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Project: Virtual Observatory of China
Description: Virtual Observatory of China (China-VO) is a consortium initiated by National Astronomical Observatory of China (NAOC) and Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) project. The telescope will be located at the Xinglong Station of National Astronomical Observatory. The project began officially in 1997 and has a planned completion date of 2004, with its budget of RMB 235 million yuan (about 27.65 million USD). Based on layered GRID infrastructure, China-VO will cooperate with other VO projects to solve common challenges including the definition of a whole set of interoperability protocols. Being characteristic as a powerful spectroscopic sky survey telescope, LAMOST needs and will provide a software toolkit to automatically process its huge spectral data. China-VO will act as a key role in developing the toolkit and making it available to globe Virtual Observatory. The sky survey of LAMOST needs a well-predefined observation target catalog, which will benefit from the abundant international astronomical archives interconnected through International VO. The core task for China-VO is to make LAMOST scientific archives accessible online.
Participants: Department of Astronomy, Peking University; Astrophysics Center, Tsinghua University; Center for Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China; Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, NAOC, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sponsors: Chinese Academy of Science
Countries Involved: China
Tools: GT2, GT3
Contact: Chenzhou Cui
