Program

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. 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.
   

• 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. Friday 15 October (09:15h - 14:00h)

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

• 09:30 - 10:00 Introduction to VO and the School (Enrique Solano)

• 10:00 - 11:50 Tutorial #1: Discovery of Brown Dwarfs mining the 2MASS and SDSS databases using Aladin (PDF)

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

  • 10:10 - 11:40 Hands-on activity by participant

  • 11:40 - 11:50 Questions about the tutorial

    • VO-tools: Aladin

  • Auxiliary files:

    • Intro

    • Script_aladin_bd

    • Params

  • Host: Belén López

  • Tutor: Miriam Cortés

  • Backup tutors: Enrique Solano, Francisco Jiménez

• 11:50 - 12:10 Break

• 12:10 - 14:00 Tutorial #2: Determination of the distance to the Pleiades cluster using TOPCAT (PDF)

  • 12:10 - 12:20 Presentation of the science case. Introduction to TOPCAT. (PDF)

  • 12:20 - 13:50 Hands-on activity by participants

  • 13:50 - 14:00 Questions about the tutorial

    • Host : Francisco Jiménez

    • Tutor: Belén López
      

    • Backup tutor: Patricia Cruz, Miriam Cortés
      

Day 2. Friday 17 December (09:15 - 13:45h)

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

• 09:30 - 11:30 Tutorial #3: Determination of stellar physical parameters using VOSA (PDF).
  

  • 09:30 - 09:40 Presentation of the science case. Introduction to VOSA.

  • 09:40 - 11:10 Hands-on activity by participants

  • 11:10 - 11:20 Questions about the tutorial

  • VO-tools: VOSA

  • Auxiliary files (updated Feb 9th):

    • Intro

    • vosa_usecase_final.txt

    • vosa_excess.txt

    • vosa_extinction.txt

  • Host: Miriam Cortés

  • Tutor: Patricia Cruz
    

  • Backup tutors: Belén López, Francisco Jiménez
    

• 11:20 - 11:40 Break

• 11:40 - 12:30 Tutorial #5: ADQL
  

  • Host: Patricia Cruz

  • Tutor: Francisco Jiménez
    

  • Backup tutors: Miriam Cortés, Belén López
    

• 12:30 - 13:10 Other VO tools and services (Enrique Solano)

• 13:10 - 13:45 Feedback and open time for discussion (Enrique Solano)

• Bonus material:

  • The CDS tutorial (PDF)
  • Exploring Gaia with TOPCAT and STILTS (PDF)
  • Astronomical archives along the history (presentation. PDF)
  • Brown dwarfs case with ADQL (PDF)