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From: Frederic V. \ <Hessman-at-Astro.physik.Uni-Goettingen.DE>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 13:23:44 +0200


Again, because of VOEvent and RTML, I'd like to suggest we include at least

	event				(physical or observational event)
	event.burst			("sudden" observed change in state)
	event.chirp			(continuous change in frequency)
	event.discovery		(discovery of previously unknown object)
	event.eclipse			(intrinsic eclipse of physically related objects)
	event.eruption			("sudden" physical change in state resulting in  
more/less observed emission)
	event.explosion		(physical explosion)
	event.glitch			(discontinuous change in frequency)
	event.occulation		(extrinsic occulation of physically unrelated  
objects)
	event.variation			(variation in some observable property)
	event.variation.phot		(photometric variation)
	event.variation.pos		(astrometric shift in position)
	event.variation.spect	(spectroscopic variation)

If we're going to have solar system UCD's, then it's only fair to have stellar and
extragalactic ones: I suggest looking at

        http://monet.uni-sw.gwdg.de/twiki/bin/view/VOEvent/ UnifiedContentDescriptors

were there are unit UCD's like "stars", "ism", "galaxy" (as in milky way), "galaxies", and "cosmology".
Yes, we don't have to adopt ALL of them, but it would help to have the basic ones.

Rick



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Received on 2005-05-30Z11:40:07