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Ask to include VESPA related tools in IVOA Application lists:
| SE | helpdesk for this page (ivoadoc@ivoa.net) & Pierre Fernique for this page | Advertise VESPA developments | |
Applications
| PLS | Mark Taylor and Thomas Bochs Markus | 2019: DaCHS geojson output to be fixed. Requires definition of std coord frame IDs for solid bodies… | |
UCDs and Utypes for Solar System
| SE | Mireille Louys | required to support experimental work, but also observations | Discussed in May 2018 (Victoria interop) for inclusion. |
| BC | |||
Spectroscopy
| SE | this is addressed in SDM2, TBC | ||
ADQL additions
| SE | Support of UCDs in measurement_type in particular, but also instrument names, etc | ||
| PLS | François Bonnarel, Dave Morris, Markus Demleitner | RegTAP functions have been reviewed by TCG, included “ivo_” functions. We can refer to that in EPN-TAP service specification. It is a function to implement on server-side, by data provider. It exist already in DaCHS, it seems to be easy to implement with Gregory Mantelet’s library. | |
Tools / standards:
| SE SE | J-M Glorian? | OK with dedicated script in CASSIS, to be made more generic | |
| M. Taylor | - cross-match of footprints supported via TAP, fixed in DaCHS (early 2019) - Healpix maps now consistent with Aladin equivalent (early 2019) | ||
| SE | Pierre Fernique | All those fixed in v10. However open issues are shown on Aladin pages in Confluence | |
Fits format:
| SE / Chiara Marmo | ? - IAU fits commission? | Support planetary mapping & surface feature catalogues | 2019: Now included in GDAL fits driver (TBC) |
STC, etc:
| SE | Markus Demleitner, Dave Morris | Support body fixed frames, consistency with IAU conventions | new version of TAP (v1.1) removes reference frame in box, circle, polygon. Client must do the query correctly, interpreting the TAP service coordinate frame (default is ICRS) |
| John Swinbank | |||
TCG discussion
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VOEvent:
| BC | John Swinbank |
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It would be very important to be able to specify if one wants to search for model outputs, experimental data or observations. Right now it is not possible to specify it, and if used blindly it can be very confusing!
| Review board
| Use ;meta.modelled in nEPN-TAP services when required |
2019
Action | from | to | purpose | status / answer |
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Check here for recent discussions (mostly the first one which addresses these questions): | ||||
Coordinates:
| SE | Not needed | ||
Maps: | SE | IVOA semantics | Also required to introduce projection parameters using various standards (Proj4…) | |
• UCD needed for VOevents | SE | IVOA semantics | ||
• Clarify usage of inf / -inf / Nan in ADQL (should apparently exist, as per DALI - but do not) | SE | IVOA semantics / vocabularies | ||
• Correct/clarify definition of reflectance in 2018 RFM sheet: Radiance factor is the same as I/F; in this case, this is divided by input irradiance (not radiance), i.e. by solar flux.
In any case, this is not necessarily similar to albedo (which is typically integrated spectrally/in angular domain, and is then related to thermal equilibrium). I would keep albedo for more general purpose. | SE | IVOA semantics | ||
• Correct/clarify brdf in 2018 sheet: addQ | phys.reflectance.bidirectional.df| Bidirectional reflectance distribution function The UCD is very weird, would better be phys.reflectance.brdf (this is not a subset of .bidirectional) | SE | IVOA semantics | ||
• Suggestion for reflectance in 2018 RFM sheet, to be corrected: for normalized reflectance concept: proposal arith.ratio;phys.reflectance => Should be arith.factor;phys.reflectance | SE | IVOA semantics | ||
How do we handle hemispherically integrated quantities? | SE | IVOA semantics | reflectance / emission | |
posAng is commonly mistaken for a generic UCD for angles (which does not exist). Make definition more explicit (e.g., Free dictionary: thedirectioninwhichoneobjectliesrelativetoanotheronthecelestialsphere,measuredindegrees fromnorthinaneasterlydirection) | IVOA semantics | |||
Section 8, 2 (about pos): "the angular size of an object is in this section, its linear size is in the phys section)" But we have phys.angSize (with an unclear definition) )- should be in pos? | SE | IVOA semantics | ||
On the same token, phys.angVeloc would look more consistent than phys.veloc.ang | SE | IVOA semantics | ||
Additional set of UCDs for spectroscopy. In particular, a category phys.scattering seems required, see here + arithm.ang could do for angular distributions | SE | IVOA semantics | ||
How do we handle asymmetric error bars? Some services need to have stat.error.min/max Required by some services | SE | — | use stat.error;stat.min stat.error;stat.max | |
How do we specify an additive constant or offset? The only close match is arith.zp, which is context specific (for magnitude scales) | SE | IVOA semantics | At least enlarge the definition to any type of offset / additive constant | |
Add JSON output to TAP standard? | SE | must be faster than VOtable (critical in the VESPA portal) | ||
SAMP only pass passes the first table resource of a VOtable, seems to be in the standard - although TOPCAT can actually open all tables when provided directly. Why that? | SE | Mark Taylor | This is a problem to send VizieR catalogues from VESPA portal (but also from TAPhandle). | Mark's answer: Done on purpose. The solution is to send table resources one by one from the interface ./ client |
• All the above UCD comments transmitted to IVOA semantics in Oct 2019