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From: Andrea Preite Martinez <andrea.preitemartinez-at-rm.iasf.cnr.it>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:47:55 +0100


Dear all,

I received from the IVOA Exec a request to modify all UCD1+ words that do not conform to what is said in the standard UCD document, i.e.:

  UCD1+ words at the same level in the hierarchy cannot be a starting substring of another

that is, we cannot have phot.flux and phot.fluxDens

As you know, the document at
http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/UCDlist.html is in the PR status, and will be moved to IVOA Recommendation after an appropriate action on the words concerned.

The rule mentioned above is violated for the following ucd1+ words:

E | phot.fluxDens               | Flux density (per wl/freq/energy interval)
E | phot.fluxDens.sb            | Flux density surface brightness
Q | phys.atmol                  | Atomic and molecular physics (shared 
properties)
Q | phys.atmol.branchingRatio   | Branching ratio
Q | phys.atmol.coll             | Related to collisions
Q | phys.atmol.configuration    | Configuration
Q | phys.atmol.crossSection     | Atomic / molecular cross-section
Q | phys.atmol.element          | Element
Q | phys.atmol.excitation       | Atomic molecular excitation parameter
Q | phys.atmol.final            | Quantity refers to atomic/molecular 
final/ground state, level, ecc.
Q | phys.atmol.initial          | Quantity refers to atomic/molecular 
initial state, level, ecc.
Q | phys.atmol.ion              | Ion
S | phys.atmol.ionization       | Related to ionization
S | phys.atmol.level            | Atomic level
Q | phys.atmol.lifetime         | Lifetime of a level
Q | phys.atmol.lineShift        | Line shifting coefficient
Q | phys.atmol.parity           | Parity
Q | phys.atmol.sweight          | Statistical weight
S | phys.atmol.trans            | Transition between states
Q | phys.energyDensity          | Energy-density
Q | phys.massToLight            | Mass to light ratio
Q | phys.massYield              | Mass yield

because of the already existing words

phot.flux
phys.at
phys.energy
phys.mass

In order to reach a rapid convergence on the reformulation of these words, I?m suggesting a possible solution for each of them in the list that follows:

    Present                       Suggested new
E | phot.fluxDens               | phot.flux.fluxDens  or: phot.flux.density
E | phot.fluxDens.sb            | phot.flux.fluxDens.sb  or: 
phot.flux.density.sb
Q | phys.atmol                  | suppress
Q | phys.atmol.branchingRatio   | phys.branchingRatio
Q | phys.atmol.coll             | phys.collision
Q | phys.atmol.configuration    | phys.state.configuration
Q | phys.atmol.crossSection     | phys.crossSection
Q | phys.atmol.element          | phys.element
Q | phys.atmol.excitation       | phys.excitation
Q | phys.atmol.final            | phys.state.final
Q | phys.atmol.initial          | phys.state.initial
Q | phys.atmol.ion              | phys.element.ion    S | 
phys.atmol.ionization       | phys.ionization
S | phys.atmol.level            | phys.level
Q | phys.atmol.lifetime         | phys.level.lifetime
Q | phys.atmol.lineShift        | phys.lineShift
Q | phys.atmol.parity           | phys.state.parity
Q | phys.atmol.sweight          | phys.state.sweight
S | phys.atmol.trans            | phys.state.trans   Q | 
phys.energyDensity          | phys.energy.density
Q | phys.massToLight            | phys.mass.light
Q | phys.massYield              | phys.mass.yield

The other possibility for the phys.atmol.xxx group is to suppress the word phys.at

Please let me know your opinion and/or your suggestions.

Andrea


Andrea Preite Martinez                  andrea.preitemartinez-at-rm.iasf.cnr.it
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