Hola,
We prototyped infrastructure and formats in support of the events described below during last year's "SNe season" down in Chile, and will enter production mode during the ESSENCE observing sessions this fall - live tests before ADASS. I might say that we have a meeting this week with the PS1/LSST MOPS team, too. NOAO DPP gratefully acknowledges the support of an NVO research initiative grant to enable this work.
Kudos (and other small flightless birds) to Phil Warner!
Rob
-- Begin forwarded message:Received on 2007-08-27Z17:55:16
> From: Michael Wood-Vasey <wmwood-vasey-at-cfa.harvard.edu>
> Date: August 27, 2007 7:57:25 AM MST
> Subject: VOEvents now produced and published through ESSENCE pipeline
>
> Dear ESSENCE and PS1 IPP Friends:
>
> The ESSENCE pipeline now can produce VOEvents (see attached file
> for an example) and submit them to the publisher. I have
> successfully used this in concert with the VOEvent Server/Client to
> publish a VOEvent for a 2006 SNeIa candidate. This was then
> received by two subscribing machines at Harvard.
>
> For those familiar with the ESSENCE pipeline, this is done just by
> invoking 'walerts.py' (our main candidate-processing program) with
> the '-voevent' ooption:
>
> walerts.py -event 311 -voevent
>
> or do all confirmed candidates with
>
> walerts.py -event confirmed -voevent
>
> Phil and I will verify and streamline this further this week and
> figure out how we want to keep track of state and decide when to
> send out VOEvents, but we have now have a working beta that goes
> all the way through from ESSENCE candidates to VOEvent alerts with
> one command.
>
> - Michael