VOEvent priorities

[Andrew Drake]

Hi Rob,

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Rob Seaman wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Andrew Drake wrote:
>> Your comment above seemed clear, "astronomers often include time series in their "telegrams"".
> That also includes people on this group.  LSST is only one of the upcoming projects that - in effect - will be taking movies of the sky.  Those movies will often be expressed as simple time series of some object or another.

I wasn't aware that LSST had agreed to use this particular representation 
of a simple time series. If they do want to include their full time series
within events, rather than simply link to it, we should certainly ponder 
how this amount data can be handled within the VOEvent network.

>> Based on Roy's limited results I would think that this is not often the case. Rather, even
>> though it is possible to include time series in ATels, it is uncommon.
>
> There are many kinds of telegrams: http://bit.ly/a7tpoL

There certainly are still sources of VOEvents to tap. Even though
most of the sources on this slide do not issue telegrams or VOEvents,
and a couple have long since closed shop, including time series would
certainly be useful if attracts a few more groups to use VOEvents.
Even though most groups create links to their time series data, the
amateur astronomers often do include small pieces of time series
data in their emails to VSNET and AAVSO.

cheers,
        Andrew
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