resType: document doi: 10.21938/avVAxDlGOiu0Byv7NOZCsQ shortName: GAVO vo course creator: Demleitner, M.; Heinl, H.; Wambsganss, J. creationDate: 2024-07-25T10:00:00Z title: Using the Virtual Observatory subject:virtual-observatories subject:software-tutorials subject:distributed-computing subject:astronomy-software rightsURI: https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html type: Education contentLevel: Research contentLevel: Amateur uses: TOPCAT uses.altIdentifier: ascl:1101.010 uses: Aladin uses.altIdentifier: ascl:1112.019 uses: pyVO uses.altIdentifier: ascl:1402.004 date: 2024-07-25 date.role: inspected referenceURL: https://docs.g-vo.org/vocourse hasPart: A Short Course On ADQL hasPart.ivoId: ivo://org.gavo.dc/misc/adqlcourse hasPart: A Short Course On pyVO hasPart.ivoId: ivo://org.gavo.dc/tutreg/gavo_pyvocourse/rec This is a course on using the Virtual Observatory (VO), an international research data infrastructure in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Starting with a brief discussion of some general concepts, it introduces some of the major client programs like TOPCAT and Aladin, together with some simple discovery protocols. A first focus topic is the query language ADQL, which is treated within the equivalent of three lectures. The second major focus of the course is the premier Python interface to the VO, pyVO, which is used to also more deeply investigate the topics treated before. The course is complemented by a number of side tracks, brief discussions of more fundamental or more specialised VO topics. The course comes with many exercises, most of which also have solutions. We hope it is suitable for both self-study and as lecture notes in teacher-led situations. In the latter case, it is designed to work as a semester-long course with two hours of lectures and lab work each per week. accessURL:https://docs.g-vo.org/vocourse/notes.pdf sourceURL:https://codeberg.org/msdemlei/vo-course.git languageCode: en