WP5

service activities for higher education and outreach

Massimo Ramella (INAF-OATs)

Fifth EuroVO Technology Forum, March 16-18, Heidelberg Massimo Ramella

AIDA WP5 Objectives • Provide tools for access to VO data for higher education students, for middle school teachers and students, and for amateur astronomers

• Provide some basic information on the main classes of objects available to our public within the Euro VO database.

• Offer to students a glimpse of the professional world of astronomers without the burden of a too steep learning curve.

Fifth EuroVO Technology Forum, March 16-18, Heidelberg Massimo Ramella

Phase A 1. Requirements and choice of outreach interfaces2. Production and/or modification of existing software 3. Translation of outreach interfaces4. Basic documentation with some examples

Phase B 1. Identify testers and design appealing projects for them2. Test Interface 3. Gather, translate and organize feed-back for interface revisions

Phase C 1. Produce documents (userguide, primer, examples, basic script library ...) 2. Produce basic outreach content for interface and dedicated web-site3. Distribute and promote the use of our outreach products

The work plan

Fifth EuroVO Technology Forum, March 16-18, Heidelberg Massimo Ramella

Cycle 1 (students main target, WP5 persons present in class)

Test Interface Cycle 2 (main goal: teachers self-sufficiency)

WP5 STATUS

• SOFTWARE: ONLY FEW MINOR REVISIONS

• USE CASES: LIBRARY OK AND GROWING (10 AVAILABLE)

• TRANSLATIONS: PROGRESS, BUT MORE WORK NEEDED

• WEBSITE: READY

Fifth EuroVO Technology Forum, March 16-18, Heidelberg Massimo Ramella

WP5 DIFFUSION

VO-Day in tour

WP5 Web Site

Fifth EuroVO Technology Forum, March 16-18, Heidelberg Massimo Ramella

workshops,conferences,other initiatives

sn in M47

V = 1500 km/s

angle = 2.7’

Observed year 2000

Exploded year 1054

2,7’

R

D

• time between observation and explosion:

2000 – 1054 = 946 years = 30 billions sec

• after 1000yrs the SNR has the radius:

radius = speed’ x time from explosionR = 1500 x 30 109 km = 4.5 1013 km

• distance of the supernova:

D = R / angle (radians) = 2 kpc

D = 6500 light years