The Astrophysical Virtual Observatories (AVOs) have been
created in a number of countries using their available databases and current observing
material as a collection of interoperating data archives and software tools to
form a research environment in which complex research programs can be
conducted. Among all these data, a large spectroscopic database for all objects
will be especially useful. The Armenian
Virtual Observatory (ArVO) has being created to utilize the Digitized First Byurakan Survey (DFBS)
as an appropriate spectroscopic database.
In
frame of the ArVO, BAO collaborates with the Institute of Information
Technologies (IIT) of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences to develop
software for ArVO corresponding to the IVOA standards.
Beside the DFBS, ArVO is being complemented by the Digitized
Second Byurakan Survey (SBS) database,
the Byurakan photographic archive, and the Byurakan Observatory 2.6m telescope
observations, and will be a part of the International
Virtual Observatories Alliance (IVOA).
The DFBS database has to be used together with other
available data on the Internet, which are being accessed through AVOs. The ArVO
project includes the creation of a database of digitized FBS spectra and its
integration in AVOs, creation of a user interface with a full access to all
DFBS data as well as all existing data from other databases. DFBS may be a
major contribution to AVOs, giving full access to its data by the astronomical
community, including the possibility of preliminary classification of any
<18m object for further study, and the possibility of selecting
objects of needed types from the DFBS. A quick optical identification of radio,
IR or X-ray sources will be possible by plotting their positions on the DFBS
plate and matching all available data. For this, an automatic identification
procedure for non-optical sources will be worked out allowing identification
for ~100,000 sources. An automatic search
for new bright AGN in DFBS and a complete sample of V<17.5m
AGN over 10,000 deg2 area are one of the main ArVO tasks as
well.