VOEvent priorities

[Kirk D Borne]

I do not believe that LSST has made any decision
regarding what they will put into VOEvent packets,
particularly with regard to time series (of source fluxes
or of positions), especially since the flood of LSST events 
won't even start for at least half a decade from now.

- Kirk


----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Drake <ajd at cacr.caltech.edu>
Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010 5:34 pm
Subject: Re: VOEvent priorities
> 
> 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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