The National Virtual Observatory

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2001-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0108381v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, uses newpasp.sty (included), to appear in "Extragalactic Gas at Low Redshfit", ASP Conf. Series, J. S. Mulchaey and J

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As a scientific discipline, Astronomy is rather unique. We only have one laboratory, the Universe, and we cannot, of course, change the initial conditions and study the resulting effects. On top of this, acquiring Astronomical data has historically been a very labor-intensive effort. As a result, data has traditionally been preserved for posterity. With recent technological advances, however, the rate at which we acquire new data has grown exponentially, which has generated a Data Tsunami, whose wave train threatens to overwhelm the field. In this conference proceedings, we present and define the concept of virtual observatories, which we feel is the only logical answer to this dilemma.

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