IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM63)

FM63 - 08 May 2016 - Manor House Meeting Room - 16:00 local time

FM63S - 11 May 2016 - Manor House Meeting Room - 12:30 local time

Contents

• IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM63)
  • Logistics
  • Agenda
  • Reports from the Projects
    • Argentina - NOVA
    • ArVO
    • AstroGrid
    • Australia-VO
    • BRAVO
    • China-VO
    • ChiVO
    • CVO
    • Euro-VO
    • ESAVO
    • France VO
    • GAVO
    • HVO
    • VObs.it
    • Japan-VO
    • Ukraine VO
    • USVOA
    • RVO
    • SA^3
    • SVO
    • VO-India
  • Report from the TCG
  • Reports from the WGs

Logistics

Sunday, May 08, 2016 - Manor House Meeting Room @16:00 local time

Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - Manor House Meeting Room @12:30 local time

Agenda FM63

1. Roll Call and Agenda (JE)
2. Minutes of TM62
3. Review of Actions
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. TCG status
6. WG Chairs/Vice Chairs status
7. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
8. Focus Session plans and discussion
9. IVOA social media presence (action from Gus / Giulia)

1. Review WG/IG terms/candidates up for Expiration (See list below)
2. Decision on new IVOA Vice Chair ( at Sunday Exec meeting )
3. AOB
4. Review of Action Items

1. CODATA/WDS session planning
2. Report on SciDataCon session on multi disciplinary interoperability (CA)
3. Decision on WG/IG terms/candidates up for Expiration
   
4. Update on Northern Fall 2016 - Trieste, Italy (Oct 21-23; after ADASS)
   1. registration, logistics
   2. overall planning update
   3. plenary talks and focus sessions planning discussion
5. Future Interops
   • Northern Spring 2017 - Shanghai, China
   • Northern Autumn 2017 - Chile
     
6. Date of Next Exec Meeting
7. AOB
8. Review of Action Items

The following positions will be coming due at the Northern Spring 2016 meeting:

• Theory Interest Group Chair (No extension)
• Time Domain Chair/Vice Chair (Extendable) [C:John Swinbank; VC: Mike Fitzpatrick]
• Executive Committee Vice Chair

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

Astronomical plate digitalization project in China gets good progress in the last months. A special designed scanner has been built. After long time optimizing, now astrometry accuracy is better than 0.2um, and photometry accuracy is better than 0.01 mag. All the 30 thousand plates collected by astronomers during the last century in China will be scanned by the ultra-high-accuracy facility in the next 12 months. All the data will be released to the public through Chinese Virtual Observatory.

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

ESAVO

France VO

GAVO

HVO

VObs.it

Japan-VO

In March 2016 JVO released a new version of the ALMAWebQL system that enables users to access already pulished ALMA archival data on the browser, to browse images and spectra with variable "beam" size and/or frequency range. As of today, the largest file size is about 23 GigaBytes which can be displayed within a few seconds.

The ALMAWebQL version 2 can be accessed from
http://jvo.nao.ac.jp/portal/alma.do

RVO

RVO progress report (Apr 2016)

1. The database of Moscow astronomical plate collection and
maintenance of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (INASAN and SAI
MSU, led by Nikolai Samus)

We published the 81th Name-list of variable stars (2 parts, 4040 objects; available electronically). All stars of the list were identified with major astronomical catalogues, their accurate coordinates were determined. We performed a complete revision of GCVS data for variable stars in Canis Minor (162 stars), Capricornus (139 stars), Carina (837 çâåçä); in many cases, we improved or revised variability types, with new or revised light elements determined from observations accessible in the Internet. New positions were determined, identifications with photometric, spectroscopic, and astrometric catalogues attentively checked and considerably appended, photometric and spectroscopic data corrected (if necessary) for 1300 suspected variable stars (NSV catalogue). We had to rediscover about 150 variable stars with no finding charts in the literature. Variability types and light elements were determined for more than 500 stars, now selected for the next, 82nd Name-list. The electronic GCVS data base got about 5000 corrections and improvements. The GCVS site had about 18000 hits in 2015 (15% of them, from the USA; 13%, from Russia; 7%, from Germany; 7%, from Japan).

