IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM124)
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 16:30 CET (Valletta, Malta local time) / 15:30 UTC
Physical Location: University of Malta, Valletta campus, Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy, Room 103
Virtual: Zoom (
https://aao.zoom.us/j/84831315252?pwd=TjJZb0VBRVgxcDZ1cVVqTENZMWNMZz09; passcode: 581668)
Contents
Agenda
- Roll call and agenda
- Review and approval of TM123 Minutes
- Review of ACTIONS_for_TM124.pdf
- Report on the IAU General Assembly
- Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
- Overall TCG Status [Standing Item]
- Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
- CSP Status
- P3T Report
- IVOA Website [New Standing Item]
- Proposal to use the IVOA newsletter to recruit a volunteer(s) to coordinate feedback and improvements on the IVOA website.
- Draft new website available: https://webtest.ivoa.info/
- Future Interop meetings
- Northern Spring 2025 - Maryland, USA
- Northern Fall 2025
- Date of next Exec meeting
- AOB
- Review of new actions
Reports from the Projects
NOVA (Argentina)
ArVO (Armenia)
ASVO (Australia)
BRAVO (Brazil)
China-VO
CVO (Canada)
ESA (Europe)
ESASky version 7.0 released early November containing an interactive Time-Series Viewer for detailed inspection of public time-series data from Gaia DR3 epoch photometry, XMM-Newton EPIC photometry and XMM-Newton OM photometry. This release also contains the latest version of the XMM-OM serendipitous ultraviolet source survey catalogue (XMM-SUSS6.2) and an upgrade to the latest Aladin Lite sky visualisation (from CDS), which contains support to FITS
HiPS, integrated FITS controls within the skies panel (e.g. changing the sky stretch, cuts and blending) and new sky projections (e.g. Spheric, Tangential, Aitoff, Mollweide…).
Euro-VO (Europe)
GAVO (Germany)
JVO (Japan)
Kazakhstan VO
NLVO (Netherlands)
OV-France
RVO (Russia)
SA^3 (South Africa)
SKAO (Square Kilometre Array Observatory; Australia & South Africa)
SVO (Spain)
USVOA (United States)
The USVOA continues to actively support IVOA developments and meetings.
The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Chandra team has been particularly active in the debate of high energy astrophysics standards and is one of the leading proponents of the establishment of a working group in this area.
VO-India
VObs.it (Italy)
Report from the TCG
Report from the CSP