IVOA and ADASS?

[Andrew Drake]

Hi Roy,

Let's not limit this to lightcurves.
Astrometric timeseries is going to be important
to the major event generators.

Also, although some of may disagree, I think an
event is really part of a timeseries not the
other way around.

-Andrew

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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Roy Williams wrote:

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> Joshua Bloom wrote:
>>  I'd really like to see a BoF on Timeseries. 
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> Josh --
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> Can I wave the flag of simplicity?
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> (1) Any chance we can reduce the scope in the hopes of simplicity and 
> efficiency? What I mean is to call it specifically "Light Curve" in place of 
> the general "Time Series". The former we understand well (magnitudes and 
> Janskys), but the latter could easily get out of control, and start to 
> include time series of tensorial fiber bundle functors and things like that.
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> (2) On the matter of "time", can we also reduce scope? Can we agree on a 
> single system like Julian Day? If we need to generalize to Ganymedian 
> siderial time, then we are lost. (IMHO).
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> Roy
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