VOEvent Session at the Dec 2010 Interop Meeting

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VOEvent Session: Celestial Transient Event Alerting

Matthew Graham will be chairing VOEvent discussions in Nara. This session will consist of a status update delivered by Matthew, followed by an open discussion on any related topic, such as:

• Time series
• Simple Event Access Protocol
• VOEvent v2.0
• VOEvent transport protocols, brokers, etc.
• Surveys generating transient alerts (eg, LSST, LOFAR, LIGO, ...)
• Robotic telescope networks responding to alerts
• Classification of celestial phenomena (especially time varying)
• Vocabularies for the time domain

See Matthew if you have slides to present.

Recent activities of the VOEvent Working Group since the Victoria Interop in May 2010:

• Roy Williams has been confirmed as Vice Chair

• • Many thanks to Alasdair Allan, the former Vice Chair

• A working draft of VOEvent v2.0 was released in September

• • A revision is in progress, responding to comments to date. Further comment would strengthen the draft!

• Roy and Rob Seaman hosted a very successful tutorial, Techniques for time domain astronomy at the Boston ADASS

• Hot-wiring the Transient Universe, a book authored by several members of the WG, was published with about 300 copies distributed to date

• Informal discussions pertaining to IAU telegrams are in progress.