Summer School Projects

Look at the list of ideas below and pick one that sounds exciting or make one up yourself! Start that VO research project you were interested in, or make your data available to the community. The faculty will be around to help and discuss your project plans. We encourage you to work with other students to pool your talents and knowledge. A few of the projects that were done in the previous summer schools are included below to illustrate the scope of what you can do. Good luck!

Suggested Project Ideas, 2004, 2005, 2006

• Make a website just like Flickr, but for amateur astronomers who have astrometric FITS images. Search over sky position should be possible.

• Make a Google-like interface to the Virtual Observatory (SS2004)

• Build a tool to correct spectra for interstellar aborption (SS2004)

• Build on the VOEvent protocol for interchange of information on rapid-response temporal events.

• 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)

• Build a cone search service for a local catalog

• Spitzer Archive Cone Search Server (SS2004)

• 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

• Understand the splendid ANCHORS system from Chandra, and convert it to be "VO-compliant".

• 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).

• SpectroPhotometry

• GalaxyDecompositionService YogeshWadadekar - 12 Sep 2005

• ImageComparer -- ColinAspin - 08 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• ImageCalibrator -- ColinAspin - 08 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• TwoColorDiagramPlotter -- ColinAspin - 08 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• PublicDataScope -- JordanRaddick - 08 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• More on ANCHORS -- BradSpitzbart - 08 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• EducationProjectsRegistry -- JordanRaddick - 09 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• WcsCatFixer -- AugustMuench - 09 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• SourceDetailer -- ColinAspin - 09 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• ImageStandardizer -- ColinAspin - 09 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• SEDBol -- DavidFloyd - 09 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• DeepQSO -- DavidFloyd - 09 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• PhotonDatabase -- Takayuki.Tamura - 09 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• SPM3Catalog -- KatherineVieiraRosa - 11 Sep 2006 - SS 2006

• MagellanicSystemExploratoryStudy -- KatherineVieiraRosa - 11 Sep 2006 - SS 2006

• DarkEnergyMission -- DonLindler - 11 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• Build a cone search service for a local catalog and xmatch sources -- HowardLanning - 11 Sep 2006 - SS2206

• Search for the warm-hot intracluster medium. -- Takayuki.Tamura - 11 Sep - SS2206

• AEGIServer -- DavidRosario - 11 Sep 2006 - SS2006

• SIAP simple server/client platform? -- PetrSkoda - 11 Sep 2006 SS2006

• Astronomer Workflow Editor -- AnthonyRogers - 11 Sep 2006 SS2006

• Nh Column Density Service -- DouglasBurke - 14 Sep 2006 SS2006