VESPA: A community-driven Virtual Observatory in Planetary Science

Stéphane Erard (1) , Baptiste Cecconi (1) , Pierre Le Sidaner (2) , Angelo Pio Rossi (3) , Maria Teresa Capria (4) , Bernard Schmitt (5) , Vincent Génot (6) , Nicolas André (6) , Ann Carine Vandaele (7) , Manuel Scherf (8) , Ricardo Hueso (9) , Anni Määttänen (10) , William Thuillot (11) , Benoît Carry (11, 12) , Nicholas Achilleos (13) , Chiara Marmo (14) , Ondřej Santolík (15) , Kevin Benson (16) , Pierre Fernique (17) , L. Beigbeder (18) , Ehouarn Millour (19) , Batiste Rousseau (1) , François Andrieu (1) , Cyril Chauvin (2) , Mikhail Minin (3) , S. Ivanoski (4) , A. Longobardo (4) , Philippe Bollard (5) , Damien Albert (5) , Michel Gangloff (6) , Nathanael Jourdane (6) , M. Bouchemit (6) , J.-M. Glorian (6) , Loic Trompet (7) , T. Al-Ubaidi (20) , J. Juaristi (9) , J. Desmars (11) , P. Guio (13) , O. Delaa (14) , A. Lagain (14) , J. Soucek (15) , D. Pisa (15)

1 LESIA (UMR_8109) - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
2 DIO - PADC - Direction Informatique de l'Observatoire - Composante PADC
3 Jacobs University = Constructor University [Bremen]
4 IAPS - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF
5 IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
6 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
7 BIRA-IASB - Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy / Institut d'Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique
8 IWF - Institut für Weltraumforschung = Space Research institute [Graz]
9 Escuela de Ingeniería de Bilbao
10 PLANETO - LATMOS
11 IMCCE - Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides
12 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
13 Department of Physics and Astronomy [UCL London]
14 GEOPS - Géosciences Paris Sud
15 IAP - Institute of Atmospheric Physics [Prague]
16 MSSL - Mullard Space Science Laboratory
17 ObAS - Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg
18 GFI Informatique
19 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)
20 IWF - Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences

The VESPA data access system focuses on applying Virtual Observatory (VO) standards and tools to Planetary Science. Building on a previous EC-funded Europlanet program, it has reached maturity during the first year of a new Europlanet 2020 program (started in 2015 for 4 years). The infrastructure has been upgraded to handle many fields of Solar System studies, with a focus both on users and data providers. This paper describes the broad lines of the current VESPA infrastructure as seen by a potential user, and provides examples of real use cases in several thematic areas. These use cases are also intended to identify hints for future developments and adaptations of VO tools to Planetary Science.

Mots clés: GIS; Solar System; Virtual Observatory

Domaines: Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]; Physique [physics]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Stéphane Erard, Baptiste Cecconi, Pierre Le Sidaner, Angelo Pio Rossi, Maria Teresa Capria, et al.. VESPA: A community-driven Virtual Observatory in Planetary Science. Planetary and Space Science, 2018, 150, pp.65-85. ⟨10.1016/j.pss.2017.05.013⟩. ⟨hal-02360661⟩