VOExplorer: Visualising data discovery in the Virtual Observatory

Jonathan A. Tedds; Noel Winstanley; Andrew Lawrence; Nicholas Walton; Elizabeth Auden; Silvia Dalla; Andrew Lawrence

VOExplorer: Visualising data discovery in the Virtual Observatory

Jonathan A. Tedds, Noel Winstanley, Andrew Lawrence, Nicholas Walton, Elizabeth Auden, Silvia Dalla, Andrew Lawrence

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The UK AstroGrid 5 project has developed the VOExplorer interface to the VO as part of its forthcoming Desktop suite of applications. VOExplorer offers a powerful data-centric visualisation for browsing and filtering the entire VO registry using an iTunes type interface. We demonstrate how this allows the user to bookmark their own personalised lists of resources and to run tasks on the selected resources as desired. Thus VOExplorer significantly simplifies returning relevant data to queries such as "find me all extended X-ray sources in the 2XMM catalog", and then export to a new catalogue or "find me all optical, near-IR and X-ray catalogued objects within 0.1 arcmins of a new transient Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) event" and now even "find me all transient events from e.g. GCN, IAU alerts previously recorded for this search radius". HelioScope similarly searches solar archives within a given time interval. We demonstrate how the user is then offered the opportunity to process and act on those data sets. For this purpose a range of data visualisation and analytical tools are now available to pass data into and between directly. These include TopCat for catalogues, Aladin and Gaia for images, SPLAT and VOSpec for spectra or a simple ADQL query interface for more advanced use cases.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XVII
Editors	Robert W. Argyle, Peter S. Bunclark, James R. Lewis
Place of Publication	SAN FRANCISCO
Publisher	ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC
Pages	159-162
Number of pages	4
Volume	394
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-58381-659-2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-58381-658-5
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	17th Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems - London Duration: 23 Sep 2007 → 26 Sep 2007

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Name	Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems ASP Conference Series

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Conference	17th Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems
City	London
Period	23/09/07 → 26/09/07

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Tedds, J. A., Winstanley, N., Lawrence, A., Walton, N., Auden, E., Dalla, S., & Lawrence, A. (2008). VOExplorer: Visualising data discovery in the Virtual Observatory. In R. W. Argyle, P. S. Bunclark, & J. R. Lewis (Eds.), Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XVII (Vol. 394, pp. 159-162). (Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems ASP Conference Series). ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ASPC..394..159T

Tedds, Jonathan A. ; Winstanley, Noel ; Lawrence, Andrew et al. / VOExplorer: Visualising data discovery in the Virtual Observatory. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XVII. editor / Robert W. Argyle ; Peter S. Bunclark ; James R. Lewis. Vol. 394 SAN FRANCISCO : ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC, 2008. pp. 159-162 (Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems ASP Conference Series).

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Tedds, JA, Winstanley, N, Lawrence, A, Walton, N, Auden, E, Dalla, S & Lawrence, A 2008, VOExplorer: Visualising data discovery in the Virtual Observatory. in RW Argyle, PS Bunclark & JR Lewis (eds), Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XVII. vol. 394, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems ASP Conference Series, ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC, SAN FRANCISCO, pp. 159-162, 17th Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems, London, 23/09/07. <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ASPC..394..159T>

VOExplorer: Visualising data discovery in the Virtual Observatory. / Tedds, Jonathan A.; Winstanley, Noel; Lawrence, Andrew et al.

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XVII. ed. / Robert W. Argyle; Peter S. Bunclark; James R. Lewis. Vol. 394 SAN FRANCISCO : ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC, 2008. p. 159-162 (Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems ASP Conference Series).

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Tedds JA, Winstanley N, Lawrence A, Walton N, Auden E, Dalla S et al. VOExplorer: Visualising data discovery in the Virtual Observatory. In Argyle RW, Bunclark PS, Lewis JR, editors, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XVII. Vol. 394. SAN FRANCISCO: ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC. 2008. p. 159-162. (Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems ASP Conference Series).

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