Re: a few more heliocentric coordinate systems

I am considering incorporating the ones noted below into STC (GEO, MAG, GSE, GSM, SM, HGC, HEE, HEEQ, HCI, HCD); in the current version that is almost trivial.
There is a similar effort underway in the FITS community, led by Bill Thompson.

I would be reluctant to include GEI and HAE, since they already exist as ICRS and ECLIPTIC, and Solar Rotations since it's just a measure of time. I could not find references for Geodetic and GeocentricSolarEquatorial in Fraenz & Harper. Sperical and Cartesian are coordinate "flavors", a concept that is orthogonal to that of a coordinate reference frame.

In addition, I would be inclined to include the planetocentric coordinate frames for Mercury, Venus, Mars, JupiterIII, SaturnIII, UranusIII, Neptune, and Pluto as defined by the ephemeris in Table 6 of Fraenz and Harper (2002, Plan & Sp Sci. 50, 217), with GEI(J2000) interpreted as ICRS.

Cheers,

• Arnold

Elizabeth Auden wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Chris Perry has brought to my attention some additional heliocentric
> coordinate systems that should also be included in a solar metadata
> extension to VODataService:
>
> (From
> http://www.space-plasma.qmw.ac.uk/heliocoords/systems2art/node8.html):
>
> 1. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/Spherical
This is a coordinate "flavor", not a coordinate reference frame.
> 2. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/Cartesian
This is a coordinate "flavor", not a coordinate reference frame.
> 3. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/GeocentricEquatorialInertial
This is already provided as "ICRS"
> 4. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/Geographic
GEO
> 5. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/Geodetic
?
> 6. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/Geomagnetic
MAG
> 7. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/GeocentricSolarEcliptic
GSE
> 8. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/GeocentricSolarEquatorial
?
> 9. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/GeocentricSolarMagnetospheric
GSM
> 10. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/SolarMagnetic
SM
>
> 11. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/Heliographic
HGC
> 12. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/SolarRotations
This is really a measure of time, if I understand it correctly
> 13. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/HeliocentricEarthEcliptic
HEE
> 14. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/HeliocentricEartEquatorial
HEEQ
> 15. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/HeliocentricInertial
HCI
> 16. /Coverage/Spatial/CoordFrameType/HeliocentricOfDate
HCD
>
> Please let me know if you can advise other solar / STP coordinate systems
> that should be included in a schema extension.
>
> cheers,
> Elizabeth
>

Arnold H. Rots                                Chandra X-ray Science Center
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