Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XV

ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE SERIES Volume 351 ASTRONOMICAL DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS XV

Proceedings of a meeting held in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain 2-5 October 2005

Edited by Carlos Gabriel European Space Astronomy Centre - ESAC European Space Agency (ESA) - Madrid, Spain Christophe Arviset European Space Astronomy Centre - ESAC European Space Agency (ESA) - Madrid, Spain Daniel Ponz European Space Astronomy Centre - ESAC European Space Agency (ESA) - Madrid, Spain and Enrique Solano Laboratorio de Astrofisica Espacialy Fisica Fundamental (LAEFF) Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA) - Madrid, Spain

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Preface

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Participants

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Part 1. Birds of a Feather Sessions C o m m o n A s t r o n o m i c a l S o f t w a r e E n v i r o n m e n t for D a t a A n a l y s i s

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P. Grosb0l and D. Tody Which Unix Is Right For You? P.N. Daly

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Part 2. Demonstration Sessions ESA Science Archives E. Parrilla, C. Arviset, I. Barbarisi, J. Dowson, N. Fajersztejn, M. Freschi, M. Guainazzi, J. Hernandez, D. Marin, B. Olabarri, I. Ortiz, P. Osuna, J. Salgado, A. Stebe ESA VO Activities and Services I. Barbarisi, C. Arviset, I. Ortiz, P. Osuna, J. Salgado, A. Stebe Building an Astronomical Database with Saada H. Ngoc Nguyen, L. Michel, C. Motch The Spanish Virtual Observatory (SVO) R. Gutierrez, C. Rodrigo, E. Solano (on behalf of the SVO team) v

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Part 3. Focused Demonstrations How to Publish Local Data Into the VO with Saada

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L. Michel, H. Ngoc Nguyen, C. Motch VisIVO: Interoperable Visualization and Data Analysis for the VO C. Gheller, M. Comparato and U. Becciani

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There (70°S @10,177 m ) and Back Again, A n Umbraphile's Tale . . . .

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G. Schneider Part 5. Space-Based Science X-ray Astronomy- and the Analysis of X-ray Data J.C. McDowell ChlPS - CIAO's New Visualization Plotting Package G. Germain, R. Milaszewski, W. McLaughlin, J. Miller, J.D. Evans, I. Evans, D. Burke Specsim: The MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer Simulator

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N.P.F. Lorente, A.C.H. Glasse, S. Wright Building the Chandra Source Catalog J. Evans, S. Doe, J. Evans, G. Fabbiano, K. Glotfelty, J. Grier, R. Hain, M. Karovska, M. McCollough, D. Plummer, F. Primini, A. Rots, J. Slavin and M. Wise An Image Display Package for Herschel DP based on Jsky W.D. Meester, R. Huygen Effectiveness of the Gregory-Loredo Algorithm for the Detection of Temporal Variability in Chandra Data

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A.H. Rots Sherpa: Goals and Design for Chandra and Beyond S. Doe, D. Nguyen, C. Stawarz, A. Siemiginowska, D. Burke, I. Evans, J. Evans, J. McDowell, B. Refsdal, J. Houck and M. Nowak

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The Chandra Source Catalog Automatic Data Processing System . . . .

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J.D. Grier Jr., D. Plummer and K. Glotfelty Producing the 2XMM Catalogue C.G. Page TableViewer for Herschel Data Processing L. Zhang and B. Schulz

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Where Do the Data Go? An Analysis of Chandra Data Dissemination .

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S. Winkelman, A. Rots, A. Duffy, S. Blecksmith and D. Jerius

The UK Swift Science Data Centre

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L. Tyler, K. Page, M. Goad and J. Osborne

Part 6. Optical Surveys The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope T. S. Axelrod Automatic Astrometric and Photometric Calibration with S C A M P

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From Handicraft to Industry: Supporting Surveys at ESO Telescopes

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A. M. Chavan, F. Comeron, M. Peron, T. Canavan, D. Dorigo and P. Nunes

The NASA Navigator Program Ground Based Archives at the Michelson Science Center: Supporting the Search for Habitable Planets . . . 120 G.B. Berriman, D.R. Ciardi, J.C. Good, A.C. Laity and A. Zhang 4

Part 7. Tools & Techniques Astrostatistics: Goodness-of-Fit and All That!

