中国虚拟天文台数据访问服务

Data Access Service of China-VO

随着科学技术的进步和大批天文观测项目的实施,天文数据正在呈现爆炸式的增长,天文学正进入一个数据富庶的时代。虚拟天文台项目的首要目标就是要解决这些高度分散、复杂、海量的天文数据的统一访问和管理,实现全球天文数据资源的融合,使天文学家能够高效快捷的获取所需的天文数据。中国虚拟天文台项目基于目前的网格技术,设计和实现网格环境下天文数据的查询访问服务,并为客户应用提供统一的访问接口。本文重点介绍了我们采用GlobusToolkit网格开发工具包,按照国际虚拟天文台联盟最新制订的天文数据标准,完成对天文星表数据资源的网格服务封装,实现天文星表锥形查询(ConeSearch)和星表查询网格两个数据服务的工作,并介绍了如何使用天文数据服务搭建其他网格服务。

With the development of technologies and the implementation of large quantity of astronomical observation projects, astronomy faces data avalanche and has entered an information era. A basic aim of the Virtual Observatory is to provide uniform access to highly distributed, complicated, huge astronomical datasets, and to realize federation of global astronomical data resources, so that astronomers can obtain required data efficiently and conveniently for their research. China Virtual Observatory (China-VO) project designs and implements astronomical data access services based on Grid technology, and provides uniform interface to Grid client application.In this paper, we introduce the data access service toolkit development using Globus Toolkit, the Grid services encapsulation of catalogs according to the latest astronomical data standards recommended by International Virtual Observatory Alliance,the implements of catalog Cone Search access service. Furthermore, we also introduce how to construct other Grid services using above data access services.