Volume 334, Issue 8 pp. 818-822
Original Paper

Virtual Observatory for stellar astronomy

O. Malkov

Corresponding Author

O. Malkov

Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 48 Pyatnitskaya Street, Moscow 119017, Russia

Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia

Observatorio Astronómico Ram´on María Aller, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Avenida das Ciencias s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 48 Pyatnitskaya Street, Moscow 119017, RussiaSearch for more papers by this author
I. Zolotukhin

I. Zolotukhin

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 13 Universitetskij Prosp., Moscow 119992, Russia

Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, CNRS, 61 Av. de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France

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First published: 01 October 2013
Citations: 2

Abstract

The principal idea of the Virtual Observatory is to achieve real transparency for astronomical data, similar to transparency for all the world's documents in the World Wide Web. In the Virtual Observatory, all the world's astronomical data is available from one's desktop. All archives understand the same query language, can be accessed through a uniform interface, and diverse data can be analyzed with the same tools. In particular, facilities of the Virtual Observatory allow users to make a fast and correct analysis of objects from various surveys. It yields multi-photometry data on registered objects and makes it possible to determine stellar parameters. Methods of astronomical data analysis as well as their application to various areas of stellar astronomy are discussed in this paper. (© 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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