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G.J. Babu, E.D. Feigelson

GLAST Offline Software's Use of Gaudi and ROOT

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H. Kelly

Uncovering Small Scale Structures in Near-Infrared Adaptive Optics Images

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M. Stickel and U. Klaas

BUCS: An Engine For Generating Realistic Imaging Data for Deep Galaxy Fields

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R.J. Bouwens, G.D. Illingworth and D.K. Magee

A Turing-Influenced Sub-System for Instrument Control

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Wavelet-Based Image Deconvolution for Wide Field CCD Imagery . . .

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M.T. Merino, O. Fors, X. Otazu, R. Cardinal, J. Nunez and A.R. Hildebrand

CARMA Correlator: Reconfiguration and Signal Processing

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K.P. Rauch, D.W. Hawkins and R. Hobbs

Bayesian Classifiers for Variable Stars M. Lopez, C. Bielza and L.M. Sarro

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Adapting NB0DY4 with a GRAPE-6a Supercomputer for Web Access, Using NBodyLab V. Johnson and S. Aarseth Position Refinement of Spitzer-Space-Telescope Images R. Laher, H. McCallon, F. Masci and J. Fowler Data Mining the Multiwavelength Data Y. Zhang and Y. Zhao Survey on the State of the Art in Lossless Compression of Astronomical Images C. Griinler, H. Weghorn and C.C. Chibelushi New Statistical Insights of Globular Cluster Systems H. Lee OPSO - The OpenGL based Field Acquisition and Telescope Guiding System P. Skoda, J. Fuchs and J. Honsa The DataCapturer Component for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array H. Hafok, M. Caillat and J. McMullin Stochastic Approximation of Visibility Functions for VLBI Imaging . . S. Likhachev, V. Ladygin«and I. Guirin OCA - A Flexible Rule Engine for Data Organisation, Classification & Association S. Zampieri, O. Chuzel, N. Ferguson, R. Hanuschik, P. Nunes and M. Peron APECS - The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment Control System D. Muders, H. Hafok, F. Wyrowski, E. Polehampton, A. Belloche, C. Konig and R. Schaaf W C S T o o l s 4.0: Building A s t r o m e t r y a n d Catalogs into Pipelines

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Java Message Service (JMS) use in the Telescope Automation and Remote Observing System (TAROS) '. A. Czezowski, A. Green, G. Hovey, M. Jarnyk, J. Nielsen, B. Roberts, K. Sebo, D. Smith, A. Vaccarella, G. Wilson and P. Young Cosmological Simulations in a Relational Database: Modelling and Storing Merger Trees G. Lemson and V. Springel FLY: a Code for LSS Cosmological Simulations for a PC Linux Cluster M. Comparato, U. Becciani, V. Antonuccio-Delogu and A. Costa A Java Library for Describing Binary Data Structures R. Huygen, B. Vandenbussche and E. Wieprecht The Besangon Model of our Galaxy: a simulation tool towards the Virtual Observatory B. Debray, A.C. Robin, C. Reyle and M. Schultheis

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TFIT: A Photometry Package for Mixed-Resolution Datasets V.G. Laidler, N. Grogin, K. Clubb, H. Ferguson, C. Papovich, M. Dickinson, R. Idzi, E. MacDonald, M. Ouchi and B. Mobasher

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Using a Novel Hybrid Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Model of Brightness Profiles in Elliptical and Spiral Galaxy Images 232 J.C. Gomez and O. Fuentes Project EFIGI: Automatic Classification of Galaxies 236 A. Baillard, E. Bertin, Y. Mellier, H.J. McCracken, T. Geraud, R. Pello, J.-F. LeBorgne and P. Fouque Search for New Open Clusters in Huge Catalogues 240 I. Zolotukhin, S.-Koposov and E. Glushkova Search of D i s t a n t R a d i o G a l a x i e s as a S u b j e c t M e d i a t o r E x a m p l e . . . . 2 4 4

