Two-day informal meeting where VO developers can understand the issues and needs of GW people and where GW people can learn about the VO and get technical support for on-going or future development of VO tools.

(Top level DADI page: WP4: Data Access, Discovery and Interoperability (DADI))

31 May-1 June 2016

Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Université, Strasbourg, France

• VOevent/alert and GW
• Tools to help defining follow-up strategy:
  • Skymap visualization and tiling
  • Galaxy catalogs and usage for prioritization
• Tutorial on the scientifc usage of the VO

Please install Aladin and TOPCAT on your computer Install Instructions

Multi-instrument, multi-wavelength study of high energy sources with the virtual Observatory

The meeting will begin at 9:00 on 31 May 2016 and likely finish in the afternoon on 1 June 2016. The initial programme was purely indicative and evolved as the meeting progressed. The programme shown below is the final one.

May 31st Salle de Cours

9:00 Welcome

• Introduction – A few words about ASTERICS ad DADI (Data Access Discovery and Interoperability) (Francoise)pdf
• Introduction – Scope of the meeting (Eric)
• Quick recap of the science context : GW observations so far (Eric) pdf

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

• VO in a nutshell from http://ivoa.net
• Discussion on VOevent std and its application to GW observations - Current VOEvent standard - Current VOEvent Transport Protocol
• VO tools for astronomers and handling GW skymaps
• Working with probability sky maps: tools for astronomers and suggestions (Giuseppe) pdf
• Useful information on HiPS (Hierarchical Progressive Survey) and MOC (HEALPix Multi-Order Coverage map): MOC IVOA Standard Hierarchical Progressive Surveys : Fernique et al, 2015 A&A 578 A114
• Obscore standard (main information about observations) current version V1.0 Proposed V1.1

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

• Tutorial Multi-instrument, multi-wavelength study of high energy sources with the virtual Observatory

Other tutorials can be found here, in particular one about advanced functionalities in TOPCAT here

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

• Multimessenger astrophysics and open science
• Prospects for joint GW and high-energy EM observations of NS-NS mergers (Barbara) pdf
• LIGO Open Science Center (Roy - pdf) and Virgo plans (Eric)
• Follow-up strategies

17:30 Session closes

19:30 Workshop dinner

Jun 1st Salle de réunion coupôle

9:00 Welcome

• Galaxy catalogs for GW follow-up
• Gergely Dalya: “The current state of GLADE” pdf
• Gabor Galgocy: “Planned future development of GLADE” pdf

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

• Follow-up strategies
• Tiling strategies of wide FOV optical telescopes (Shaon) pdf
• MassBus: virtual observatory for gravitational-wave follow-up (Roy) (pdf)
• Multimessenger astrophysics and open science

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

• VO tools for astronomers
• The BlackGEM array – needs of VO tools (Steven) pdf
• Meeting summary. What's next?
• Small group meetings/Hackathon

16:00 Meeting ends