Synthesis models in the VO framework

Cerviño, M.; Terlevich, E.; Terlevich, R.; Rodrigo-Blanco, C.; Luridiana, V.; López, A.; Solano, E.
Referencia bibliográfica

Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #241. Edited by A. Vazdekis and R. F. Peletier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp.171-172

Fecha de publicación:
8
2007
Número de autores
7
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0
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0
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Descripción
The theory interest group in the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) has the goal of ensuring that theoretical data and services are taken into account in the IVOA standards process. In this poster we present some of the efforts carried out by this group to include evolutionary synthesis models in the VO framework. In particular we present the VO tool PGos3, developed by the INAOE (Mexico) and the Spanish Virtual Observatory which includes most of public SSP models in the VO framework (e.g. VOSpec). We also describe the problems related with the inclusion of synthesis models in the VO framework and we try to encourage people to define the way in which synthesis models should be described. This issue has implications not only for the inclusion of synthesis models in the the VO framework but also for a proper usage of synthesis models.