VOEvent priorities

[Andy Becker]

Hi - At least for LSST, I could envision us publishing in the event the photometry from our 2 
back-to-back exposures.  If you ascribe to the zero-one-infinity rule of thumb, this calls for some 
sort of time series to represent these N>1 blocks of information.

Andy

Andrew Drake wrote:
> 
> 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