Synthesis models in the VO framework

TL;DR

This paper discusses efforts to integrate evolutionary synthesis models into the Virtual Observatory framework, highlighting tools like PGos3 and addressing challenges in standardizing model descriptions for better usage.

Contribution

It introduces the VO tool PGos3 that includes public SSP models and discusses the challenges of standardizing synthesis models within the VO framework.

Findings

Development of PGos3 tool with SSP models

Identification of problems in including synthesis models in VO

Encouragement for standardizing model descriptions

Abstract

The theory interest group in the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) has the goal of ensuring that theoretical data and services are taken into account in the IVOA standards process. In this poster we present some of the efforts carried out by this group to include evolutionary synthesis models in the VO framework. In particular we present the VO tool PGos3, developed by the INAOE (Mexico) and the Spanish Virtual Observatory which includes most of public SSP models in the VO framework (e.g. VOSpec). We also describe the problems related with the inclusion of synthesis models in the VO framework and we try to encourage people to define the way in which synthesis models should be described. This issue has implications not only for the inclusion of synthesis models in the the VO framework but also for a proper usage of synthesis models.