SSA-1.1

[Petr Skoda]

Sorry for delay - I was swamped in preparing grant application ...

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Juande Santander Vela wrote:

> either for this use case. I think these potential SSA archives, where RA 
> and Dec information is not present, should be tried like theoretical SSA 
> services, and be queried on reduced parameters, such as spectral type, 
> metallicity, age, mass, etc.

I am afraid this is a little confusion - it is not problem of whole 
archive not providing coordinates - but in normal spectroscopic archive
(especially of high resolution high-precision spectrograph like 
ELODIE/SOPHIE HARPS ....) you want to publish spectra observed - but as it 
is spectrum of a potential exoplanet, you will be requested to omit 
coordinates (highly confident - before more publications about the planet)
and/or time information in case of photometry  transit curve - which 
allows you to estimate the period.


All of this information should not be in header - then you may not use the 
POS queery and if you strictly adhere to SSA you, in fact, cannot publish 
such a spectrum. But if you allow TARGETNAME query, you may search for 
object (you know from articles what is the interesting star only by ID 
like KEPLER-XXXX or COROT-YYYY...)

Of coures it is a minority of cases in a normal archive but you are faced 
with problem how to publish through SSA the interesting spectrum of THAT 
EXOPLANET (harboring star)


And there is not information about age, mass etc as you suggest ..