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The Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO) Huairou Solar Observating Station National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Ganghua Lin Outline What is VSO Why is VSO Related Projects VSO’s initial Components Querying methods----before,now Meaning for Us to Join VSO Our basis Arckitecture of CVSO Related Web sites What is VSO? The VSO is a new tool for investigating the physics of the Sun and its impact on the Earth environment. It would provide users with a common interface to an integrated system of distributed data archives (both space- and ground-based) and analysis systems, thereby enabling data exploration and accelerating the scientific process. The VSO will address one of the central challenges Of solar research: the need to locate, correlate, absorb, and analyze data from a wide array Of scientific instruments that measure the Sun on spatial and temporal scales that range over seven orders of magnitude. What is VSO? This observatory is “virtual” because it exists only in the form of masses of information stored in computer systems. Why Is VSO The Sun exhibits complex phenomena, such as flares, that pose important challenges to our understanding of the universe, Solar structure varies on time scales from microseconds to decades and on horizontal and vertical spatial scales ranging from 10 to 106 km. Why VSO Understanding solar structure, and ultimately predicting solar behavior, requires the correlation of many types of observations. These observations, which cover the entire electro magnetic spectrum as well as energetic particles, cannot be obtained with any single instrument or indeed at any single observatory. Thus, the data are stored in a myriad of locations, in dozens of formats, and analyzed by numerous applications. Why VSO A researcher who wishes to combine several data sets faces the tasks of finding t