IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM87)

when: October 10, 2019, 2-4pm local time

where: ADASS Venue (Martini Plaza) Room 11

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Draft Agenda FM87

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of TM86
3. Review of ACTIONS
4. Project Reports
5. Overall TCG Status
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s)
7. Renewal of IVOA Exec Chair and Vice Chair roles
8. IVOA codes of conduct
9. CAOM
10. Future Interops: Sydney May 2020 (Simon O'Toole)
11. Date of next Exec meeting
12. Review of New Action Items

Reports from the Projects

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

ESA

France VO - Action Spécifique Observatoires Virtuels France (ASOV)

GAVO

HVO

JVO

RVO

RVO_2019_report.pdf

SA^3

SVO

• SVO Data Centre
  • Development of pipelines to ingest science-ready data into the Calar Alto and GTC VO-compliant archives

• VO-science: 4 refereed papers including SVO staff.
  • The ssos pipeline: Identification of Solar System objects in astronomical images (2019A&C....2800289M)
  • Extended halo of NGC 2682 (M 67) from Gaia DR2 (2019A&A...627A.119C)
  • J-PLUS: Discovery and characterisation of ultracool dwarfs using Virtual Observatory tools (2019A&A...627A..29S).
  • The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Different roads to radii and masses of the target stars (2019A&A...625A..68S) → Featured Science Publication in IVOA Newsletters

• Tools: VOSA
  • Ten new refereed papers using VOSA (since May 2019)
  • More than 500 new users have analysed ~ 1 000 000 objects in 2019.
• E&O
  • Development and maintenance of VO-compliant archives for the amateur community (e.g. https://sdc.cab.inta-csic.es/ObCP)

Vo-India

Vobs.it

Ukraine_VO

USVOA/SAO/CXC

Completed the Chandra Source Catalog production - CSC2.0 is planned for an October release. VO services including Simple cone search (Csc2scs), Simple image access protocol (Csc2siap), Table access protocol (Csc2tap) will also be released. An intuitive user interface utilizing WWT is also planned for released and is being demoed along with all of the interfaces to CSC2 at the Chandra Booth at ADASS.
A Focus demo at ADASS is planned titled: High Impact Data Availability using Community Standards and Tools - the Chandra Experience; High impact tools and products made available to the community with takeup of IVOA standards will be highlighted. 2 examples are HIPs products of our archive data that provide interactive visualization of Chandra images and use of WWT where we have added a customized layer to provide an interactive interface to the Chandra Source Catalog.
Continued support for the IVOA RofR operations - validation of Registries and implementation of actions from a telecon ealier this year were completed.
Wrapped up efforts on the Measurement & Coordinate Data Model and brought them to RFC on 9/13; the Transform mode is close behind

USVOA/NAVO

USVOA/LSST

• Took a lead in reinvigorating the development of pyvo within the Astropy community.
• Added auth support to pyvo suitable for LSST, CADC, and ESAC.
• Prototyped a SODA server written in Python.
• Worked with the new STC2 standards to investigate serialization forms. This has led to discovery of some issues with the proposed standards.

Report from the TCG

Report from the Working Groups