VOEvent 1.1 new draft with STC elaboration
Rob Seaman
seaman at noao.edu
Mon May 8 10:39:38 PDT 2006
Excellent discussion. Suspect we lost some of the non-astronomers
along the way. Perhaps what we need (meaning what any pragmatic user
of STC would need) is an explanation of why one might choose the
different coordinate system options. This could include astronomical
usage scenarios and examples of converting between different
coordinate systems (and examples of when this might not make any
sense). Perhaps such a document already exists? If so, perhaps it
might be augmented with VOEvent related scenarios?
Scenario 1:
ESSENCE survey (http://www.ctio.noao.edu/wproject) is designed to
detect Type Ia extragalactic SNe. They wish to use VOEvent to convey
alerts resulting from these detections. The instrument is a CCD
array on a 4m class optical telescope in the southern hemisphere. A
reduction pipeline generates candidate SNe detections for review and
release by a human. What coordinate system is most appropriate both
for internal use by the ESSENCE team and for later followup by other
ground-based telescopes and spacecraft? Having received a packet
conveying such coordinates, what steps does a responding observatory
take to make best use of the transient alert for followup
spectroscopic observations?
Other scenarios?
Rob
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