O. Zhelenkova, V. V. Vitkovskij, D. Briukhov and L.A. Kalinichenko Enhancing Supernova Remnant Imaging Signatures using PSF-matching Techniques 248 S. 'O Tuairisg and A. Shearer

Part 8. Pipeline & Work-Flows First Results F r o m the V I S T A D a t a F l o w S y s t e m a n d W F C A M

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J.R. Lewis, M.J. Irwin, E.A. Gonzalez-Solares, P.S. Bunclark, S.T. Hodgkin, D.W. Evans and R.G. McMahon ACS as the Framework for Offline Data Reduction in ALMA S. Harrington, D. DeBonis, J. McMullin, W. Young, G. Chiozzi and B. Jeram

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Definition of Astronomical Data Analysis Workflows on a Service-oriented Grid Architecture using Business Process Execution Language . . 263 V. Manna, E. Cascone, G. Capasso and G. Tortone Painless Access to Interferometry Images Comes Closer A.M.S. Richards, P.J. Diamond, S.T. Garrington, A.J. Holloway, T.W.B. Muxlow, N. Winstanley, P.A. Harrison, N.A. Walton, E. Gonzalez-Solares, G.T. Rixon, T. Venturi and C. Reynolds

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Data Flow System for the VLT Interferometer P. Ballester, T. Licha, I. Percheron and C. Sabet

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Analysis of Space Coronagraphic Images : Application to Ten Years of SOHO/LASCO Data M. Burtin, A. Llebaria and P. Lamy

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Data Reduction Pipeline for EMIR, the Near-IR Multi-Object Spectrograph for GTC S. Pascual, J. Gallego, N. Cardiel, J. Zamorano, F.J. Gorgas, C.E. Garcia-Dabo and A. Gil de Paz

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Introducing Slits in Slitless Spectroscopy: Reducing F0RS2-MXU data with aXe M.W. Kiimmel, H. Kuntschner, S.S. Larsen and J.R. Walsh Planck LFI Data Processing During Instrument Calibration Tests . . . N. Morisset, R. Rohlfs, M. Tiirler, M. Maris, S. Fogliani, X. Dupac, A. Zacchei,A. Mennella and D. Maino LOFAR Self-Calibration using a Local Sky Model R.J. Nijboer, J.E. Noordam and S.B. Yatawatta New data reduction challenges on the VLT with SINFONI and VISIR . Y. Jung, L.K. Lundin, A. Modigliani, D. Dobrzycka and W. Hummel Accuracy and Stability of Fringe Measurements in SIM

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X. Pan and M. Shao A C u s t o m D a t a S e r v e r for G L A S T L A T E v e n t a n d P h o t o n D a t a . . . .

T.E. Stephens Detection of transit events during CoRoT operations C. Quentin, R. Cautain and P. Barge MeqParm: Parameter Handling in the MeqTree System M. Mevius, O.M. Smirnov and J.E. Noordam ALMA Pipeline Heuristics . .* J. Lightfoot, F. Wyrowski, D. Muders, F. Boone, L. Davis, D. Shepherd and C. Wilson AIPS++ Framework Migration J.P. McMullin, D.R. Shiebel, W. Young and D. DeBonis Work Around Distributed Image Processing and Workflow Management A. Schaaff, F. Bonnarel, J.-J. Claudon, M. Louys, C. Pestel, R. David, S. Genaud, M. Louys and C. Wolf The ALMA Pipeline Infrastructure L.E. Davis \ An Open Architecture and Framework for Astronomical Data Processing and Analysis D. Tody, P. Grosb0l, B. Garilli, W. Cotton, P. Linde, D. Ponz, R. Hook, K. Banse and K. Reinsch Abstracting Science-Calibration Relations for Multi-Instrument Telescopes D. Starr, C. Winge and C. Aspin

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Correcting for the Geometric Distortions on the COS FUV Detector . . 339 S. Beland and S.V. Penton PyMidas-A Python Interface to ESO-MIDAS 343 R.N. Hook, S. Maisala, T. Oittinen, M. Ullgren, K. Vasko, V. Savolainen, J. Lindroos, M. Anttila, O. Solin, P. M0ller, K. Banse and M. Peron The MUSE Data Reduction Software Pipeline 347 P.M. Weilbacher, M.M. Roth, A. Pecontal-Rousset, R. Bacon and the MUSE team -

