This draft standard describes a means to present usage examples for
TAP services in a way that is partially machine readable while
primarily being consumable by humans. This is now part of DALI;
identifiers created as fragments into this record are invalid and must
now point to fragments of http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/examples.
This authority is used to assign Creator DIDs to TheoSSA spectra. For
historical reasons, these Creator DIDs are not resolvable (we would
have to create one registry record per spectrum then). Please consider
them opaque strings.
The tutorial uses VOSA to analyse members of the Collinder 69 open
cluster by crossmatching a given local set of objects and accesses VO
services to crossmatch the objects with 2MASS to receive colors. The
resulting SEDs are analysed using different fit functions.
Within this use case you learn about the constellations of the
Zodiac, i.e. those crossed by the apparent path of the Sun during the
year. Together with some characteristics the orbital motion of the
Earth, in this use case you also find a short excursion into history
of astronomy. The use case also introduces the precession of the
equinoxes.
Within this use case you discover the shape and thickness of the disc
of our own Galaxy by counting stars within and around the Milky Way.
With the use of both Aladin and Stellarium you draw the line
corresponding to the disc of the Milky Way in a coordinate diagram.
GAVO's ADQL reference card briefly gives an overview of the SQL
dialect used in the VO. It is available as a PDFfile and as Scribus
source under the CC-BY license.
The GAVO puzzlers are little training problems solvable by standard
VO techniques (data discovery, SIAP, Cone Search, TAP). They assume
some familiarity with common astronomical concepts (they were
originally given out during meetings of the German Astronomische
Gesellschaft) but are designed to be solvable using common, standard
tools and in reasonable time. Solutions are also given.
The Global TAP schema is an attempt at a simple way to present a
union of all TAP_SCHEMA instances globally, where right now GloTS only
contains tables and columns. It is primarily intended as a quick (and
relatively dirty) way for data collection discovery until other means
are ready.
This tutorial employs the Aladin VO client to explore neutral
hydrogen shells around the SMC; it demonstrates using image servers,
catalog servers, and advanced overplotting within Aladin.