Enabling Distributed Search and Access to SDO Data with the Virtual Solar Observatory
Alisdair R. Davey, P. C. H. Martens, J. B. Gurman, Joseph A. Hourclé, F. Hill, F. I. Suarez-Sola, Arthur B. Amezcua, R. S. Bogart, John L. Spencer · 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly · 2010
Research in Astrophysics from Space (E)New Views of the Sun with SDO (E22)ENABLING DISTRIBUTED SEARCH AND ACCESS TO SDO DATA WITHTHE VIRTUAL SOLAR OBSERVATORYAlisdair Davey, [email protected] Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThe VSO TeamA. Davey, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics P. Martens, Department of Physics ,Montana State University J. Gurman, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA J. Hourcle, God-dard Space Flight Center, NASA F. Hill, National Solar Observatory F. Suarez-Sola, NationalSolar Observatory A. Amezcua, Stanford University R. Bogart, Stanford University J. Spencer,Stanford UniversityThe Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO) will be an integral part of distributing Solar DynamicsObservatory (SDO) data to the Solar Physics community and in enabling it to be searched byscientists. A daily data volume of 1.5TB presents unique challenges, and the VSO has beenworking on enhancing various aspects of its infrastructure to deal with them. The VSO willprovide a dedicated interface to SDO data, providing common methods users of VSO alreadyknow, as well as new methods that reect the needs of interacting with AIA, HMI and EVEdata. VSO has created a data distribution architecture based up the Joint Science OperationsCenter (JSOC) infrastructure, that in partnership with NASA Solar Data Analysis Center,National Solar Observatory, Royal Observatory Belgium, University College Lancashire, MaxPlanck Institute for Solar System Research and the Institute d’Astrophysique Spatiale (Orsay)will enable scientists to retrieve SDO data of interest in the fastest possible way. VSO is workingclosely with the Helioviewer and Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase (HEK) teams to ensure wewill be able to use their e orts and be used by their e orts for data retrieval. In this manner,graphical, IDL-based and event approaches to data discovery will be fully supported by theVSO.