IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM88)

when: November 26, 2019, 11am (Eastern time)

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Draft Agenda TM88

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of FM87 ( ivoa_fm87_101019.pdf)
3. Review of Exec ACTIONS ( ACTIONS_for_TM88.pdf)
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Overall TCG Status
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
7. CSP update on radio astronomy interest group (B. Merin)
8. IVOA NL representation requirements (Y. Grange, M. Allen)
9. Future Interops: Sydney May 2020 (S. O'Toole), Granada Nov 2020 ( ivoa2020_report_nov2019.pdf E. Solano)
10. IVOA and ADASS agreement about interop meetings (C. Arviset)
11. Remaining actions to finalize DOIs assignment to IVOA standards (C. Arviset)
12. Code of Conduct (M. Allen)
13. Process for managing changes to docs on GitHub
14. Date of next Exec meeting
15. Review of New Action Items

Reports from the Projects

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

The China-VO and Astroinformatics 2019 will be open tomorrow. More than 140 participants are registered. The themes of the event is "Science platform and open science".

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

ESA

France VO - Action Spécifique Observatoires Virtuels France (ASOV)

GAVO

HVO

JVO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

• National funds secured until the end of 2020
• Manpower: 4 astronomers (1 new recruitment. Started on July 2019. Contract duration: 4 years) + 3 technical + 1 student
• Most relevant activities since May 2019
  • VO papers
    • Identification of asteroids using the Virtual Observatory: the WFCAM Transit Survey. Cortés-Contreras et al. 2019MNRAS.490.3046C
    • Infrared-excess white dwarfs in the Gaia 100 pc sample. Rebassa-Mansergas et al. 2019MNRAS.489.3990R
    • The Gran Telescopio Canarias OSIRIS Broad Band First Data Release. Cortés-Contreras et al. 2019MNRAS.tmp.2601C
    • The ssos pipeline: Identification of Solar System objects in astronomical images. Mahlke et al. 2019A&C....2800289M
    • Extended halo of NGC 2682 (M 67) from Gaia DR2. Carrera et al. 2019A&A...627A.119C
    • J-PLUS: discovery and characterization of ultracool dwarfs using Virtual Observatory tools. Solano et al. 2019A&A...627A..29S
• • Oral contributions
    • Identification of Asteroids Using the Virtual Observatory: The WFCAM Transit Survey. Cortés-Contreras et al. 2019cpes.conf...17C. Ciencias Planetarias y Exploración del Sistema Solar, CPESS6 Congress, 27-29 May, 2019 Madrid, Spain.
    • The SSOS Pipeline: Identification of Serendipitously Observed Solar System Objects in Images of Ground-Based Observatories 2019cpes.conf...15M Ciencias Planetarias y Exploración del Sistema Solar, CPESS6 Congress, 27-29 May, 2019 Madrid, Spain.
• • Poster contributions
    • Transient characterization using the Virtual Observatory. Sciops 2019. Madrid, spain. November 2019
  • Tools
    • 479 new filters added to the Filter Profile Service. 5060 filter already available.
    • VOSA usage: 2168 active users. 7157106 objects analyzed. >180 refereed papers.

Education and Outreach

The Virtual Observatory for the amateur community and the general public. E. Solano. Cuenca, Spain. November 2019

Participation in the ESA Open Day 2019 with the SVO citizen science project to discover near Earth asteroids using VO tools (https://twitter.com/ObsVirtEsp/status/1185607690292203522/photo/2)

Master Thesis. "Identification and charcaterization of Mira variable stars using the Virtual Observatory"· May 2019.

XIV SVO school. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. November 2019

Press release on the publication of the GTC-OSIRIS catalogue.

Vo-India

Vobs.it

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

Report from the TCG

Report from the Working Groups