Radio Astronomy Data Model for Single-Dish Multiple-Feed Telescopes, and Robledo Archive Architecture

摘要

All the effort that the astrophysical community has put into the developmentof the Virtual Observatory (VO) has surpassed the non-return point: the VO is areality today, and an initiative that will self-sustain, and to which allarchival projects must adhere. We have started the design of the scientificarchive for the DSS-63 70-m antenna at NASA's DSN station in Robledo de Chavela(Madrid). Here we show how we can use all VO proposed data models to build aVO-compliant single-dish, multiple-feed, radio astronomical archive data model(RADAMS) suitable for the archival needs of the antenna. We also propose anexhaustive list of Universal Content Descriptors (UCDs) and FITS keywords forall relevant metadata. We will further refine this data model with theexperience that we will gain from that implementation.