High Energy Interest Group (HEIG) Page

Our first meeting at the May 2023 Interop in Bologna led to a informal group of High Energy project coordinating on topics related to IVOA support and usage. This page is meant to be a place to identify and build synergy among the projects.

Current Membership - email alias "HEIG"

• Ada Nebot - ada.nebot@astro.unistra.fr
• Andrea Bulgarelli - andrea.bulgarelli@inaf.it
• Catherine Boisson - catherine.boisson@obspm.fr
• Fabian Schussler - Fabian.schussler@cea.fr
• Francois Bonnarel - francois.bonnarel@astro.unistra.fr
• Ian Evans - ievans@cfa.harvard.edu
• Janet Evans - janet@cfa.harvard.edu
• Jutta Schinabel - jutta.schnabel@fau.de
• Mark Cressitello Dittmar - mdittmar@cfa.harvard.edu
• Mathieu Servillat - mathieu.servillat@obspm.fr
• Mireille Louys - mireille.louys@unistra.fr
• Pierre Cristofari - pierre.cristofari@obspm.fr
• Raffaele D'Abrusco - rdabrusc@cfa.harvard.edu
• Rafael Martinez Galarza - juan.martinez.galarza@cfa.harvard.edu
• Bruno Khélifi - khelifi@in2p3.fr
• Karl Kosack - karl.kosack at cta-observatory.org
• Matthias Fuessling - matthias.fuessling@cta-observatory.org
• Tess Jaffe - tess.jaffe@nasa.gov

Project Links

• Chandra Science - https://chandra.harvard.edu/index_scientists.html
• Data formats for gamma-ray astronomy - https://gamma-astro-data-formats.readthedocs.io
• Very-high-energy Open Data Format (under construction) - https://vodf.readthedocs.io

Related workshops and presentations

• 2023-09-14: Overview of the Dataset/Cube data models and their applicability to High Energy datasets.
  • Slides & Mtg Notes
• 2023-06-28: IVOA standards for High Energy Astrophysics (French VO Workshop)
  • https://indico.obspm.fr/event/1963/
• 2023-05-11: Presentation at Interop, "DM for High Energy astrophysics", M. Servillat
  • https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IntropMay3023DM/2023-05-11_IVOA_meeting_-_VOHE.pdf
• 2022-10-11: Virtual Observatory and High Energy Astrophysics (French VO Workshop),
  • https://indico.obspm.fr/event/1489/

Event list formats for your project & Good time interval information

List the event list & GTI format for your data

• Chandra Data Descriptions - Event list, GTI

Whether an Obscore extension for High Energy data should be considered

Current issues associated with Obscore for your project; What Keywords do you propose??

Outline use cases to provide examples of interoperability issues

Use cases that are provide examples of issues ...

Misc Links