IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM90)

when: March 24, 2020

Time: 11am (Eastern), 3pm (UTC)

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Draft Agenda TM90

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of TM89
3. Review of Exec ACTIONS
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Overall TCG Status
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
7. Future Interop meetings: Sydney virtual meeting, Granada and 2021 meetings
8. Radio IG Chair and Vice Chair
9. WG/IG Chair and Vice Chair renew
10. ADASS 2022 and IVOA Interop
11. Date of next Exec meeting
12. Review of New Action Items

Reports from the Projects

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

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: 5 astronomers (a new postdoc hired in March 2020 for four years)+ 3 technical + 2 master students
Most relevant activities since February 2020

• VO papers
  • Clusterix 2.0: a virtual observatory tool to estimate cluster membership probability (Balaguer-Núñez, López del Fresno, Solano et al.)

• Workshop presentations
  • The Virtual Observatory. A way to facilitate the synergies between Gaia and the ground-based facilities (E. Solano. Invited). Expanding the Gaia legacy: the role of Spanish ground-based facilities. Barcelona. 17-19 February 2020.
  • Wide Binary and Multiple Systems of Bright Stars from Gaia-DR2 and the VO (F. Jiménez. Oral). Expanding the Gaia legacy: the role of Spanish ground-based facilities. Barcelona. 17-19 February 2020.

• Tools
  • 172 new filter added since the last report to the Filter Profile Service. 5836 filters currently available
  • VOSA usage. 2306 active users (+50 since the last report) , 7565494 objects analyzed (+56 130 since the last report) , > 190 refereed paper. The role of VOSA to facilitate the building of SEDs has been recognized by the community:

Vo-India

Vobs.it

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

NAVO report:

NAVO renewal proposal submitted February 2, oral defense March 11. We await the final recommendations of the review board.

Report from the TCG

Report from the Working Groups