Student Exercises

Several sessions of student exercises are scheduled throughout the Summer School and small exercises will also be part of many of the classes. During the exercise sessions the faculty member leading the discussion will typically work through an example VO client, service or combination of elements. Later in the session you do a similar exercise, or try to customize the lesson to your particular needs and objectives. In addition to building clients or services for your own particular datasets you can look at some of the examples below especially in the last exercise where you are combining VO services.

• Find observations of spectral line observations (images) in nearby galaxies
• Rediscover HR diagram
• Replicate brown dwarf candidate search using OpenSkyQuery and perform analysis using Mirage
• Looking for colour segregation in Abell Clusters
• Find HST observations of ULIRGs and for those that have HST data, find which ones have Chandra data
• Find stars in OGLE or MACHO that have been imaged by HST
• Rediscover the expansion of the universe
• Select X-ray point sources in the LMC and find associated optical information particularly light curves
• Make scatter plot or 3D plot from catalog
• Find all K giants brighter than some magnitude (Shaya)
• Make finding charts for a list of N objects of interest
• Determine the direction of the solar motion
• Compute distance to the Hyades by analysis of proper motions
• Make a scrapbook from a set of positions