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October 2002
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Young/NVO-Codata
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Discoveries
When and
where are discoveries made?
Always at the
edges and boundaries
Going deeper,
using more wavelength bands
Physicists make many measurements and discard most; Astronomers make many measurements and find discovery in
their entirety and combination
Metcalfes
law
Utility of computer networks grows as the
number of possible connections: O(N2)
number of possible connections: O(N2)
VO:
Federation of N archives
Possibilities
for new discoveries grow as O(N2)
Current sky
surveys have proven this
Very early
discoveries from SDSS, 2MASS, DPOSS