vocabulary

[Frederic V. Hessman]

Dear everybody,

It would be very helpful for you to look at the updated IAU thesaurus  
vocabulary list to see how many things are missing that are  
particularly needed for VOEvent.

		http://www.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~hessman/rdf/

I've tried to make this as painless as possible (e.g. all of the  
tokens in the dictionary are interlinked, so it's easy to click along  
various ontological paths), but the bottom line is identifying what  
already exists and what doesn't.

As examples of "eventful" things which are already present (plus my  
remarks in parentheses), you'll find (this is not a complete list)...

	accretion
	accretion_disks					(also accretion_discs!)
	active_galactic_nuclei			(also "AGN")
	active_galaxies
	active_stars
	active_Sun
	afterglow
	all-sky_cameras
	aperiodic_comets
	artificial_satellites
	asteroids
	automated_telescopes
	automatic_patrol_telescopes
	black_holes
	blazars
	bursters
	bursts
	collapse
	collapsed_objects
	collasping_stars
	collisions
	comets
	cosmic_ray_showers
	cosmic_ray_sources
	discoveries
	disintegration
	disruption
	dissipation
	earthquakes						(well, why not?)
	eclipses
	eclipsing_binary_stars
	encounters
	ephemeral_active_regions
	eruptive_stars
	eruptions
	exchange_of_mass
	explosions
	explosive_variable_stars
	fast_novae
	fireballs
	flare_stars
	flares
	flash_stars						(?)
	gamma-ray_bursts				(also "GRB")
	gravitational_waves
	hypernovae
	interacting_binary_stars
	interactions
	Julian_Date
	Kuiper_belt_objects
	locations_behind
	locations_between
	locations_in_front
	magnetic_storms
	masers
	mass_ejection
	mass_exchange
	mass_flow
	mass-loss
	mass-transfer
	maxima
	megamasers
	mergers
	meteor_showers
	meteors
	minima
	moonquakes						(well, one of these days,....)
	near-Earth_asteroids
	neutrinos
	newtron_stars
	non-thermal_radiation
	non-thermal_sources
	novae
	occultations
	optical_bursts						(GRB et al.)
	optical_flares
	optical_outbursts
	origin
	outbursts
	outgassing
	particle_beams
	particle_productions
	peculiar_object
	periodic_comets
	planetesimals
	pulsars
	quasars
	radio_bursts
	radio_flares
	rapid_bursts
	rapid_oscillations
	signal-to-noise_ratio
	solar_storms
	space_debris
	spectral_resolution
	starspots
	supernovae
	thermal_radiation
	transits
	Type_Ia_supernovae
	Type_Ib_supernovae
	Type_Ic_supernovae
	Type_II_supernovae
	variable_sources
	variable_stars
	volcanoes
	water_masers
	white_dwarf_stars
	X-ray_bursts
	X-ray_flares
	X-ray_novae
	X-ray_sources
	X-ray_transients

plus lots of detailed variable object designations (e.g.  
"cataclysmic_variable_stars", "Cepheids", "BL_Lacertae_objects") and  
misc other stuff like "Johnson_photometry", "I_magnitude", and  
various instrumental words etc.

Stuff notably missing are GRB minutiae (slow versus fast,  
orphans,....) - how about some suggestions?

"Enjoy"!

Rick

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Dr. Frederic V. Hessman     Hessman at Astro.physik.Uni-Goettingen.DE
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