OSIRIS Mask Designer for Multi-Object Spectroscopy 351 D. de Miguel Ferreras, J. Ignacio Gonzalez-Serrano, M. Sanchez-Portal, H. Castaneda, J. Cepa, M. Aguiar and R. Quirk Implementing Arbitrary Measurement Equations With The MeqTree Module 355 O.M. Smirnov and J.E. Noordam

Part 9. VO Standards & Services Theoretical Support to Observational data in VO Context 363 P. Osuna, J. Salgado, I. Barbarisi, M. Guainazzi and C. Arviset SkyBoT, a New VO Service to Identify Solar System objects 367 J. Berthier, F. Vachier, W. Thuillot, P. Fernique, F. Ochsenbein, F. Genova, V. Lainey and J.-E. Arlot Handling 3D data in the Virtual Observatory 371 I. Chilingarian, F. Bonnarel, M. Louys and J. McDowell Development of Japanese Virtual Observatory (JVO) : Experience on Interoperation with other Virtual Observatories and its Future Plan 375 M. Ohishi, Y. Shirasaki, M. Tanaka, S. Honda, N. Yasuda, Y. Masunaga, Y. Ishihara, J. Tsutsumi, H. Nakamoto and Y. Kobayashi AusVODownload: A Tool for Using the Virtual Observatory within Existing Astronomy Software 379 R. Wayth, B. Beeson, M. Lancaster and K. Manson A Software System with VSO 383 G. Lin and J. Su The Development of the Heterogenic Geographical Distributed System for the Celestial Object Monitoring 387 V. V. Vitkovskij, O. Zhelenkova, N. Kalinina, V. Chernenkov and V. Shergin VO Access to BASECOL Database \ 391 N. Moreau and M.L. Dubernet VO Paris Federation 394 G. Simon, M.L. Dubernet, P. Le Sidaner, J. Aboudarham, C. Barache, J. Berthier, F. Boone, J. Borsenberger, M. Caillat, I. Chilingarian, J. Crovisier, M. Dantel-Fort, B. Debatz, C. Dedieu, D. Egret, A.M. Gontier, J. Guibert, D. Guillaume,R. Haigron, P. Hennebelle, I. Jegouzo, V. Lainey, J. Le Bourlot, F. Le Petit, J.M. Martin, P. Micheneau, N. Moreau, D. Pelat, M. Perault, P. Prugniel, C. Renie, F. Roques, F. Royer, J. Schneider, F. Tajahmady, G. Theureau, W. Thuillot, F. Tran-Minh, F. Vachier, J. Vetois, F. Viallefond, A. Baillard, E. Bertin, J.M. Desert, R. Ferlet, G. Hebrard, F. Magnard, J-C. Malapert, J.B. Marquette, C. Marmo, Y. Mellier, H. McCracken, A. Sarkissian, P. Didelon and E. Lesquoy EN.V.O.L : ENvironment Virtual Observatory at LAM 398 C. Surace, R. Savalle, C. Moreau, J.-C. Meunier, O. Garrido, T. Fenouillet and M. Burtin

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Implementing a VOStore Interface for NGAS P. Harrison, J. Knudstrup, A. Wicenec and M. Dolensky

