VOEvent2.1 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments

Summary

VOEvent 2.1 defines the content and meaning of a standard information packet for representing, transmitting, publishing and archiving information about a transient celestial event, with the implication that timely follow-up is of interest. The objective is to motivate the observation of targets-of-opportunity, to drive robotic telescopes, to trigger archive searches, and to alert the community. VOEvent is focused on the reporting of photon events, but events mediated by disparate phenomena such as neutrinos, gravitational waves, and solar or atmospheric particle bursts may also be reported.

Proposed Recommendations (PRs) for VOEvent 2.1 can be found at:

• 2024-05-22: last PR

Changes since 2.0

This document describes an update to the IVOA VOEvent recommendation for the representation of solar system events. It has been developed by the Solar System and Time Domain Interest Groups. Details of changes from v2.0 are described in the document.

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Comments from the IVOA Community during RFC/TCG review period: 2024-09-15 - 2024-10-31

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