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The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a wide-field telescope project focused on detecting optical counterparts to gravitational-wave sources. Each GOTO robotic mount holds eight 40 cm telescopes, giving an overall…

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is an array of wide-field optical telescopes, designed to exploit new discoveries from the next generation of gravitational wave detectors (LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA), study rapidly evolving…

SPLAT-VO is a powerful graphical tool for displaying, comparing, modifying and analyzing astronomical spectra, as well as searching and retrieving spectra from services around the world using Virtual Observatory (VO) protocols and services.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-08 Petr Skoda , Peter W. Draper , Margarida Castro Neves , David Andresic , Tim Jenness

Guided by the recently published science case for the future of European VLBI, EVN2015, a roadmap for the future of the EVN is sketched out in this paper. The various desired technical improvements are being discussed with an emphasis on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-27 Huib Jan van Langvelde

The Virtual Observatory (VO) is a global ecosystem of interoperating services that connect worldwide data archives. The VO is implemented in all major astronomy archives through common interfaces developed by the 22 members of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 G. Bruce Berriman

The U.S. Virtual Astronomical Observatory was a software infrastructure and development project designed both to begin the establishment of an operational Virtual Observatory (VO) and to provide the U.S. coordination with the international…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-10 R. J. Hanisch , G. B. Berriman , T. J. W. Lazio , S. Emery Bunn , J. Evans , T. A. McGlynn , R. Plante

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a wide-field telescope project aimed at detecting optical counterparts to gravitational wave sources. The prototype instrument was inaugurated in July 2017 on La Palma in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 Martin Dyer , Vik Dhillon , Stuart Littlefair , Danny Steeghs , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Paul Chote , Duncan Galloway , Evert Rol

We summarise the achievements of the AstroGrid-PL project, which aims to provide an infrastructure grid computing, distributed storage and Virtual Observatory services to the Polish astronomical community. It was developed from 2011-2015 as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-20 Greg Stachowski , Tomasz Kundera , Pawel Ciecielag , AstroGridPL Team

In the Virtual Observatory (VO), the Registry provides the mechanism with which users and applications discover and select resources -- typically, data and services -- that are relevant for a particular scientific problem. Even though the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-14 Markus Demleitner , Gretchen Greene , Pierre Le Sidaner , Raymond L. Plante

We present first scientific results, technical details and recent developments in the Estonian Grid. Ideas and concepts behind Grid technology are described. We mention some most crucial parts of a Grid system, as well as some unique…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andi Hektor , Lauri Anton , Mario Kadastik , Konstantin Skaburskas , Hardi Teder

One of the fundamental concepts in Grid computing is the creation of Virtual Organizations (VO's): a set of resource consumers and providers that join forces to solve a common problem. Typical examples of Virtual Organizations include…

A Virtual Observatory (VO) will enable transparent and efficient access, search, retrieval, and visualization of data across multiple data repositories, which are generally heterogeneous and distributed. Aspects of data mining that apply to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kirk D. Borne

The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) develops the technical standards needed for seamless discovery of and access to astronomy data worldwide, according to the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-14 G. Bruce Berriman , The IVOA Executive Committee , The IVOA Technical Coordination Group , The IVOA Community

The Pulsar Virtual Observatory will provide a means for scientists in all fields to access and analyze the large data sets stored in pulsar surveys without specific knowledge about the data or the processing mechanisms. This is achieved by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Keith , B. Harbulot , A. Lyne , J. Brooke

The contemporary astronomy is flooded with an exponentially growing petabyte-scaled data volumes produced by powerful ground and space-based instrumentation as well as a product of extensive computer simulations and computations of complex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Petr Škoda

The Virtual Observatory is now mature enough to produce cutting-edge science results. The exploitation of astronomical data beyond classical identification limits with interoperable tools for statistical identification of sources has become…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Padovani

This paper presents a longitudinal open dataset of Spanish public procurement extracted from the Official State Gazette (BOE) covering the period 2014-2024. The dataset integrates structured information on contracts, contracting…

General Economics · Economics 2026-02-20 Manuel Munoz Pla

The contemporary astronomical instruments have been producing the unprecedented amount of data. The largest part of this "data avalanche" is being produced by deep all-sky surveys yielding terabytes of raw data per night. Such a great data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-20 Petr Škoda

Since we started measuring the community of GitHub users in Spain, it has kept increasing in numbers in such a way that it has grown almost 50%, to the current 12000, in less than one year. However, the reasons for this are not clear. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-02-05 JJ Merelo