VIM: Visual Integration & Mining

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VIM: Visual Integration and Mining

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VIM is a tool for researching multiple sky positions simultaneously. Each source becomes a row in a table, with catalog, image cutouts, and spectral information. This information is drawn from all the published surveys of the astronomical literature.

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VIM Documentation and Help:

Step-by-step guides to VIM

Example 1: Multiple Cutouts for Multiple Sources
Example 2: Which investigators used XMM to observe my favorite sources?
Example 3: Checking what photometry NED has for a set of sources
Example 4: Discover, take subset, Match against EUVE and ROSAT catalogs
Example 5: A color-color-color Plot from the Join of GSC and USNO-B
Example 6: NVO Inventory Services

Sample VIM Workbenches

6 Bright Galaxies and its script
90 Bright Arp galaxies and its script
51 Xray binaries and its script
148 matched SDSS and 2MASS and its script
47 rich Abell clusters and its script

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Installing & Scripting VIM

Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation
under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
The NVO is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

This NVO Application is hosted by Caltech

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