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. 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). 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.
   

• STILTS: Download the stilts.jar file. MacOS users may need to install JDK to be able to run STILTS. See the documentation here.
  

 For a correct developement of the school, we encourage all participants to test Aladin, TOPCAT and STILTS following this short video and using this file.

 

Day 1. Monday 8 February (09:15h - 13:00h CET)

• 09:15 - 09:30 Reception of participants. Check that everything (zoom, slack, video, audio,...) is working well (Miriam Cortés)

• 09:30 - 09:35 Welcome (Mark Allen)

• 09:35 - 10:00 Introduction on VO and the School (Enrique Solano)

• 10:00 - 12:00 Tutorial #1: Discovery of Brown Dwarfs mining the 2MASS and SDSS databases using Aladin (PDF)

  • 10:00 - 10:15 Presentation of the science case. Introduction to Aladin.

  • 10:15 - 12:00 Hands-on activity by participant

  • VO-tools: Aladin

  • Auxiliary files:

    • Intro

    • Script_aladin_bd

    • Params

  • Tutor: Miriam Cortés

  • Backup tutors: Belén López, Francisco Jiménez, Alba Aller

• 12:00 - 12:15 Break

• 12:15 - 12:30 Questions on the tutorial

• 12:30 - 13:00 Archives in the VO (Enrique Solano)
  

 

Day 2. Tuesday 9 February (09:45h - 13:00h CET)

• 09:45 - 10:00 Time to comment the most relevant discussions on Slack (Miriam Cortés)

• 10:00 - 12:00 Tutorial #1: The CDS tutorial (PDF)

  • 10:00 - 10:15 Presentation of the science case. Introduction to the CDS.10:15 - 12:00 Hands-on activity by participants

  • 10:15 - 12:00 Hands-on activity by participant

  • VO-tools: Simbad, VizieR, Aladin

  • Tutor: Katharina Lutz

  • Backup tutors: Sebastien Derriere, Mark Allen, Hendrik Heinl, Giuglia Iafrate

• 12:00 - 12:15 Break

• 12:15 - 12:30 Questions on the tutorial

• 12:30 - 13:00 pyVO (Hendrik Heinl)
  

  

Day 3. Wednesday 10 February (09:45h - 13:00h CET)

• 09:45 - 10:00 Time to comment the most relevant discussions on Slack (Miriam Cortés)

• 10:00 - 12:00 Tutorial #3: Determination of stellar physical parameters using VOSA (PDF) (updated Feb 9th).
  

  • 10:00 - 10:15 Presentation of the science case. Introduction to VOSA.

  • 10:15 - 12:00 Hands-on activity by participants

  • VO-tools: VOSA

  • Auxiliary files (updated Feb 9th):

    • Intro

    • vosa_usecase_final.txt

    • vosa_excess.txt

    • vosa_extinction.txt

  • Tutor: Enrique Solano

  • Backup tutors: Patricia Cruz, Alba Aller, Francisco Jiménez

• 12:00 - 12:15 Break

• 12:15 - 12:30 Questions on the tutorial

• 12:30 - 13:00 Other VO tools and services (Enrique Solano)

   

Day 4. Thursday 11 February (09:45h - 13:00h CET)

• 09:45 - 10:00 Time to comment the most relevant discussions on Slack (Miriam Cortés)

• 10:00 - 12:00 Tutorial #4: TOPCAT (PDF)

  • 10:00 - 10:15 Presentation of the science case. Introduction to TOPCAT.

  • 10:15 - 12:00 Hands-on activity by participants

  • VO-tools: TOPCAT

  • Prerequisites

  • Tutor: Mark Taylor

  • Backup tutor: Hendrik Heinl

• 12:00 - 12:15 Break

• 12:15 - 12:30 Questions on the tutorial

• 12:30 - 13:00 Big data and the VO (Sebastien Derriere)
  

  • Notes

  

Day 5. Friday 12 February (09:45h - 13:00h CET)

• 09:45 - 10:00 Time to comment the most relevant discussions on Slack (Miriam Cortés)

• 10:00 - 11:00 Tutorial #5: ADQL
  

  • Tutor: Hendrik Heinl

  • Backup tutors: Katharina Lutz, Ada Nebot, Sebastien Derriere, Mark Allen

• 11:00 - 11.30 Feedback and summary of the week (Enrique Solano)

• 11:30 - 11:45 Group picture and wrap-up (Mark Allen)

• 11:45 - 13:00 Participants projects. Instructions for the science cases presentations (Enrique Solano)

 

Day 6. Friday 19 February (09:45h - 13:15h CET)

• 09:45 - 10:00 Time to comment the most relevant discussions on Slack (Miriam Cortés)

• 10:00 - 10:45 Presentations of participants (Katharina Lutz)

  • 10:00 - 10:15 André Rodrigo da Silva: "Confirming atmospheric parameters of peculiar s-/r-process metal-poor stars with VOSA"

  • 10:15 - 10:30 Sagar Sethi: "A sample study of radio galaxy properties using VO tools".

  • 10:30 - 10:45 Cata Flores: "Characterization of protostars using VOSA".

• 10:45 - 11:00 Break

• 11:00 - 11:45 Presentations of participants (Katharina Lutz)

  • 11:00 - 11:15 Sarkis Kassounian

  • 11:15 - 11:30 Adrían Griber: "Exploring Kepler-1661 data using VO Tools and FITS2OSC"

  • 11:30 - 11:45 Mischa Breuhaus: "Gamma-ray emission from star forming regions"