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Concept for the Hubble Legacy Archive 406 H. Jenkner, R.E. Doxsey, R.J. Hanisch, S.H. Lubow, W.W. Miller III and R.L. White Status of the VOTech Design Study about User Tools 410 M. Dolensky, F. Pierfederici, M. Allen, T. Boch, F. Bonnarel, S. Derriere and P. Fernique, K. Noddle and R. Smareglia Multi-Purpose Metadata Repository for a Real & Virtual Observatory . 414 M.C. Leoni, M. Dolensky, P. Padovani, P. Rosati, A. Wicenec and A. Micol Naming Data for Efficient, Secure Archival Retrieval 418 A. Cooke and R. Plante CARNIVORE: an Open Source VO Registry 421 M.J. Graham and R.D. Williams Feeding VO Data Products into the ESO Archive 425 R. Slijkhuis, N. Delmotte, M. Dolensky, J. Retzlaff, C. Rite, P. Rosati and A. Wicenec The Nangay Radio Telescope Archive 429 G. Theureau, J.-M. Martin, I. Cognard and J. Borsenberger Python VO Tools 433 F. Pierfederici ST-ECF Archive: a SIAP Service in the Path towards the VO 437 D. Sforna, A. Micol and R. Albrecht ESO Advanced Data Products for the Virtual Observatory 441 J. Retzlaff, N. Delmotte, C. Rite, P. Rosati, R. Slijkhuis and B. Vandame VisIVO: a Visualization Toolkit towards Grid Environment 445 A. Costa, U. Becciani, M. Comparato and C. Gheller UCDs and Ontologies : 449 S. Derriere, A. Preite-Martinez, A. Richard, A. Napoli and E. Nauer A VO-Compatible Spectral Container for HST and other Missions . . . 452 R. Thompson, K. Levay, M. Smith, D. Durand, I. Kamp and A. Micol Japanese Virtual Observatory (JVO): Implementation of VO Standard Protocols 456 Y. Shirasaki, M. Tanaka, S. Honda, S. Kawanomoto, N. Yasuda, Y. Masunaga, Y. Ishihara, J. Tsutsumi, H. Nakamoto and Y. Kobayashi Web Service Interface and Workflow Mechanism for JVO 460 M. Tanaka, Y. Shirasaki, S. Kawanomoto, S. Honda, M. Ohishi, Y. Mizumoto, N. Yasuda, Y. Ishihara, J. Tsutsumi, H. Nakamoto, Y. Kobayashi and M. Sakamoto Towards IVOA-Standard Access Control 463 G. Rixon, D. Morris and K. Benson

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Making and Caching Associations in the Virtual Observatory

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J.D. Taylor, E. Taylor, R.G. Mann, D. Prina Ricotti and R. Bose New Features in the Spectrum Services for the Virtual Observatory

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L. Dobos, T. Budavari, I. Csabai and A.S. Szalay The IAP FUSE Database: a Virtual Observatory Interactive Web Tool

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J.-M. Desert, G. Hebrard, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, R. Ferlet, A. Vidal-Madjar and I. Chilingarian

Part 10. Parallel &: Distributed Computing Using the Parallel Virtual Machine for Everyday Analysis

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M.S. Noble, J.C. Houck, J.E. Davis, A. Young and M. Nowak Agent-Based Scientific Workflow Composition

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A. Barker and B. Mann Big Science with a Small Budget: Non-Embarrassingly Parallel Applications in a Non-Dedicated Network of Workstations

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A. de Vicente and JV. Rodriguez Large-Scale Query and XMatch, Entering t h e Parallel Zone M.A. Nieto-Santisteban,

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A.R. Thakar, A.S. Szalay and J. Gray

ParselTongue: AIPS Talking Python

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M. Kettenis, H.J. van Langevelde, C. Reynolds and B. Cotton ALMA Binary Data Transport Mechanism using VOTable Headers . . .

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A. Wicenec, H. Meuss and J. Pisano Automated Code Compilation Via the Release Manager

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JV. Golpayegani Grid Data Source Engine: Grid Gateway to the Virtual Observatory . . G. Taffoni, C. Vuerii, A. Barisani, R. Smareglia, A. Volpato, S. Pastore, A. Baruffolo, F. Pasian, L. Benacchio, E. Ambrosi and A. Ghiselli

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GBTIDL: A New Package for Reduction and Analysis of GBT Spectral Line Data P. Marganian, R.W. Garwood, J.A. Braatz, N.M. Radziwill and R.J. Maddalena

