Programme:

Day 1. 19 October 2010:
Room B3/B5

• 09:30 - 10:45: Introductory Talks
  • 09:30: Welcome and Introduction to the VO
  • 09:50: Introduction to VO Tools
  • 10:20: Examples of Science at ESAC using VO Tools
  • 10:40: Summary for the next two days
• 10:45 - 11:15: Setting up the Software
  • ALADIN: Load Aladin with one of the following options:
    • Execute Web Start from the Aladin download page: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/nph-aladin.pl?frame=downloading
    • Download the Aladin.jar file from http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/nph-aladin.pl?frame=downloading and execute in the command line with: java -Xmx512m -jar Aladin.jar
  • TOPCAT: Load TOPCAT with one of the following options:
    • Execute Web Start from http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/#webstart
    • Download the topcat-full.jar file from http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/#standalone and execute in the command line with: java -Xmx512m -jar topcat-full.jar
  • VOSPEC: Load VOSpec with one of the following options:
    • Execute the Applet or the Web Start from http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/vospec
    • Download the VOSpec_6.0.jar from http://esavo01.esac.esa.int/vospec/standalone/VOSpec_6.0.jar and execute in the command line with: java -Xmx512m -jar VOSpec_6.0.jar
  • VOSED:
    • Use VOSED directly at http://sdc.cab.inta-csic.es/vosed/
  • VODESKTOP:
    • Download the VODesktop jar file from http://www.astrogrid.org/files/vodesktop-1.3.2.app.jar and execute in the command line with: java -Xmx512m -jar vodesktop-1.3.2.app.jar
  • STILTS:
    • Download the stilts.jar file from http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/stilts/#install
• 11:15 - 11:45: Coffee
• 11:45 - 13:30: Use Case 1: Searching for Data available for the bright galaxy M51
• 13:30 - 14:45: Lunch
• 14:45 - 16:30: Use Case 2: Discovery of Brown Dwarfs mining the 2MASS and SDSS databases
• 16:30 - 17:00: Coffee
• 17:00 - 18:30: Use Case 3: Classifying the SEDs of Herbig Ae/Be stars

Day 2. 20 October 2010:
Room B3/B5

• 09:30 - 11:00: Use Case 4: Confirmation of a Supernova candidate
• 11:00 - 11:30: Coffee
• 11:30 - 13:30: Development of participants own science cases (or participants can carry on with other tutorials)
• 13:30 - 15:00: Lunch
• 15:00 - 16:30: Development of participants own science cases
• 16:30 - 17:00: Coffee
• 17:00 - 18:00: Conclusions and Feedback session

ESAC Science Archive and VO Team - 2010