SUMMER SCHOOL PROJECTS

The StudentExercises include ideas and guides how to do science with existing VO applications and web sites. The focus of these summer school projects is to learn how to program against the VO infrastructure and use lower level VO services to build new distributed VO applications and more complex services. Look at the list of ideas below and pick one that sounds exciting or just make one up yourself! The faculty will be around to help and discuss your project plans. Good luck!

PROJECT IDEAS

• Make a movie of your pet galaxy! Write code to extract a series of images from the SDSS Imagecutout zooming in on your favorite objects. Add more flexibility by using the NED service to find the coordinates based on the object name. (Tamas)

• Composite QSO spectrum as a function of redshift? Write code using the spectrum services to select SDSS quasars in a number of redshift bins and build composite spectra for each shell. Flat z histogram inside bins? (Tamas)

• Crossmatch your catalog with Open SkyQuery! Write code to use Open SkyQuery and crossmatch your own catalog with other surveys already available. (Tamas)

• Take the Colour Segregation excercise further.

• Build a cone search service for a local catalog
  • Spitzer Archive Cone Search Server

• Build an SIAP service for a local collection of images

• Implement cone search and SIAP interfaces for an archive

• Search archives for serendipitous observations of solar system objects

• Build tool to concatenate two VOTables

• Create output filter for Excel that makes a VOTable

• Convert VOTable into Excel spreadsheet

• Build a tool that computes integrated flux in a specified aperture from images available in a SIAP service

• Implement VO resource logging to monitor use of VO services

• Convert complex shape specification into series of cone searches

• Determine smallest cone or make coverage map that encompasses the entries in a VOTable

• Universal coordinate translator. Build a Web service that converts sexagesimal coordinates (in all the various formats!) to decimal degrees and viceversa.

• Columns filter. Build a Web service that takes a VOTable or file with (c1, c2, ... cn) columns and generates a new VOTable or file with a subset of columns, for example (c1, c4, c8).

-- TamasBudavari - 10 Sep 2004