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The Herschel Data Processing System . 516 S. Ott, J. Bakker, J. BrumRtt, JV. de Candussio, L. Dwedari, A.M. Heras, S. Leeks, A.P. Marston, J.-J. Mathieu, J. Pizarro, H. Siddiqui, B. AH, B. Latter, P. Morris, J. Rector, B. Schulz, J. Corrales Garcia, W. De Meester, R. Huygen, B. Vandenbussche, S. Guest, J. Kemp, D. Kester, R. Shipman, P. Zaal, A. Lorenzani, E. Sturm, M. Wetzstein and E. Wieprecht Optimizing SAS tasks for Grid Architectures A. Ibarra, D. Tapiador, F. Felix, C. Gabriel, C. Arviset, J. Hoar and S. Ansari

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The HERSCHEL/PACS Early Data Products E. Wieprecht, M. Wetzstein, R. Huygen, B. Vandenbussche and W. de Meester Monitoring and Remote Control of Scientific Instrumentation through the Grid C. Vuerii, G. Taffoni, A. Barisani, G. Capasso, E. Cascone, I. Coretti, M. Occhioni, P. Santin, R. Smareglia, F. Pasian and M. Pucillo Grid-enabled Distributed Data Mining With WebCom-G B. Voisin, J. Cunniffe, M. Browne and A. Shearer Accessing the EGSO Grid through a WSRF-Enabled API A. Csillaghy M. Soldati, P. Kunz, R.D. Bentley and I. Scholl IDP3, An IDL-based Interactive Astronomical Data Analysis Package . E. Stobie and A. Ferro FITS Image Analysis Software for Education: Makali'i T. Horaguchi, R. Furusho, H. Agata and the paoSts WG

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Part 11. Data Quality & Fidelity A Framework for Telescope Data Quality Management 551 N.M. Radziwill and R.F. DuPlain Validation and Verification of Chandra Data: Combining Pipelines, a Graphical Application and the Human Factor 555 J. DePonte Evans, T.J. Calderwood, I.N. Evans, K.J. Glotfelty, D.M. Hall, J.B. Miller and D.A. Plummer The GTC Telescope Control and Data Reduction Systems 559 P. Gomez-Alvarez, C.E. Garcia-Dabo, J. Osinde and R. Macias Testing of C h a n d r a Interactive Analysis of O b s e r v a t i o n s ( C I A O )

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M. Karovska, J.D. Evans and the CIAO Testing Team A Web-based Hardware Configuration Tracking System for Herschel-PACS J. Vanautgaerden, R. Huygen and B. Vandenbussche User Interface for the ESO Advanced Data Products Image Reduction Pipeline C. Rite, JV. Delmotte, J. Retzlaff, P. Rosati, R. Slijkhuis and B. Vandame New Features of SAOImage DS9 W.A. Joye Advanced Science Analysis Package and the prototype DALIA F. Boone, D. Muders, P. Schilke, C. Comito, S. Leurini, B. Parise, F. van der Tak and K.M. Menten An ETC and Image Simulation Suite for Any Ground Based Camera & Telescope B. Sheehan, C. Lane and R. Butler

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Self-Consistent Data Quality Recovery - A Study of the DENIS Photometric Calibration Archive J. Cunniffe, A. Golden and G. Simon

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The D4A Digitiser

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J.-P. De Cuyper and L. Winter Implementation of -TAB coordinates in WCSLIB M.R. Calabretta Interactive User Interface for Spacecraft Data Processing C.S. Anderson, D.L. Morgan, P.J. Mendygral and J.S. Nichols

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Part 12. VO Science Astronomy in the Framework of the Virtual Observatory 601 E. Solano Massive Science with VO and Grids 610 R. Nichol, G. Smith, C. Miller, P. Freeman, C. Genovese, L. Wasserman, B. Bryan, A. Gray, J. Schneider and A. Moore Exploring the High Redshift Universe using VO Tools E.A. Gonzalez-Solares and JV. Walton

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Part 13. Information Systems The Alma Science Data Model 627 F. Viallefond VOEvent: Information Infrastructure for Real-Time Astronomy 637 R.D. Williams and R. Seaman Tools and Services for Education and Outreach: Accessing Real Astronomical Data 641 C.A. Christian Transforming the Way VLBI is Done 649 H.J. van Langevelde, A. Szomoru, H. Verkouter, M. Kettenis, B. Kramer, F. Olnon, J. Anderson, C% Reynolds and M. Garrett Intelligent Information Retrieval M.J. Kurtz, G. Eichhorn, A. Accomazzi, C. Grant, E. Henneken and S.S. Murray

