Toward an International Virtual Observatory: Proceedings of by P. J. E. Peebles (auth.), Peter J. Quinn, Krzysztof M.

By P. J. E. Peebles (auth.), Peter J. Quinn, Krzysztof M. Górski (eds.)

The booklet is the 1st thorough evaluate of the 1st very important steps to improve a global digital observatory in order that, sooner or later, it can be more uncomplicated to "dial-up" part of the sky than wait many months to entry a telescope. The articles during this publication current info at the prestige of the 1st efforts to strengthen a standardized framework for the digital observatory, together with steps in the direction of of entirety and deployment of technical infrastructure, uptake through information services around the world, and usage via the clinical community.

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Figure 2 shows the outcome, where yet again no progenitor was detected. . The galaxy M74 has been imaged by HST, Gemini, CFHT and WHT, however the supernova position does not fall on any of these images. All the publicly available archives have been searched for deeper, higher resolution images of Early Virtual Science: Some Lessons for the AVO 51 M74 but there are no superior images to those shown in Fig. 2 that include the pre-explosion site of SN 2002ap. The important lesson for the present is that truly ‘virtual’ data, ie data whose existence can be deduced but which are not even physically in an archive, can prove of considerable science value.

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The programme was conceived as an orchestration of limiting observations of the HDF-N and the CDF-S regions (∼ 300arcmin2 in total) with the most powerful telescopes over the widest wavelength range: 30 times larger in solid angle than the combined HDF-N and HDF-S. It is based on large programmes with SIRTF, HST, Chandra, Newton, VLT etc. The specific GOODS proposals all produce datasets and derived products for the public domain. 2 Primary Science Goals The main scientific aims of the programme can be summarised as follows: • Elucidating the mass assembly history of galaxies and tracking the formation of the Hubble sequence • Performing a census of energetic output from star formation and supermassive black holes • Making measurements or placing limits on the discrete source component of the extragalactic background light • The discovery of high-z supernovæ to explore the cosmic expansion ESO Symposia: Toward an International Virtual Observatory, pp.

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