OGLE Event Timeline

[Andrew Drake]

Hi Alasdair,

A while back I asked you whether you would be sending out VOEvents for
OGLE's microlensing anomaly alerts. These are probably the most important 
microlensing alerts to send as VOEvents as they are the most time critical.
Has any progress been made toward distributing these as VOEvents?
As these alerts are already emailed by OGLE to an open list of subscribers 
it should be possible to create VOEvents for these by processing the alert 
emails.

I think the columns for OGLE events should be displayed with the same kind 
of information as the OGLE alert page. That is, the fit values for the
baseline magnitude, timescale, time and value of peak magnification as 
well as the RA and Dec. The field, star number, and alert time seem of 
lower importance. I agree with Josh that it would be good to see the 
anomaly events marked different on the top display and perhaps in the 
table.


cheers,
       Andrew

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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Alasdair Allan wrote:
> I've been experimenting with various ways to display event data and thought 
> the following might interest people,
>
> http://vo.astro.ex.ac.uk/ogle/cgi-bin/timeline.cgi
>
> although be warned, the page is fairly javascript heavy so might take a while 
> to load the first time round.
>
> At the top of the page is an event timeline, there are two independently 
> scrollable bars (the upper in days, the lower in months), you can click and 
> drag the timeline to show previous events. The view of the top scrollable 
> area is represented by a light grey box on the bottom (month view) area. 
> Until you get a feel for the interface you might want to just drag around the 
> top bar as things will move slower (days, rather than months).
>
> Each event is represented by a marker, and clicking on the marker will bring 
> up additional data and links for that event (in the month view the marker is 
> represented by a small blue bar rather than a discrete data point).
>
> The OGLE event data is also displayed normally in table form below the 
> timeline interface.
>
> Comments?
>
> Al.
>

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