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1. Automatic Detection-Extraction-Classification for a Large Number of Stellar Spectra from Slitless Wide Field Spectroscopy. A Project for AVO

   The distribution of spectral types in extended stellar systems in galaxies can be a powerful mine of information regarding:...

   E. Kontizas, I. Bellas-Velidis, ... R. Smareglia in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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2. UCDs: Metadata for the VO

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   Sébastien Derriere, Thomas Boch, ... Patricio F. Ortiz in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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3. The Astronomical Data Warehouse

   The idea of the astronomical data warehouse has arisen as the natural extension of current trends in astronomical data archives, and from an analysis...

   Clive G. Page in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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4. Building the Infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory: An Information Technology Research Initiative of the National Science Foundation

   The U.S. National Science Foundation is sponsoring the development of the infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory via its Information...

   Robert J. Hanisch in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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5. Information Hub of the Russian Virtual Observatory

   The ultimate goal of the Russian Virtual Observatory (RVO) initiative is to provide every astronomer with on-line access to the rich volumes of data...

   Oleg Malkov, Olga Dluzhnevskaya, ... Dana Kovaleva in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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6. Building Interoperable NASA Archives

   Over the past decades NASA has developed an extensive set of archives for space astronomy data. These archives are organized along mission,...

   Thomas McGlynn, Alberto Accomazzi, ... Brian Thomas in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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7. Using XML-Schema to Model Data from Present and Future Astronomical Databases

   XML (eXtensible Markup Language) has now become an almost inescapable tool for the exchange of formatted data over the World Wide Web and is now...

   Bernard Debray in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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8. Wide-Field X-Ray Monitoring as a Data Source for the Virtual Observatory

   We refer on novel X-ray telescopes with high sensitivity as well as large field of view of order of 1 000 square degrees or even more. The results...

   René Hudec, Adolf Inneman, Ladislav Pina in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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9. Laplacean Ideology for Preliminary Orbit Determination and Moving Celestial Body Identification in Virtual Epoch

   Any CCD frames with stars or galaxies or clusters and other images must be studied for a searching of moving celestial objects, namely asteroids,...

   O. P. Bykov in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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10. HyperLeda: Virtual Instruments for Extragalactic Astronomy

    HyperLeda offers a series of tools of interest for Galactic and extra-galactic astronomy. The most prominent service is the LEDA catalogue which...

    Philippe Prugniel, Georges Paturel, ... Chantal Petit in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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11. A Practical Approach to Catalogued-Data Visualisation

    Catalogued data is one of the ways information will be collected from VO. The selected material will contain many physical quantities (columns) and...

    Patricio F. Ortiz, Joachim Köppen in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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12. Development of a Multi-Mission Data Server at LAEFF

    Astronomical archives have been built independently of each other showing a variety of access levels and policies. This has caused that their remote...

    Enrique Solano, Raúl Gutiérrez, ... Jesús García in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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13. e-Science and the Grid

    Many areas of science involve access to distributed computing and data resources, specialized and expensive instruments for world-wide collaborations...

    Marcel Kunze in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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14. The Hamburg/RASS Catalogue of Optical Identifications of ROSAT Bright Source X-Ray Sources

    We used digitized Schmidt direct and prism plates taken for the northern hemisphere Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS) to obtain optical identifications for...

    F.-J. Zickgraf, D. Engels, ... W. Voges in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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15. A Galactic Model as a Useful Tool for Virtual Observatories

    Many observational data will be available through Virtual Observatories, but at some wavelengths and in some directions, no data yet exist....

    Annie C. Robin, Céline Reylé, ... Bernard Debray in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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16. Multiwavelength Studies of Microquasar GRS 1915 + 105

    The microquasar GRS 1915 + 105 has shown spectacular variability and has been extensively studied in multiwavelengths during last few years. The...

    J. S. Yadav in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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17. Visualisation Tools for Very Large Amounts of Data

    Can we perceive a billion stars? How would you go about classifying them? How quantitatively good would your analysis be? How reliable would your...

    S. G. Ansari in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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18. Federation and Fusion of Astronomical Information: Standards and Tools for the Virtual Observatories

    We present a review of the current organization of astronomical archives and data centers in terms of data federation. We point the challenges faced,...

    Daniel Egret, Françoise Genova in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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19. Meeting the User Science Challenge for a Virtual Universe

    The AstroGrid project, a core UK eScience programme, is rapidly implementing the UK’s contribution to the global drive towards the Virtual...

    Nicholas Walton in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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20. The Astronomy Digital Library and the VO

    The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is the central part of the Digital Library in Astronomy. It provides the users with a search system for the...

    Guenther Eichhorn, Alberto Accomazzi, ... Stephen S. Murray in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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