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VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY: "Plate Content Digitization, Archive Mining and Image Sequence Processing"
April 27-30, 2005
Auspices of COST Actoin 283: "Computational and information infrastructure in the Astronomical DataGrid"
Sofia, Bulgaria

Organizers
Milcho Tsvetkov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, and Valeri Golev, Sofia University, Department of Astronomy

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Astrophysics with Astronomical Archival Plates
by
Rene Hudec
Astronomical Institute Ondrejov

I present and discuss some examples of astrophysical projects based on the use of astronomical archival plates. Even the recent astrophysical satellite projects such as the ESA INTEGRAL can benefit from the analyses on the plates which can add valuable data for physical understanding of objects observed by INTEGRAL (such as blazars and cataclysmic variables). These studies can also help to follow and/or predict the active states of the targets and hence help to trigger the observations by the satellite. Related aspects such as the importance of digitised plates for the Virtual Observatory will be also addressed.

Date received: February 23, 2005

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