EVALSO: enabling virtual access to Latin American southern observatories

R. Cirami; I. Coretti; P. Di Marcantonio; M. Pucillo; P. Santin

doi:10.1117/12.788317

16 July 2008 EVALSO: enabling virtual access to Latin American southern observatories

R. Cirami, I. Coretti, P. Di Marcantonio, M. Pucillo, P. Santin

Proceedings Volume 7019, Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II; 701936 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788317
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

In the field of observational astrophysics, the remoteness of the facilities and the ever increasing data volumes and detectors poses new technological challenges. As an example, the VISTA and VST wide field telescopes, which are being constructed at the ESO's Cerro Paranal Observatory and will be ready in the next few years, have cameras which will produce after just one year of operation a volume of data that will exceed all the data collected by the VLT since the start of operations in 1999. This sets serious limitations if such large quantities of data must be transferred and accessed in a short time by the participating European Institutions. The EVALSO project, approved by the European Community, addresses these targets in two major ways. It will create a physical infrastructure to efficiently connect these facilities to Europe. This infrastructure will be complementary to the international infrastructure already created in the last years with the EC support (RedCLARA, ALICE, GEANT). Besides this, it will provide the astronomers with Virtual Presence (VP), i.e. the tools to perform and control an astronomical observation from the user's site. The main role of INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (OAT) within the project will be the definition of the architecture, the development of VP system and the integration of a prototype to be used as a demonstrator. This paper will focus on the description of the Virtual Presence system.

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R. Cirami, I. Coretti, P. Di Marcantonio, M. Pucillo, and P. Santin "EVALSO: enabling virtual access to Latin American southern observatories", Proc. SPIE 7019, Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II, 701936 (16 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788317

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