ASTERICS Wiki pages

It is important to have installed beforehand in your laptops the VO-tools to be used in the School, namely:

• ALADIN (Download the aladin.jar file and execute it from a terminal using “java -jar aladin.jar”)
• TOPCAT (Download the topcat-full.jar file and execute it from a terminal using “java -jar topcat-full.jar”)
• VOSA (Web server)
• STILTS (Download the stilts.jar file and execute it from a terminal using “java -jar stilts.jar”)

Day 1. Tuesday 15 December

• 08:15 Bus leaving hotel to CAB-Villafranca
• 09:15 Arrival at CAB-Villafranca. Registration
• 09:30 - 10:15 Introductory talks
  • 09:30 - 09:35 Welcome and logistics (Enrique Solano)
  • 09:35 - 09:50 The ASTERICS project (Francoise Genova)
  • 09:50 - 10:15 Introduction to the VO (Enrique Solano)

• 10:15 - 11:15 Tutorial #1 (1h45m).
  • Title: The CDS portal (LAST UPDATE: Nov 5th).
  • VO-tools: Simbad, Vizier, Aladin
  • Tutor: Ada Nebot + Caroline Bot + F. X. Pineau

• 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break

• 11:45 - 12:30 Tutorial #1 (cont.).

• 12:30 - 13:30 Tutorial #2 (1h45m)
  • Title: Discovery of Brown Dwarfs mining the 2MASS and SDSS databases
  • VO-tools: Aladin, Topcat
  • Tutor: F. Jiménez + E. Solano + G. Iafrate

• 13:30 - 15:00 LUNCH

• 15:00 - 15:45 Tutorial #2 (cont)

• 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break

• 16:15 - 18:00 Tutorial #3 (1h45m)
  • Title: Classifying the SEDs of Herbig Ae/Be stars
  • VO-tools: SPLAT
  • Tutor: H. Heinl + F. Jiménez + M. Molinaro

• 18:15 Bus leaving CAB-Villafranca to hotel

Day 2. Wednesday 16 December

• 08:30 Bus leaving hotel to CAB-Villafranca
• 09:30 - 11:15 Tutorial #4 (1h45m)
  • Title: Determination of stellar physical parameters using VOSA (Last update Dec 2nd).
  • VO-tools: VOSA
  • Tutor: E. Solano, F. Jiménez + G. Iafrate

• 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break

• 11:45 - 13:30 Tutorial #5 (1h45m)
  • Title: Multi-instrument, multi-wavelength study of high energy sources with the virtual Observatory. (Last update: Nov 5th)
  • VO-tools: Aladin, Topcat, Simbad
  • Tutor: Caroline Bot + Ada Nebot + F.X. Pineau

• 13:30 - 15:00 LUNCH

• 15:00 - 16:30 Tutorial #6 (1h)
  • Title: Advanced functionalities in TOPCAT
  • VO-tools:
  • Tutor: Mark Taylor

• 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

• 17:00 - 18:00 Tutorial #7 (1h)
  • Title: Treasure hunt
  • VO-tools:
  • Tutor: E. Solano + M. Molinaro + H.Heinl

• 18:00 - 18:30 Participants' projects (set up of groups)

• 18:30-20:00 Reception

• 20:15 Bus leaving CAB-Villafranca to hotel

Day 3. Thursday 17 December

• 08:30 Bus leaving hotel to CAB-Villafranca

• 09:30 - 11:15 Participants' projects (groups)

• 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break

• 11:45 - 13:00 Participants' projects (groups)

• 13:00 - 13:30 Project presentations

• 13:30 - 15:00 LUNCH

• 15:00 - 15:45 Project presentations (cont.)

• 15:45 - 16:15 Feedback

• 16:15 - 16:30 Wrap-up

• 16:45 Bus leaving CAB-Villafranca to hotel.