Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira
2020 December 9,10,11
Presentation
The Spanish Virtual Observatory (SVO) is organising a remote VO school for the Comissão de Tecnologia e Ciência de Informação of the Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira (SAB). This course is offered in partnership with SAB as a capaciting building program and it is partly supported by the AYA2017-84089 project.
Goal of the School
The Virtual Observatory (VO) is opening new ways of exploiting the huge amount of data provided by the ever-growing number of ground-based and space facilities, as well as by computer simulations. The goal of the school is twofold:
- Expose participants to the variety of VO tools and services available today so that they can use them efficiently for their own research.
- Gather requirements and feedback from participants.
To achieve these goals, VO experts will lecture and tutor the participants on the usage of VO tools and services. Real-life examples of scientific applications will be given. A large fraction of the time will be dedicated to hands-on exercises, which will allow participants to become fully familiar with the VO capabilities on their own computers.
Important dates
Registragion deadline: 4 December 2020 (closed)
School: 9-11 December 2020
Venue
This school will be given virtually (online) via Zoom and Slack. Instructions on how to install and use both, Zoom and Slack, can be found here.
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 suitable files here. Aladin is compatible with Java releases from Java release 1.7 to the last one.
- TOPCAT: Download the topcat-full.jar file and execute it from a terminal using “java -jar topcat-full.jar”. 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.
- VOSA: Web server (you don’t need to install anything). All participants must register in advance.
- STILTS: Download the stilts.jar file and execute it from a terminal using “java -jar stilts.jar”. MacOS users may need to install JDK to be able to run STILTS.
Day 1. Wednesday 9 December (09:00 – 13:00h BRT)
- 09:00 – 09:15 Reception of participants. Check that everything (Zoom, Slack, video, audio,…) is working well
- 09:15 – 09:20 Welcome (Patricia Cruz)
- 09:20 – 09:50 Introduction to VO and to the School (Enrique Solano)
- 09:50 – 10:20 The Brazilian VO – Status and Challenges (Rafael Santos)
- 10:20 – 10:40 Break
- 10:40 – 12:40 Tutorial #1: Discovery of a brown dwarf using Aladin
- 10:40 – 11:00 Introduction to Aladin. Presentation of the science case. (PDF)
- 11:00 – 12:40 Hands-on activity by participants.
- Tutorial:
- Auxiliary files:
- Tutor: Miriam Cortés
- Backup tutors: Belén López, Francisco Jiménez, Alba Aller
- 12:40 – 13:00 Open time for questions and discussion.
Day 2. Thursday 10 December (09:00 – 13:00h BRT)
- 09:00 – 09:15 Time to comment the most relevant discussions on Slack
- 09:15 – 11:10 Tutorial #2: Determination of the distance to the Pleiades cluster using TOPCAT
- 11:10 – 11:30 Break
- 11:30 – 12:40 Tutorial #3: How to use ADQL
- 12:40 – 13:00 Open time for questions and discussion.
Day 3. Friday 11 December (09:00 – 13:00h BRT)
- 09:00 – 09:15 Time to comment the most relevant discussions on Slack
- 09:15 – 11:10 Tutorial #4: Determination of stellar physical parameters using VOSA
- 09:15 – 09:35 Introduction to VOSA. Presentation of the science case. (PDF)
- 09:35 – 11:10 Hands-on activity by participants.
- Tutorial:
- Auxiliary files:
- Tutor: Patricia Cruz
- Backup tutors: Alba Aller, Miriam Cortés, Francisco Jiménez
- 11:10 – 11:30 Break
- 11:30 – 12:00 Everything you always wanted to know about VO but never dared to ask (Enrique Solano)
- Informal discussion on the tutorials, tools and other VO-related topics (VO archives).
- 12:00 – 12:30 Feedback
- 12:30 – 12:45 Group picture and Wrap-up
- Test yourself with the following challenges!
- Challenge #0: Repeat the search for brown dwarfs in 2MASS and SDSS described with Aladin using TOPCAT and STILTS (solutions here).
- Challenges #1 to #5
- Bonus material:
The following tutorial is given as aditional material for those who want to learn more about ADQL.
- Identifying Brown Dwarf Candidates with ADQL (PDF)
Language
The official language of the school will be English, hence, all the courses, tutorials and the available material will be given in English.
Registration
The registration is open for all members of SAB, from undergrad students to researchers. We strongly encourage postgraduate students to apply.
Important notice: the number of participants is limited to 60 and the registration will be closed when this limit is reached.
The registration form can be accessed here. No registration fee is required.
Certificates: The certificates will be given ONLY to those participants who have attended to at least 80% of the course.
