Astrophysical Virtual Observatory


The Astrophysical Virtual Observatory project conducted a research and demonstration programme on the scientific requirements and technologies necessary to build a virtual observatory for European astronomy. The AVO has been jointly funded by the European Commission with six European organisations participating in a three-year Phase-A work programme, valued at 5 million euro. The partner organisations were the European Southern Observatory in Munich, Germany, the European Space Agency, AstroGrid, the CNRS-supported Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg, the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France, the CNRS-supported TERAPIX astronomical data centre at the Institut d'Astrophysique in Paris, France, and the Jodrell Bank Observatory of the Victoria University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
The Phase A program focussed its effort in the following areas: