'Atomic and Molecular Data Services for Astrophysics - Open University Element'
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: Physical Sciences
Abstract
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Planned Impact
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Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Nigel Mason (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Albert D
(2020)
A Decade with VAMDC: Results and Ambitions
in Atoms
Dawes A
(2016)
Using the C-O stretch to unravel the nature of hydrogen bonding in low-temperature solid methanol-water condensates.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Marinkovic B
(2015)
Development of collisional data base for elementary processes of electron scattering by atoms and molecules
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Pavithraa S
(2017)
Qualitative observation of reversible phase change in astrochemical ethanethiol ices using infrared spectroscopy.
in Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
| Description | The Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) Consortium is a worldwide consortium which federates atomic and molecular databases through an e-science infrastructure and an organisation to support this activity. About 90% of the inter-connected databases handle data that are used for the interpretation of astronomical spectra and for modelling in many fields of astrophysics. Recently the VAMDC Consortium has connected databases from the radiation damage and the plasma communities, as well as promoting the publication of data from Indian institutes. This grant reviewed how the VAMDC Consortium (and particularly the UK members) are organised for the optimal distribution of atomic and molecular data for scientific research. Key outcomes were study of how to develop an international protocol for reporting of uncertainties in calculated data and the need to provide evaluation of data in proffered data bases for the user communities. The UK role and leadership in these areas was recognised and has been developed with the UK taking leading role in trwo subsequent data base projects RADAM ( atomic and molecular physics for Radiation damage and radiotherapy http://radamdb.mbnresearch.com) and VESPA on line data service for planetary science part of Europlanet a European research Infrastructure which I chair and currently UK leads http://www.europlanet-2020-ri.eu/ |
| Exploitation Route | VAMDC and its architecture is being used in wider EU programmes such as Europlanet http://www.europlanet-2020-ri.eu/ and its VESPA (planetary science) http://www.europlanet-vespa.eu/ and PSWS (space weather) http://planetaryspaceweather-europlanet.irap.omp.eu/ data series and the RADAM database for radiotherapy http://radamdb.mbnresearch.com/ |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Environment,Healthcare |
| URL | http://www.vamdc.eu/ |
| Description | This project is part of a wider programme to develop a database for Atomic and molecular physics , the VAMDC project (www.vamdc.eu) funded as part of EU FP7 programme. Under H2020 this is being further developed as part of the Europlanet research infrastructure http://www.europlanet-2020-ri.eu/ and since 2020 https://www.europlanet-society.org/europlanet-2024-ri. Access to databases are provided on line through the VAMDC portal and are used by industry (particularly plasma electronics) environmental community and through development of RADAM database the medical physics/radiotherapy community. Software development has been a significant part of the programme. Subsequently the database has been expanded for use with the radiotherapy and radiation chemistry community via the RADAM database http://radamdb.mbnresearch.com. VAMDC is now linked to the VEPSA data services infrastructure https://www.europlanet-society.org/europlanet-2024-ri/vespa/ as part of Europlanet which is a large EU funded research infrastructure that I chair http://www.europlanet-2020-ri.eu renewed as https://www.europlanet-society.org/europlanet-2024-ri/ |
| First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics,Environment,Healthcare,Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Economic |