Astro-CC European Data Provider Forum

Session

Welcome and Logistics

25 mars 2026, 09:00

Heidelberg

15. Welcome and Logistics

Markus Hans Demleitner (Uni Heidelberg/GAVO)

25/03/2026 11:00

13. Introduction to Astro-CC

Mark Allen (CDS/CNRS)

25/03/2026 11:20

14. Keynote

25/03/2026 11:40

16. Lightning talks

25/03/2026 12:10

1. Integrated Programmatic Access at ESO

Juan Manuel Carmona Loaiza (ESO)

26/03/2026 09:00

2. Modernizing ESA Science Archives: Reusable Components and Automated HiPS Generation in a VO-Aligned ecosystem

Antonio Ortega Perez (Starion for ESA), Laura Masselos (Starion for ESA)

26/03/2026 09:20

Recent developments at the ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC) significantly enhance how the scientific community accesses, explores, and exploits mission data. Two key innovations will be highlighted in this talk: the automatic HiPS generation pipeline for XMM‑Newton and the set of widgets deployed within a modernized infrastructure, to be integrated seamlessly within the different Science...

3. Towards FAIR low-frequency radio data

Yan Grange (ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)

26/03/2026 09:40

LOFAR is the world's largest low-frequency radio telescope. Since its official opening in 2010, it has produced data which has formed the basis for more than 1,000 refereed publications, spanning areas as diverse as extragalactic astrophysics, solar physics, and terrestrial lightning. The system is currently undergoing a major upgrade: over the coming years, it will become massively more...

4. TBD

Freek Verstringe (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

26/03/2026 10:00

5. EPN-TAP access to Solar System data

Stephane Erard (LIRA / ObsParis)

26/03/2026 11:00

6. Daiquiri - Python based framework for the publication of astrophysical data

Anastasia Galkin (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP))

26/03/2026 11:20

Over the years, the AIP has developed significant expertise in long-term operation and the curation of astronomical data archives. This experience is a major reason why the AIP is now one of the partner data centers for the ESA Gaia mission. The institute publishes not only its own telescope observations but also data from various international missions in which the AIP is involved. The range...

7. SVOCat: Simplifying Astronomical Catalogue Publication for the Virtual Observatory

Raúl Gutiérrez-Sánchez (Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, CSIC-INTA))

26/03/2026 11:40

This talk introduces SVOCat, an application developed by the Spanish Virtual Observatory and specifically designed to simplify the process of publishing astronomical catalogues. SVOCat enables data providers to transform their data into both a user-friendly web interface and a standardised Virtual Observatory (VO) service, supporting ConeSearch and SSAP protocols. We will present the features...

8. Citing data query

Gilles Landais (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, CDS)

26/03/2026 12:00

I will list possible contents extracted from VO that authors could reference or cite in the article. It includes acknowledgments, but also resources such as datasets (with persistent identifier like DOI) or services, which are used to generate an article. But it could also consist of giving a way to cite a query or a particular record.

9. Compute4PUNCH & Storage4PUNCH: The Platforms for the analysis and Astronomical Data management

Prateek Gupta (Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg)

27/03/2026 09:00

Sky surveys in different electromagnetic wavebands and large cosmological simulations often result in significant astronomical data. The first challenge in this process is to have an efficient data management system where this huge amount of data can be stored and made available to the scientific community under the FAIR principle. Storage4PUNCH (S4P) is one of the major components of PUNCH...

10. Bridging Domain-Specific Data Center and Cross-Domain Metadata Frameworks

Victoria Tokareva (KIT)

27/03/2026 09:20

Bridging Domain-Specific Data Center and Cross-Domain Metadata Frameworks
Abstract The KASCADE Cosmic-Ray Data Centre (KCDC) is a domain-specific data provider for high-energy astroparticle physics. Established in 2013, it was among the first platforms to provide full open access to data from the KASCADE and KASCADE-Grande experiments. Over time, KCDC has expanded beyond experimental event...

11. Update on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's alert stream

Dr Markus Hundertmark (Heidelberg University, ZAH)

27/03/2026 09:40

The first alerts relayed by Rubin alert brokers are expected in February 2026. We will provide an update on the initial operations phase of Rubin Observatory and discuss how the Transient and Variable Science Collaboration is preparing, as well as how its microlensing subgroup plans to filter alerts.

12. Spectra in the Virtual Observatory — From Under Both Hats

Petr Skoda (Astronomical Institute Czech Academy of Sciences)

27/03/2026 10:00

The Virtual Observatory (VO) is often viewed by astronomers as a tool for convenient handling of large catalogues and imaging surveys, with cross-matching across electromagnetic and astroparticle domains as its key feature. Yet, although spectroscopy provides much of our understanding of celestial objects, spectral data management in the VO remains suboptimal and its full capabilities are...