Demo at University of St Andrews

28 July 2006

Attendance

AstroGrid AnitaRichards

St Andrews: Khalid Alsubai, Andrew Cameron, Simon Driver, Nick Dunstone, Tom Lloyd Evans, Jane Greaves, Keith Horne, Moira Jardine, Chris Poulton, Neil Symington

In 1 hour we started the Workbench and used AstroScope to find and display spectra and images in VOSpec and Aladin. Many people already use TopCat. Other functions such as the ready-made parameterised workflows for making photometric redshifts etc. and the MERLIN Imager were briefly demonstrated.

Issues raised

• Astroscope
  • Selection by wavelength and time as well as position
  • Display of wavelength and time as well as spatial coordinates when data are returned
    • As data providers may not give this information there needs to be some way of defaulting to 'all' in either domain.
  • Want to select lightcurves for e.g. AGN variability, stars
    • Does AGN Watch publish to VOs?
    • Extra lightcurves sector along with images, catalogues, spectra?
• Can we provide Gaia as a compatible tool?
  • Already under development!
• VOSpec
  • Need to make it easier to see which segments correspond to which named spectra e.g. in order to remove unwanted spectra from the display.