Anita Richards and members of MERLIN, RadioNet and AstroGrid teams. ● 'Old' radio archive access ● Source lists, fixed images or visibility data ● Most maps only inner few arcsec, fixed resol n ● MERLIN archive on-demand imaging ● via AstroGrid, using ParselTongue ● Next-generation interferometry ● Archive development strategies ● VO requirements ● Enable all astronomers to use multi-l data On-demand radio imaging access to calibrated data for all astronomers

Flexible data products  GB – TB raw data per experiment (mins - weeks)  Visibility data Cal sources. antennas etc.  Domain-specific software  No unique product  Resolution v. sensitivity tradeoff by baseline weighting  3D/polarisation cubes, spectra, time series...  Field of view e.g. 8', image pixels 10 mas  Map out regions of interest, usually not all 10 9 pixels  Most PI results too varied to archive  Pipeline data for VOs  Quick Look static images  Flexible products to order  Raw data option rarely wanted if alternatives!

Interferometry visibility amplitude v. baseline length Calibrated, binned visibility amplitudes Quick-look image Data cube First Moment Data examples

IR from warm dust in remnant AGB shell (IRAS, ISO, 2MASS) Non-thermal nebular radiocontinuum (various - Vollmer catalogue) Hot stellar emission FUSE, IUE  Non-expert access pre  Major surveys e.g. FIRST  Ready-made FITS images Aladin  Catalogues: SpecFind

MERLIN 2005 Web forms: static images Calibrated visibility data  Visibilities live on disc, calibrated  Sample products  User version of pipeline  Still need AIPS

What's wrong with that?  Dedicated web site fine for PIs of major projects Able to use domain-specific projects Even PIs look at pipeline calibration/images first!  Not really friendly for non-experts  Not convenient for multi-wavelength  Can't be used easily in workflows  Need VO access  Single interface to many archives  Standard metadata  Static quick-look products  Flexible data products  ATCA prototype imager used VO model

2006 AstroGrid Workbench MERLINImager Simple inputs Name/ Pos (Size Resln Freq Date)

User AstroGrid Workbench Task Launcher MERLINImager Position, size, n, resol n, date Registry CEA JBO server Python (perl/dbi) ParselTongue Select AIPS data Image best 5 (calibration, fov) FITS images, logs, to public HTML area SIAP VOTable2006 AstroGrid Task RadioNet package MERLINImager MySpace Aladin, TopCat Download

 Start AIPS No  SPLIT with/out channel averaging (f.o.v. required)  Fix known polarization etc. bugs - heuristics  Reweight, set beam/pixel size  Run IMAGR incl. field centre  Run SUBIM if necessary  Save to disc/web area  Write metadata to Simple Image Access Protocol VOTable Using parselTongue

Interoperability (Plastic)  Matching resolution  Spectral index image 18 cm 6 cm Steep spectrum – SE not AGN HST 110,160, 220

Coming soon: M+VLA HDF(N) cutouts 1” 10 mJy contours + X-ray selected AGN2 1 < z < AGN Starburst with AGN core Starburst

Next Generation Interferometers  e-MERLIN, eVBLI, EVLA ATCA/LBA, LOFAR, GMRT, ALMA, SKA etc  Committed to VO access  Software development RadioNet – ParselTongue (Python over e.g. AIPS) NRAO – CASA (aips++ based, Python scripting). ESO – XML binary and metadata storage  'B2E' obs-to-archive integrated data path  Metadata retrieval  Flexible remote processing of products  VO components in archive management?  Cornish, GMRT, MMB and other surveys

Beginning-to-End (B2E) Science proposal Science products Schedule Quality control Basic irreversible correlation, calibration etc. Capture data and intentions Public access Standard calibration pipeline Steerable pipeline Processing history, metadata Archive Re-extraction recalibration etc Key projects Major surveys Standard products documented methods

Data model Mkn 18 cm Data model Mkn 18 cm

Development of VO access  Expand/apply VO standards  Spatial frequencies, polarization...  Tools for radio data (Jy/beam, 3+D cubes...)  Authentication  Expand data products/services available  Robustness  Visibility data, spectra, time series  Single-dish data  Image cutouts for Deep Fields  Solve queuing/overload and other problems  Impliment at other sites/other radio datasets

AstroGrid/RadioNet workshop  Radio data management Dec– Dec  Workshop for data providers/large surveys etc. Data flow using archives and pipelines  ParselTongue, Common Proposal Tool etc. Archive management Data delivery  Publishing data to VOs  Use and development of VO tools & standards  Science use Dec – Dec