1112.4021 (Petr Škoda)
Petr Škoda
The contemporary astronomical instruments have been producing the
unprecedented amount of data. The largest part of this "data avalanche" is
being produced by deep all-sky surveys yielding terabytes of raw data per
night. Such a great data volumes can hardly even been reduced by automatic
pipelines running on supercomputer grids but it is impossible to exploit fully
their content by a small group of professional astronomers in the interested
research teams. New tools for collaborative work with heterogeneous data sets
spread over distant servers are being developed in the framework of the Virtual
Observatory (VO). As many VO resources are freely available on the Internet, a
new opportunity opens for the amateur astronomers to do professional research
using these tools in an Internet browser on a moderately fast connection. We
give short overview of current and future sky surveys producing data on a
millions of targets - hence the term Megasurveys, and we introduce the basic
principles of Virtual Observatory and its current applications
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4021
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