AstroCloud, a Cyber-Infrastructure for Astronomy Research: Data Access and Interoperability

TL;DR

AstroCloud provides a comprehensive cyber-infrastructure that enables seamless data access, interoperability, and integration of astronomical data and resources using standards like IVOA, facilitating efficient research workflows.

Contribution

It introduces a unified data access and interoperability module leveraging IVOA standards, connecting observation data, proposals, and software across cloud and commercial platforms.

Findings

Data can be retrieved using unique identifiers or search interfaces.

Files are easily transported to cloud storage and virtual machines.

VOTable results can be integrated with VO software.

Abstract

Data access and interoperability module connects the observation proposals, data, virtual machines and software. According to the unique identifier of PI (principal investigator), an email address or an internal ID, data can be collected by PI's proposals, or by the search interfaces, e.g. conesearch. Files associated with the searched results could be easily transported to cloud storages, including the storage with virtual machines, or several commercial platforms like Dropbox. Benefitted from the standards of IVOA (International Observatories Alliance), VOTable formatted searching result could be sent to kinds of VO software. Latter endeavor will try to integrate more data and connect archives and some other astronomical resources.