Multi-wavelength Astronomy using VOSpec Deborah Baines European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)

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Multi-wavelength Astronomy using VOSpec Deborah Baines European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) Science Archives and VO Team. Outline. The VOSpec tool and it’s functionalities Access to services: Simple Spectral, Simple Line and Theoretical Services VOSpec Demo VOSpec in the literature - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)

Multi-wavelength Astronomy using VOSpec

Deborah Baines

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Science Archives and VO Team

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

Outline

The VOSpec tool and it’s functionalities

Access to services: Simple Spectral, Simple Line and Theoretical Services

VOSpec Demo

VOSpec in the literature

Summary

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

VOSpec Multi-wavelength spectral

analysis tool developed at ESAC by ESA-VO

Create a SED with spectra from:• a wide range of different providers

registered in the VO Registry• local data (FITS, ASCII, VOT)• User-friendly (true!) SSAP

Wrapper applied on your own set of local spectra.

Graphical options:• plot colour, title and axis label

modifications• Zoom/unzoom • Automatic conversion of all units

via dimensional analysis.

ISO LWSHST

ISO PHT

EUVE

HUT

HST FOSIUE

INES

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

VOSpec: spectral analysis functionalities

Line fitting (Gaussian, Lorentzian, Voigt).

Rest-frame (redshift correction) Spectral arithmetic and convolution

between spectra. De-reddening

• Calzetti law• Cardelli-O’Donnell law• LMC

Fit of an absorption line profile with different models (Gaussian, Lorentzian, Voigt)

Arithmetic between spectra

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

Continuum fitting (BB, polynomial). Integrated flux, line flux and equivalent

width calculations. Filtering

• Averaging • Convolution• Wavelet

Tuning: rebinning, reject zero points, cut spectrum.

Mirroring: line and spectrum mirroring. Bisector Wavelength-to-velocity conversion.

Polynomial fitting

VOSpec: spectral analysis functionalities cont.

Filtering

Bisector applied to a spectrum in velocity space

Line MirroringSpectrum Mirroring

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

Simple Spectral Access (SSA) services

SSA services accessed by VOSpec• SSA services registered in the VO

registry.• Over 30 services.• 10 within the past year which

include:• Hubble Legacy Archive (HLC)

(near-UV to near-IR)• AXIS-XMS (An XMM

International Survey – X-ray Medium Survey). 319 X-ray sources observed in optical.

• EPIC Spectra for the 2XMMi Catalogue. 96176 EPIC spectra.

• HEROS spectrograph, 6000 high resolution (R=20000) spectra, in optical.

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

Simple Line Access through VOSpec

VOSpec provides access to atomic and molecular line Databases (SLAP):– NIST Atomic Spectra– CHIANTI (X-rays)– CIELO (XMM-Newton)– IASD (ISO)– LERMA (molecular)– STSCI (UV)

• This allows on-the-fly identification of transitions associated to a given observed feature.

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

Access to Theoretical models (TSAP)

10 Theoretical Spectral Services accessed by VOSpec which include: • Evolutionary synthesis

models • Models of stellar

atmospheres, e.g. Kurucz, PGos3

• D’Alessio models of pre-main sequence stellar discs.

The VOSpec Normalization tool can be applied to both theoretical and non-calibrated spectra.

Kurucz stellar model and D’Alessio model of PMS discs fit to UV and IR spectra of HD 141569

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

The power of interoperability

GB2MASS SDSS

ROSATChandra

AstroScope: catalogue search

Aladin: multipanel imaging

VOSpec: generation of SEDsTOPCAT: tabular data plotting/manipulation

(PLASTIC)

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

Demo – A typical session:

http://www.sciops.esa.int/SD/ESAVO/images/VOSpec/VOSpec_ABAur_flash.htm

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

VOSpec in the literature Scientific cases/papers (not complete):

• Guainazzi M. et al (2008) ‘Catalogue of ionized emission line spectra in obscured AGN’, AdSpR, 41, 1998.

• Guainazzi et al (2007) ‘A VO-based solution to the origin of soft X-ray emission in obscured AGN’, HiA, 14, 582, Proceedings of the IAU, 2006.

• Richards, et al (2005) ‘Hunting post-AGB/RSG objects using Virtual Observatories and other internet-based technology’, MmSAI, 76, 467.

Technical papers: • Laruelo A. et al (2008) ‘VOSpec Spectral Analysis Tools’, ASPC, 394,

513.• Salgado J. et al (2007) ‘How to Access Spectral Line Databases in the

IVOA: SLAP Services in VOSpec’, ASPC, 376, 603.• Osuna P. et al (2006), ‘Theoretical Support to Observational data in VO

Context’, ASPC, 351, 363.

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

VOSpec Summary

On-the-fly SED generation with VOSpec

- Spectra access from SSAP-compatible server

- Automatic handling of units Spectral analysis tools

- Large number of spectral analysis tools available

- Multi-component fit possible Interoperability

- VOSpec uses PLASTIC Literature

- VOSpec beginning to be used by the scientific community Usage on large sets of data

- Mainly designed to handle one source at the time → highly interactive.

- Good News: ability to handle large lists of objects about to be developed.

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)Villafranca del Castillo, MADRID (SPAIN)Deborah BainesESAC, 1-3 Dec 2008

To know more VOSpec web pages:http://esavo.esac.esa.int ->http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php?project=ESAVO&page=vospec

To launch VOSpec:

http://esavo.esac.esa.int/vospec/

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