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The SIMBAD Database: Lessons Learned from 30 years of Experience . M. Wenger, F. Ochsenbein, F. Bonnarel, S. Lesteven and A. Oberto

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STILTS - A Package for Command-Line Processing of Tabular Data . . M.B. Taylor

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The CARMA Project S.L. Scott and M.W. Pound Documenting CIAO: the Command-line and Web-based Help System . . D.J. Burke, A. Fruscione, E. Galle, R.M. Milaszewski and C. Stawarz T-LECS: The Control Software System for MOIRCS .' T. YoshiJcawa, K. Omata, M. Konishi, T. Ichikawa, R. Suzuki, C. Tokoku, Y. Katsuno and T. Nishimura NASA/IPAC Infrared Archive's General Image Cutouts Service A. AJexov and J.C. Good VLBI Data Editing LA. Guirin, S.F. Likhachev and A.A. Chuprikov ESO Science Archive Interfaces JV. Deimotte, M. Dolensky, P. Padovani, J. Retzlaff, C. Rite, P. Rosati, R. Slijkhuis, A. Wicenec, P. Fernique and A. Micol The GAVO Cross-Matcher Application H.M. Adorf, G. Lemson and W. Voges ISOC Science Data Archive O.R. Williams, C. Arviset, J. Dowson, L. Hansson, J. Hernandez, D. Mann, E. Parrilla and J. Salgado SIMBAD 4: a new Release wijh new Possibilities A. Oberto, M. Wenger, J.P. Lejal, S. Jaehn, B. Baranne, M. Hatt, O. Dellicour and J. Deprez The GOODS/FORS2 Spectroscopy Archive at ESO J. Haase, H. Kuntschner, P. Rosati and E. Vanzella Data Versioning in the Chandra Data Archive P. Zografou, P. Harbo, A. Patz, M. Tibbetts and D. Van Stone Bibliographic Classification using the ADS Databases A. Accomazzi, M.J. Kurtz, G' Eichhorn, E. Henneken, C.S. Grant, M. Demleitner and S.S. Murray The Astronomer's Integrated Desktop: A Unified Suite of Applications for Scheduling-Block Based Observing with the GBT K. O'Neil, A.L. Shelton, N.M. Radziwill and R.M. Prestage Gemini PI Electronic Transfer and Distribution (PIETD) S. Gaudet, D. Bohlender, A. Damian, S. Goliath, JV. Hiil, G. MeJnychuJc and C. Aspin Design of the Telemetry Control System for the Large Binocular Telescope M.D. De La Pena and T. Axelrod Image Quality Assessment Using Web Services J.-C. Malapert and F. Magnard

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Q3C, Quad Tree Cube - T h e New Sky-indexing Concept for Huge Astronomical Catalogues and its Realization for Main Astronomical Queries (Cone Search and Xmatch) in Open Source Database PostgreSQL . . . . 735

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The GALEX Science Data Archive, and the Discovery Potential from Multi-wavelength Surveys 747 A. Conti, L. Bianchi, L. Rodriguez and B. Shiao

Autonomous Observing and Control Systems for PAIRITEL, a 1.3m Infrared Imaging Telescope

751

J.S. Bloom, D.L. Starr, C.H. Blake, M.F. Skrutskie and E.E. Falco

The Digitation of the Astronomical Plates of Catania Astrophysical Observatory

755

P. Massimino, S. Catalano, M. Cigna, V. Greco, A. Mangano, E. Marilli and C. Blanco

Development of the Control System for the 40m OAN Radiotelescope with the Alma Common Software 758 P. de Vicente, R. Bolano and L. Barbas

Part 14. VO in transition The Virtual Observatory in Transition

765

R.J. Hanisch

The AVO to EURO-VO Transition P. Padovani on behalf of the EURO-VO

771 Project

Science in VOTECH

775

N.A. WaJton, E. Gonzalez-Solares, M.G. Allen, M. Guainazzi, G. Longo, A.M.S. Richards and A. Wicenec

Author Index

779

Subject Index

786