Transparent scientific usage as the key to success of the Virtual Observatory

摘要

Nowadays, Virtual Observatory standards, resources, and services becamepowerful enough to help astronomers making real science on everyday basis. Thekey to the VO success is its entire transparency for a scientific user. Thisallows an astronomer to combine "online" VO-enabled parts with "offline"research stages including dedicated data processing and analysis, observations,numerical simulations; and helps to overpass one of the major issues that mostpresent-day VO studies do not go further than data mining. Here we will presentthree VO-powered research projects combining VO and non-VO blocks, all of themresulted in peer-reviewed publications.