An Extragalactic HI Node within the National Virtual Observatory

国家虚拟天文台（NVO）是许多大型和多样化的天文数据库的在线门户网站，正在成为不可或缺的研究工具。由于新的望远镜在许多不同的光谱状态下获得了pb级的天文信息，快速、强大和强大的访问手段对于通过有效的交叉引用大型数据库提取最大的理解将是至关重要的。成功的研究人员需要掌握的最关键的一套新技能，也是当前天文学研究生应该学习的技能，是使他们能够利用这些新的研究工具。该奖项将使PI和他在康奈尔大学的研究小组能够在NVO环境中创建一个河外HI节点，并在此过程中培养一代开发和使用在线门户网站的研究生。

AST-0435697PI : Giovanelli, RiccardoInst: Cornell UniversityThe National Virtual Observatory (NVO), an online portal to many large and diverse astronomical databases, is on its way to becoming an indispensable research tool. As petabytes of astronomical information are acquired by new telescopes in many different spectral regimes, fast, powerful and robust means of access will be of paramount importance in extracting maximal understanding through effective cross--referencing of giant databases. The most critical new set of skills that successful researchers will need to master and that current graduate students in Astronomy should be taught, is that which will allow them to take advantage of those new research tools. This award will enable the PI and his research group at Cornell to create an extragalactic HI node within the NVO environment and, in the process, train a generation of graduate students in the development and use of online portals.