List of participants
73 people registered
| First Name | Last Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Alessandro | Ederoclite | University of Sao Paulo (IAG/USP) |
| Ana | Figueiredo | UFRN |
| Ana Carolina | Buzelim dos Santos | UFMG |
| Antonio Mario | Magalhaes | IAG-USP |
| Arthur | Magalhães | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Beatriz | Zacarias | IAG – USP |
| Carolina | Duarte | Universidade de São Paulo – Instituto de Astronomia Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas |
| Carolina Queiroz | Silva | University of Sao Paulo |
| Caroline | Gonçalves | UFRJ |
| CESAR AUGUSTO | HUANCA CONDORI | UMSA |
| Cynthia | Herkenhoff | UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) |
| Eduardo | Albuquerque Hartmann | UFRGS |
| Eduardo | Machado Pereira | Valongo Observatory |
| ELIS CRISTINA | SILVA SALES | Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana |
| Erica | Bhering | UFRJ |
| Erik Vinicius | Lima | IAG – USP |
| Fabiana | Lima Costa | ON – Observatório Nacional |
| Felipe | Busto Gallo | Valongo Observatory |
| Florence | De Almeida | Universidade de Sao Paulo |
| Francielle | Silva | Valongo Observatory (UFRJ) |
| Francisco | Jablonski | INPE/MCTIC |
| Fredi | Quispe Huaynasi | Observatorio Nacional de Río de Janeiro |
| Gabriel | Zuza Diniz | UFRN |
| Giovana | Santos Oliveira | University of São Paulo |
| Giovanna | Liberato Cezar | Valongo Observatory |
| Giulia | Martos | IAG/USP |
| Hellen | Pereira | UFRGS |
| Jarbas | Cordeiro Sampaio | Sergipe Federal Institute |
| João | Machado | UFRN |
| Jonatã | Arcas Silva | Valongo Observatory |
| José | Souza | UEFS |
| juliana | sanches | UNIFEI |
| Larissa | Takeda | Universidade de Sao Paulo – IAG |
| Leonardo | Becegato | University of Sao Paulo |
| Lucia Helena | Horta Oliveira | Exoss |
| Luiz | Sampaio Athayde Junior | 2019 |
| Luna | Espinosa | IAG-USP |
| M. Belén | Mari | Observatório do Valongo – UFRJ |
| Mackson | Nepomuceno | UFERSA |
| Marcelo | De Cicco | SAB |
| Márcia | Domingues | INPE |
| Marco Antonio | Canossa Gosteinski | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – Brasil |
| Marco Aurélio | Laversveiler Paiva | Observatório do Valongo |
| Maria Clara | Alvarenga | Valongo Observatory (UFRJ) |
| Maria Jaqueline | Vasconcelos | LATO-UESC |
| Mariana | Gomes | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| Mariana | Navia | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Mateus | Guimarães | SAB / UFRGS |
| Mateus | Ribeiro | UFRJ |
| Matheus | Bernini Peron | OV/UFRJ |
| Matheus | Castro | Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences of University of São Paulo |
| Michele | Bertoldo Coêlho | UFRGS |
| Morgan | Camargo | Universidade de São Paulo |
| Natanael | de Oliveira | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Oscar | Cavichia | UNIFEI |
| Paola | Cunha | Valongo Observatory |
| Paula | Coelho | University of Sao Paulo (IAG/USP) |
| Pedro Pinheiro | Cabral | Federal University of Rio do Norte (UFRN) |
| RAFAEL | FERREIRA | UFRN |
| Rafael | Martinez | Federal University of Amapá |
| Rafael | Santos | INPE |
| Rayssa | Silva | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Rosiane Carneiro | Da Rosa | Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira |
| Sanzia | Alves | UFRB |
| Thayse | Pacheco | USP |
| Thiago Bueno | Dalpiaz | Valongo Observatory (UFRJ) |
| Toni | Cordeiro de Almeida | UEFS |
| Ulisses | Barres de Almeida | Brazilian Center for Physics Research |
| Verónica | Loaiza Tacuri | Observatorio Nacional de Río de Janeiro |
| VINICIUS | BRANCO | IAG/USP |
| Wandeclayt | Melo | Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço |
| Welton Carlos | Ferreira SIlva | IAG USP |
| Yanna | Martins-Franco | Valongo Observatory (UFRJ) |
Organisation
Patricia Cruz, Miriam Cortés, Enrique Solano, Francisco Jiménez, Belén López, Alba Aller, Carlos Rodrigo
Contact
pcruz@cab.inta-csic.es or mcortes@cab.inta-csic.es