, double-click on the topcat-full.jar file may also work ). MacOS users: download the suitable file here. TOPCAT is written in the Java language using the Java 2 Standard Edition version 8, and should run on any Java SE 8 or more recent system. See the documentation here
- VOSA:Web server (you don’t need to install anything). All participants must register in advance)
Day 1. Tuesday 11 November
- 09:30 – 09:40 Welcome and Logistics (Javier Moldón)
- 09:40 – 10:00 Introduction to VO and the School (Enrique Solano). (PDF)
- 10:00 – 11:00 Tutorial #1: Accessing astronomical data through Python
- Python resources for VO
- MOCPy by VO
- Tutors: Ricardo Rizzo
- Backup tutors: Francisco Jiménez, Patricia Cruz
- 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 – 12:30 Tutorial #1 (cont.)
- 12:30 – 13:30 Tutorial #2: Discovery of Brown Dwarfs mining the 2MASS and SDSS databases using Aladin.
- Aladin GUI tutorial
- Python workflow
- Tutor: Enrique Solano
- Backup tutors: Francisco Jiménez
- 13:30 – 15.30 Lunch
- 15:30 – 16:30 Tutorial #2 (cont.)
- 16:30 – 17:00 Talk. “VO science success histories” (Enrique Solano) (PDF)
- 17:00 – 17:30 Cofee break
- 17:30 – 18:30 Work on Tutorials #1 and #2 and/or participants’ use cases
Day 2. Wednesday 12 November
- 09:00 – 11:00 Tutorial #3: Determination of the distance to the Pleiades cluster using TOPCAT
- Tutor: Francisco Jiménez
- Backup tutors: Ricardo Rizzo, Enrique Solano
- 11:00 – 11:30 Coffe break
- 11:30 – 13:30 Tutorial #4: VOSA
- Tutor: Patricia Cruz
- Backup tutors: Francisco Jiménez, Enrique Solano
- 13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
- 15:30 – 16:30 Work on Tutorials #3 and #4 and/or participants’ use cases
- 16:30 – 17:00 Feedback and wrap-up
Bonus material:
Have a look at the Spanish VO Zenodo repository to find more VO-science tutorials.
Registration
The registration period is already finished However, if you still wish to attend the meeting, please contact us.
and your registration will be considered (svo_handson@cab.inta-csic.es).
Lunches
Lunch will not be provided by the organization. Below you can find a list of places near IAA.
– Cafetería “Donde Siempre”, C. Primavera, 24, Genil, 18008 Granada
– Mesón “El Labrador”, C. Sancho Panza, 10, Genil, 18008 Granada
– Pizzería “Las Villas”, Calle Prof. Manuel Garzón Pareja, 9, Genil, 18008 Granada
– Cafetería “Rodri”, C. Reina Mora, Zaidín, 18008 Granada
– Bar “Romero”, C. Primavera, 22, Zaidín, 18008 Granada
– Restaurante “Las Delicias”, C. Andrés Segovia 30-32, 18006 Granada España
– Pizzería “Fralisani”, C. Mercedes Gaibrois, 6, Genil, 18008 Granada
– Bar “Los Infantes”, C. Camino Bajo de Huétor, s/n, Genil, 18008 Granada
Organizers
This event is supported by the “Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa” award to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía and the Spanish Virtual Observatory project (INTA-CSIC). We acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S and grant PID2023-146210NB-I00, both funded by MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. We also acknowledge scientific support from ISDEFE, S.A., S.M.E., M.P.
List of participants
20 people registered
| First Name | Last Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Clara | Valle Gómez | CITIC |
| Daniel | Ariza Quintana | IAA |
| David | Moreno Pérez | Universidad de Granada |
| Emilio J. | Alfaro | IAA-CSIC |
| Fabricio Manuel | Pérez Toledo | Gran Telescopio Canarias |
| Ines | Amestoy | Université de Toulouse, France |
| Iván | Agudo | IAA-CSIC |
| JANIS | RODRIGUEZ | IAA-CSIC |
| Javier | Méndez-Gallego | IAA-CSIC |
| Javier | Moldon | IAA-CSIC |
| Jorge | García García | IAA-CSIC |
| Josafat | González Rodríguez | Universidad de La Laguna |
| Jose Luis | Ortiz Moreno | Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia-CSIC, Granada |
| Leonardos | Gkouvelis | University of Munich |
| María | Álvarez Santiago | Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía |
| Marie | KORSAGA | IAA |
| Paula | Kornecki | IAA-CSIC |
| Rubén | Sánchez-Ramírez | IAA-CSIC |
| sabyasachi | goswami | IAA |
| Sebastiano | de Franciscis | IAA-CSIC |
Contact
For any questions, please contact us at: esm@cab.inta-csic.es