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The New Version of the Binary Star Database (BDB)

Open Astronomy, 2012
The Binary star database contains data on about 100 000 stellar systems of multiplicity 2 to 22, taken from a large variety of published catalogues for all types of binary stars: visual, orbital, astrometric, interferometric, spectroscopic, photometric ...
Kaygorodov P., Debray B., Kolesnikov N., Kovaleva D., Malkov O.   +4 more
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Astronomical Virtual Observatories Through International Collaboration

Data Science Journal, 2010
Astronomical Virtual Observatories (VOs) are emerging research environment for astronomy, and 16 countries and a region have funded to develop their VOs based on international standard protocols for interoperability.
Masatoshi Ohishi
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Data standards for the international virtual observatory

Data Science Journal, 2006
A primary goal of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance, which brings together Virtual Observatory Projects from 16 national and international development projects, is to develop, evaluate, test, and agree upon standards for astronomical data ...
R J Hanisch
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Digital Data Preservation for Scholarly Publications in Astronomy

International Journal of Digital Curation, 2008
Astronomy is similar to other scientific disciplines in that scholarly publication relies on the presentation and interpretation of data. But although astronomy now has archives for its primary research telescopes and associated surveys, the highly ...
Sayeed Choudhury, Tim DiLauro, Alex Szalay, Ethan Vishniac, Robert Hanisch, Julie Steffen, Robert Milkey, Teresa Ehling, Ray Plante   +8 more
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The LAEX and NASA portals for CoRoT public data [PDF]

, 2009
* Aims. We describe here the main functionalities of the LAEX (Laboratorio de Astrofisica Estelar y Exoplanetas/Laboratory for Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanets) and NASA portals for CoRoT Public Data.
A. C. Laity, A. N. Payne, A. Velasco, A. Zhang, B. Ali, B. Chan, C. Lau, D. L. McElroy, D. R. Ciardi, E. Solano, Fischer, G. B. Berriman, G. Bryden, Holman, Howell, J. Good, J. R. Stauffer, Jeff, K. von Braun, Kane, L. M. Sarro, M. Abajian, M. García, M. López, M. Schmitz, Mason, O'Donovan, P. L. Wyatt, P. Plavchan, Pepper, Pepper, R. Gutiérrez, Ramirez, S. R. Kane, S. Ramirez, Solano, Tonry, von Braun, von Braun, von Braun   +39 more
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Observations and Publications in the VO: Is the VO Only for Big Science? [PDF]

, 2007
The Virtual Observatory (VO) got started by Big Science projects. We can ask: is the VO an exclusive tool to handle big catalogs from large surveys? We think the VO should contain information from journals, other publications, and non-survey, ``Little ...
Holl, András
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Planetary Science Virtual Observatory architecture

, 2014
In the framework of the Europlanet-RI program, a prototype of Virtual Observatory dedicated to Planetary Science was defined. Most of the activity was dedicated to the elaboration of standards to retrieve and visualize data in this field, and to provide ...
Andre, N., Berthier, J., Bourrel, N., Capria, M. T., Cecconi, B., Chanteur, G., Chauvin, C., Erard, S., Gangloff, M., Genot, V., Henry, F., Jacquey, C., Schmitt, B., Sidaner, P. Le   +13 more
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VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY AND COLITEC SOFTWARE: MODULES, FEATURES, METHODS

Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2016
In this article we described complex processing system created by the CoLiTec project. This system includes features, user-friendly tools for processing control, results reviewing, integration with online catalogs and a lot of different computational ...
A. V. Pohorelov, S. V. Khlamov, V. E. Savanevych, A. V. Briukhovetskyi, V. P. Vlasenko   +4 more
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Exploration of Parameter Spaces in a Virtual Observatory [PDF]

, 2001
Like every other field of intellectual endeavor, astronomy is being revolutionised by the advances in information technology. There is an ongoing exponential growth in the volume, quality, and complexity of astronomical data sets, mainly through large ...
Brunner, R., Curkendall, D., Djorgovski, S. G., Granat, R., Jacob, J., Mahabal, A., Stolorz, P., Williams, R.   +7 more
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A Virtual Observatory Vision based on Publishing and Virtual Data [PDF]

, 2004
We would like to propose a vision of the Virtual Observatory where the "killer-app" is seen to be generalizing and extending the idea of "publication" from the narrow meaning of peer-reviewed journals.
Hanisch, Robert, Moore, Reagan, Williams, Roy   +2 more
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