We continued our work on digitizing the Sternberg Institute’s plate collection. In 2015, we got high-resolution scans for 185 plates of the 40-cm astrograph (30?30 cm, 10°?10° in size) centered at 61 Cyg. Our earlier scans centered at 104 Her were used to discover 327 new variable stars; 304 stars were suspected of variability; we also detected 340 known variable stars.


2. Working group "RVO data" (INASAN, led by Dana Kovaleva)

The Binary Star Database is available at http://bdb.inasan.ru/ . The BDB aim is to join together all catalogued data on physical and astrometric parameters of binaries and multiples of various observational types. BDB provides a tool for effective managing of the catalogues of binary stars. Organization of the information is based on the careful cross-identification of the objects. This year, the new BDB version was implemented. It includes request processing based on The list of all binary and multiple stars cross-identifiers (named Identification List of Binaries, ILB) that have significantly improved the search algorythms. The process of database debugging is going on, along with adding of the new catalogues and implementation of the IVO formats.

3. Zvenigorod Scanlaboratory Group (INASAN, led by Sergei Vereshchagin)

The archive of photographic plates and scans obtained by Astrograph “Zeiss-400/2000” of the Zvenigorod Observatory (about 4,000 photographic plates and a library of scans) is supported, online access to the database
provided via http://oldwww.inasan.ru/eng/scan/. The database services were recently updated.

2) We work on the creation of the Atlas of comets include images of comets Hale–Bopp, Hyakutake, Kohoutek, Halley, IRAS-Araki-Alcock. The Atlas will include scanned images suitable for astrometry and astrophysics, representing
details of comets tails, including jets, eddges, etc. The archive will be available online.

3) Open star clusters. We have compared new kinematically detected open star clusters out of the MWSC IV catalogue with the Zvenigorod Astrograph plate archive. Archive was obtained by photographic sky survey and was recently scanned. It covers most of the North sky, and this allows to detect a lot of objects. We present a list of the newly discovered open clusters, for the future investigations by our AD- and NND-methods. Additional information for clusters will improve understanding of their morphology, internal structure and parameters.
4. Publications:

Kazarovets E.V., Pastukhova E.N. A Study of 20 Eclipsing Binary Variables from the NSV Catalog. Variable Stars Suppl., V. 15, No. 5 (2015).

Kazarovets E.V., Pastukhova E.N. A Study of 38 Short-period Pulsating Variables from the NSV Catalog. Variable Stars Suppl., V. 15, No. 10 (2015).

Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N. Novae and Nova-like Stars in the 81st Name-List of Variable Stars: Official Announcement of GCVS Names. Variable Stars, V. 35, No. 3, p. 1–2 (2015).

Kazarovets E., Samus N. V1534 Scorpii = Nova Scorpii 2014 = Tcp J17154683-
3128303. IAU Circulars, No. 9273, p. 3 (2015).

Kazarovets E., Samus N. V1535 Scorpii = Nova Scorpii 2015 = Pnv J17032620–
3501140. IAU Circulars, No. 9274, p. 2 (2015).

Kazarovets E., Samus N. V5667 Sagittarii = N Sgr 2015 (No. 1) = Pnv J18142514–
2554343. IAU Circulars, No. 9274, p. 4 (2015).

Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N. The 81st Name-list of Variable Stars. Part I – RA 00h to 17h30m. Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, No. 6151, p. 1–22 (2015).

Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N. The 81st Name-list of Variable Stars. Part II – RA 17h30m to 24h. Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, No. 6155, p. 1–22 (2015).

Samus N.N., Antipin S.V. Variable stars and data-intensive astronomy. Highlights in Astronomy,V. 16, p. 687–688 (2015).

Zubareva A.M., Kolesnikova D.M., Sokolovsky K.V., Antipin S.V., Samus N.N. «Variable Stars Near Beta Cas Discovered on Scanned Photographic Plates at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute». Proceedings of the IX Bulgarian-Serbian Astronomical Conference: Astroinformatics, eds. M.K. Tsvetkov et al., Publ. Astron. Soc. «Rudjer Boskovic», p. 67–74 (2015).

