US VAO

The Virtual Astronomical Observatory The primary emphasis of the VAO is to provide new scientific research capabilities to the astronomy community.

The US Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) is the VO effort based in the US, and it is one of many VO projects currently underway worldwide. Thus an essential component of the VAO activity is obtaining input from US astronomers about the research tools that are most urgently needed in their work, and this information will guide the development efforts of the VAO. Examples of current VAO project

s are given at http://www.usvao.org, and the VAO will maintain a continuing effort to be informed of current astronomy needs and interests.

09/22/2014

VO News: Beyond the VAO. Starting on October 1, 2014, the NASA archives will sustain the key components of the US Virtual Observatory infrastructure developed by the VAO as part of their in-guide funding.

Starting on October 1, 2014, the NASA archives will sustain the key components of the US Virtual Observatory infrastructure developed by the VAO as part of their in-guide funding.

09/10/2014

VO News: VAO Closeout Repository

As previously reported here, funding for the VAO project will discontinue on October 1, 2014. The project closeout plan included a directive from NSF and NASA to make code and digital assets available to the community.

09/03/2014

VO News: VAO Software Release: Data Discovery Tool v1.7

The VAO has released a new version of the Data Discovery Tool (v1.7) on August 25, 2014. With this tool you can find datasets from thousands of astronomical collections known to the VO and over wide areas of the sky. This includes thousands of astronomical collections – photometric catalogs and ima…

08/18/2014

The report from the VAO Closeout Review, held in Pasadena in July 2014, is now available:

The goal of the VAO Close-Out Review was to assess the status of all technical deliverables of the project, understand the curation of project assets and their transfer to the NASA data centers and other organizations, and to review the overall budgetary status and fiduciary responsibilities of the…

07/14/2014

ConferenceViña del Mar Valparaíso Region, CHILE25-29 Aug 2014Astroinformatics is a thriving new discipline that has emerged at the intersection of astronomy/astrophysics, applied mathematics and high performance computing, arising from the need to address the challenges and opportunities of exponent…

05/16/2014

VO News: IVOA Newsletter 012 – May 2014: Theoretical Astrophysical Obs, VOClient, CASSIS spectrum analyzer, and more!

Subscribe | Newsletter archives | Write to the editorsIVOA Newsletter Editors: Mark G. Allen, Deborah Baines, Sarah Emery Bunn, Chenzou Cui, August Muench, Mark Taylor, & Ivan Zolotukhin.

04/07/2014

VO News: VO Client Release – Access the VO from Your Desktop – http://bit.ly/1e9oTnf

The US Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) has released VOClient – a software package that enables direct access to services in the VO from a Unix terminal or scripting environment. The VOClient command-line tools allow you to discover archives and catalogs through queries to the VAO Registry, se...

03/31/2014

VO News: Aladin v8 http://bit.ly/PaSuRX

The Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center has announced an update to the interactive software sky atlas, Aladin (version 8).

02/28/2014

VO News: Comet VOEvent Implementation Update http://bit.ly/1pE7HZm

01/29/2014

VO News: CASSIS Spectrum Analyzer Update http://bit.ly/1cnnd6I

The Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP) has released a new version of CASSIS (3.5), software for the visualization, inspection, and analysis of spectral data.

01/16/2014

VO News: VisIVO Contest 2014 http://bit.ly/1du77YM

This competition is an international call to use technologies provided by the VisIVO Science Gateway to produce images and movies from multi-dimensional datasets coming either from observations or numerical simulations. The competition is open to scientists and citizens alike who are investigating d...

01/08/2014

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