VOEvent priorities

[Joshua Bloom]

My understanding is that LSST is signed up to use whatever VO tools exist at the time that they get going. So if there is an IVOA timeseries standard (either standalone or embedded) I expect it will be one of the conduits for them to publish their timeseries.  Obviously this wouldn't preclude them from publishing in other ways.

We've got some AAVSO, CSS, Hipparcos, light curves in an internal data model as part of dotastro.org. Once the simple timeseries discussion settles down a bit, John will be able to emit those data in this format.

Josh

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On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:34 PM, 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
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