Virtual instrumentation to study galaxies

Ph. Prugniel, I. Chilingarian, H. Flores, J. Guibert, R. Haigron, I. Jegouzo, F. Royer, F. Tajahmady, G. Theureau, J. Vetois

Published 2004-10-13Version 1

The MIGALE project (http://www.sai.msu.su/migale) provides databases and data analysis tools to study the evolution of galaxies from z=1 to z=0. It develops and maintain a general database, HyperLeda, to give a homogenized parameterization for 3 million objects, and several archives or specialized databases. It also develops tools to analyse on-the-fly data extracted from the database or obtained through the Virtual Observatory (Virtual Instruments). The package made for this project, Pleinpot, is distributed as open source.