VO Activities at ESO ECF Paolo Padovani, ESO Head, VO Systems Department, DMD AVO Science Manager

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VO Activities at ESO (ECF) Paolo Padovani,
ESOHead, VO Systems Department, DMD AVO
Science Manager
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ESO Paranal
10 instruments offered at last call (Oct. 1)
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ESO La Silla
9 instruments offered at last call (Oct. 1)
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The ESO archive
(compressed)
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The ESO archive VO challenges

• Ground-based calibrations/observing conditions
  changing on a nightly basis
• Varied 20 different instruments, ranging from
  imagers and spectrographs to polarizers and
  interferometers
• Evolving 2nd generation VLT instruments coming
• Large currently 10 Tb (compressed), expected
  growth x 100 in the next 8 years

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Our Plans

• New VO Systems department created in the
  Data Management Operations Division (DMD) on
  Nov. 1 to formalize ESO VO work. Its tasks
• make the ESO archive into a real scientific
  resource for the ESO community by
• creating, ingesting, and publishing Advanced
  Data Products (ADP) science ready, level 3
• making the archive VO-compliant provide access
  via VO standards and tools
• develop VO technology, standards, and tools via
  participation to the VO-Tech project
• develop the VO Facility Centre

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VOS Dept.
VOSystems Paolo Padovani
Advanced Data Products Piero Rosati
Facility Centre
VO Technology Markus Dolensky
Paul Harrison Marco Leoni NN (hiring in prog.) NN
(hiring in prog.)
Andreas Wicenec
Nausicaa Delmotte Jörg Retzlaff Charles
Rite Remco Slijkhuis 1/4 ESO Fellow 1.5 visitors
12.25 FTEs, 2 EC funded (VO-TECH)
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Our immediate objectives

• Deliver a new science-oriented archive interface
  by April 1, 2005, when the ESO archive opens to
  the world (final decision by ESO Council Dec. 7 -
  8) ? be ready for
  non-ESO users
• Evaluate ESO pipelines and EIS system, assess
  priorities for the creation of ESO ADP, and start
  producing them (likely choices WFI 4 of the
  Southern sky and UVES)
• Prepare guidelines to receive ADP from the ESO
  community (required for Large Programs as of P.
  75) ? use GOODS and EIS ESO ADP as real-life
  example
• Get involved with the VO-Tech project and lead
  our main task, New User Tools

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GOODS data
GOODS/ESO FORS2 interface output
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The ST-ECF HST archive (A. Micol)

• Aim Increase HST/ESO Scientific Archive
  Usability
• How
• Science-friendly user interfaces
• Enhanced data products
• Enhanced description/characterisation of
• Data Products (metadata)
• Scientific contents of Data Products
• Interoperability

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The ST-ECF HST archive (A. Micol)

• Hubble Space Telescope Science Archive (4TB
  compressed)
• Reduced Products
• On-The-Fly Recalibration (since 1995), best
  software and reference files
• FOS enhanced calibration (physical modelling)
• Enhanced Products (in collab. with CADC and
  STScI)
• WFPC2 associations, deep clean products. New
  version soon.
• ACS associations (in the making)
• GOODS/ESO Archive
• Data management User Interfaces

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The ST-ECF HST archive (A. Micol)

• VO activities
• AstroVirTel (AVO Precursor 2000-2003)
• User requirements for both the ECF/ESO Archive
  and the VO
• Various published results and achievements, e.g.,
  Querator a
• multi-instrument multi-wavelength search engine.
• VO Development making the HST (and ESO) archive
  VO compliant
• Instrumental Characteristics Database,
  IDHA/SSAP/SIAP, VOQuerator, etc.