HR: 0800h
AN: SH21B-0415    [Abstracts]
TI: Solving Science Use Cases that relate to the Sun and Heliosphere with EGSO
AU: * Bentley, R D
EM: rdb@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NT United Kingdom
AU: * Bentley, R D
EM: rdb@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT United Kingdom
AU: Scholl, I
AF: International Space University, Strasbourg Central Campus Parc d'Innovation, Illkirch-Graffenstdn, F-67400 France
AU: Csillaghy, A
AF: University of Applied Science, Inst. of Computer Science Steinackerstrasse 5, Windisch, 5210 Switzerland
AU: Aboudarham, J
AF: Observatoire de Paris, DASOP-LESIA Place Janssen 5, Paris, F-92190 France
AU: Antonucci, E
AF: INAF-Turin Astronomical Observatory, Via Osservatorio 20, Pino Torinese, 10025 Italy
AU: Gurman, J B
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar Data Analysis Center Code 682.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Hill, F
AF: National Solar Observatory, PO Box 26732 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tuscon, AZ 85726 United States
AU: Pike, D
AF: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Space Science and Technology Dept., Didcot, OX11 0QX United Kingdom
AU: Vial, J
AF: Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Batiment 121 Univerite Paris-sud, Orsay, F-91405 France
AU: Zharkova, V
AF: University of Bradford, Dept. of Cybernetics Richmond Road, Bradford, BD7 1DP United Kingdom
AB: The European Grid of Solar Observations (EGSO) is a grid testbed funded by the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme under its Information Society Technologies (IST) thematic priority. The project started in 2002 and is designed to provide enhanced access to solar and related data around the world. The EGSO grid is composed of two main components, Roles to set up the grid and, catalogs and registries to allow roles to answer users queries. Catalogs are made of lists of observations, events and features (a new service provided by EGSO). Registries are built from these catalogs and organized in order to enhance search capabilities. EGSO is working closely with other virtual observatory (VO) projects in the solar physics and related domains. This includes the US Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO) and the Collaborative Sun-Earth Connector (CoSEC). More recently we have been working with the Virtual Space Plasma Observatory (VSPO) and have contact with the Virtual Heliospheric Observatory (VHO). Through discussions with future missions, and within the new IAU Working Group on ``International Data Access'' (Solar and Heliospheric), the VOs are studying ways of ensuring interoperability from the ``sun to dirt''. This type of integrated access will be particularly important to missions such as STEREO and Living Witha Star. In this paper we will report the current status of EGSO, demonstrate how the catalogs and registries model serves within the user interface, and show how the user can retrieve solar and heliospheric data to match a scientific query. EGSO Release 4 is now being Beta-tested by users and anyone interested should view the Web page detailing all the EGSO capabilities under http://www.egso.org/demo
UR: http://www.egso.org
DE: 7500 SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY
DE: 7594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 7599 General or miscellaneous
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting