VOEvent participation

[Rob Seaman]

Hi Eric,

> Is there anything in the published literature about VOEvent?  I see  
> there is an evolving series of .pdfs posted on the website, but I'd  
> like to cite something from a journal for my NSF proposal, if  
> possible.  If not, I can point to the latest .pdf on the website.

I'm copying this to a couple of the VOEvent mailing lists to  
encourage other folks to chime in with additional references.  This  
is a useful activity for the VOEvent working group as well.  You say  
"published literature", not just refereed, so this would include  
ADASS and SPIE proceedings.  Here are a couple to start:

	Williams, R. D. and Seaman, R. 2006, "VOEvent: Information  
Infrastructure for Real-Time Astronomy", in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 351,  
ADASS XV, ed. C. Gabriel, C. Arviset, D. Ponz & E. Solano (San  
Francisco: ASP), 637.

	Seaman, R., & Warner, P. 2006, “VOEvent and Sky Transients in the  
NOAO Science Archive”, to appear in Observatory Operations, Proc.  
SPIE Vol. 6270.

Even a naive ADS query on "VOEvent" reveals five hits, including  
those two:

	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-basic_connect?qsearch=VOEvent

And there were at least a couple of VOEvent papers and a BoF at the  
recent ADASS XVI.  Of course, as befits a VO initiative there are  
numerous references to online proceedings from several rather  
interesting workshops, but paper still has a certain cachet.

Finally, note that the VOEvent is now a fully recognized IVOA  
Recommendation:

	http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/VOEvent.html

(Although the v1.11 document still says "proposed", the standard was  
officially blessed within the last few weeks.)

I would imagine that VOEvent packets themselves will be quoted in the  
refereed literature similarly to GCN alerts or CBAT telegrams.  I'd  
be delighted if someone could point to an early example of this in  
some SNe, GRB or ML science paper.  There may still be a bit of a  
lead time needed for the resulting research to take place since the  
various projects began closing the loop in earnest several months  
ago, however.

Rob
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> On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Rob Seaman wrote:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>>> George Djorgovski suggested I contact you regarding VOEvent  
>>> participation.  I work for the Catalina Sky Survey, a near-Earth  
>>> asteroid survey based at the University of Arizona's Lunar and  
>>> Planetary Laboratory.  I am in the process of applying for  
>>> funding to use the existing data set from CSS to search for  
>>> transient events in near-real time, and would like to know a  
>>> little more about VOEvent.
>>
>> You can start by clicking over to http://voevent.org.  I'd be  
>> happy to answer any questions you have after scanning through the  
>> VOEvent working group pages.  You might also be interested in  
>> attending the "Autonomous Astronomy" Birds-of-a-Feather session at  
>> the upcoming ADASS meeting at the La Paloma in Tucson (http:// 
>> www.adass.org:8080/Conferences/2006/Venue).  This will be covering  
>> a broader topic than VOEvent, per se, but the announcement of sky  
>> transient alerts is at the heart of the matter.
>>
>>> My goal for this project is to detect transients in near-real  
>>> time (either at the telescope, or the next morning at the  
>>> latest).  Upon detection, I'd like to announce the transients to  
>>> anyone who is interested in following them up, since Catalina has  
>>> neither the resources nor the expertise to study every transient  
>>> (though I am partnering with a few astronomers from Steward  
>>> Observatory who do have interest and expertise).
>>>
>>> Does this sound like a good match for VOEvent?
>>
>> Yes!  This sounds like a classic VOEvent application.
>>
>> Rob Seaman
>> NOAO
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