Skvortsov, N. A.; Avvakumova, E. A.; Bryukhov, D. O.; Vovchenko, A. E.; Vol'nova, A. A.; Dluzhnevskaya, O. B.; Kaigorodov, P. V.; Kalinichenko, L. A.; Kniazev, A. Yu.; Kovaleva, D. A.; Malkov, O. Yu.; Pozanenko, A. S.; Stupnikov, S. A.
"Conceptual approach to astronomical problems", 2016, Astrophysical Bulletin 71, 114

Kalinichenko L.A., Volnova A.A., Gordov E.P., Kiselyova N.N., Kovaleva D.A., Malkov O.Yu., Okladnikov I.G., Podkolodny N.L., Pozanenko A.S., Ponomareva N.V.,
Stupnikov S.A., Fazliev A.Z. "Data Access Challenges for Data Intensive Research
in Russia". 2016, Informatics and Applications, Vol. 10, Iss.1, 3

Kovaleva, D.; Kaygorodov, P.; Malkov, O.; Debray, B.; Oblak, E. "Binary star DataBase BDB development: Structure, algorithms, and VO standards implementation", 2015, Astronomy and Computing 11, 119

Kovaleva, D. "Astronomical data resources for binary and multiple stars", 2015,
Baltic Astronomy 24, 446

Kovaleva, D. A.; Malkov, O. Yu.; Kaygorodov, P. V.; Karchevsky, A. V.; Samus, N. N.
"BSDB: a new consistent designation scheme for identifying objects in binary and multiple stars", 2015, Baltic Astronomy 24, 185

Barabanov S.I., Vereshchagin S.V., Chupina N.V. The Collection of Asteroids and Comets Observations Results from the Zvenigorod Astronomical Observatory. Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains Selected Papers of the XVII International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains (DAMDID/RCDL 2015) Obninsk, Russia, October 13-16, 2015. Edited by Leonid Kalinichenko Sergey Starkov, P. 187-194. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1536/

Vereshchagin S.V., and Chupina N.V. Open Star Clusters in the Zvenigorod Observatory Plate Archive. International workshop on scientific use, digitization and preserving astronomical photographic records Prague, Villa Lanna, March 14-18, 2016 in press.

Barabanov S.I., Vereshchagin S.V., Chupina N.V., Fionov A.S. The structure of the observational data Zvenigorod Astronomical Observatory (Institute of Astronomy, RAS, Moscow). In Proceedings of the Fifth All-Russian Symposium "The infrastructure of scientific information resources and systems", St. Petersburg, 6-8 October 2015. Computer Center by Dorodnicyn, Moscow, 2015.

Conferences:

Special Session on "Astronomical catalogues, surveys, databases,
virtual observatories" was organized in the frame of All-Russian meeting of the Astronomical Society, May 29th, 2015.
The XVII International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains (DAMDID/RCDL 2015) Obninsk, Russia, October 13-16, 2015.

The Fifth All-Russian Symposium "The infrastructure of scientific information resources and systems", Saint-Petersburg, October 6-8, 2015.

SA^3

SVO

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

The USVOA met to face at the Jan AAS meeting (details included in Feb telecon notes) and via telecon on April 21. USVOA discussion topics included: IVOA Focus session on new projects, Review of IVOA Roadmap for 2016, request for input from US projects for May IVOA meeting. The telecon attendees were updated on these IVOA topics. From the US/VO perspective, several interesting projects will soon be released. NOAO is working on a release of NOAO Data Lab systems. The overall goal of the Data Lab is to enable efficient exploration and analysis of the large datasets now being generated by instruments on NOAO’s wide-field telescopes. Community access is through VO interfaces. There are Data Lab demoes planned at the Jun AAS. Another significant VO release is planned by JHU this summer. The DR13 release in July will include refactored SDSS services; including SciDrive & VO Services. GSFC reported that they have implemented VO access to observational data for a number of missions. The goal is for all HEAD Image data to be completed by the end of the fiscal year. Spectral data is on the schedule for next year. The NRAO team is rebuilding the NRAO archive and making it VO-enabled. At SAO, Iris 3.0 development continues with a fall public release planned (added STILTS library for plotting/coords, accepts spectral data (not just SEDs)). Also SAO upgrades to RofR are in the release stages, including an independent test setup and upgrades to the validation capabilities. NAVO reported completion their PPBE with NASA in April.

VO-India

Report from the TCG