VSO For Dummies

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May 2009

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American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #40, #15.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.836

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We report on our activities to integrate VSO search and retrieval capabilities into standard data access, display, and analysis tools. In addition to its standard Web-based search form, the VSO provides an Interactive Data Language (IDL) client (vso_search) that is available through the Solar Software (SSW) package. We have incorporated this client into an IDL-widget interface program (show_synop) that allows for more simplified searching and downloading of VSO datasets directly into a user's IDL data analysis environment. In particular, we have provided the capability to read VSO datasets into a general purpose IDL package (plotman) that can display different datatypes (lightcurves, images, and spectra) and perform basic data operations such as zooming, image overlays, solar rotation, etc. Currently, the show_synop tool supports access to ground-based and space-based (SOHO, STEREO, and Hinode) observations, and has the capability to include new datasets as they become available.
A user encounters two major hurdles when using the VSO: (1) Instrument-specific software (such as level-0 file readers and data-prepping procedures) may not be available in the user's local SSW distribution. (2) Recent calibration files (such as flat-fields) are not automatically distributed with the analysis software. To address these issues, we have developed a dedicated server (prepserver) that incorporates all the latest instrument-specific software libraries and calibration files. The prepserver uses an IDL-Java bridge to read and implement data processing requests from a client and return a processed data file that can be readily displayed with the show_synop/plotman package. The advantage of the prepserver is that the user is only required to install the general branch (gen) of the SSW tree, and is freed from the more onerous task of installing instrument-specific libraries and calibration files. We will demonstrate how the prepserver can be used to read, process, and overlay SOHO/EIT, TRACE, SECCHI/EUVI, and RHESSI images.

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