rtVO
[real-time Virtual Observatory]

A working group dedicated to growing an international messaging standard for the transmission of information in transient astronomy

Content

TALK Start Here with an OpenOffice Presentation by the Transient Group at the NVO summer school outlining the top level design of the Real Time VO service (with some basic prototypes) is available from Docs Directory .
HTML version is also available.

XML In version 0.1 of the VOTransient messaging protocol, there are 3 basic types:
DISCOVERY,CITATION ("follow-up"), and PLANNED-OBSERVATION. We have made example XML instances of discovery messages of a optical flash (from the ground) and a gamma-ray burst (from space). A draft XSD schema for the DISCOVERY message is here.

SOFTWARE A universally-adopted transient messaging system will bear the most fruit if there are Transient SkyNode Servers that ingest new messages and distribute them automatically (or by query) to dedicated listening agents (robotic telescopes, email of observers, etc.). To this end, we have implimented a basic Transient SkyNode Server based on Python and PostgreSQL. Grab the basic ingestService.py (doc) and run it on the computer with a working DiscoveryMessaging table in an RTVO database. You can get transients with an SQL query (through SOAP messaging) with the rtvoGet.py (doc) client and put new discoveries with the rtvoSend.py (doc) client. For now, you'll need to send a greatly paired-down discovery message such as this. You'll need to install SOAPpy for this software to work on your machine.

FOLKS The VO Transients working group is just starting up. So far, we count as members Josh Bloom (Berkeley/Harvard), Przmyslaw Wozniak (LANL), Roy Williams (Caltech), Chris Stoughton (Fermi Labs), and Matthew Graham (Caltech). If you would like to join the working group, please email 'workinggroup .at. rtvo dot net'.

FEEDBACK We want to know what you think. If your research involves astronomical transients in any way, please tell us what part of the VOTransient messaging protocol you like or would like to see change. Email us at 'feedback .at. rtvo doT net'

THANKS This working group was borne out of discussions at the NSF-funded NVO Summer School and conversations with Mark Galassi and Bob Rutledge during the fall of 2003.

Last modified: Fri Sep 17 13:24:00 EDT 2004

TALK	Start Here with an OpenOffice Presentation by the Transient Group at the NVO summer school outlining the top level design of the Real Time VO service (with some basic prototypes) is available from Docs Directory . HTML version is also available.
XML	In version 0.1 of the VOTransient messaging protocol, there are 3 basic types: DISCOVERY,CITATION ("follow-up"), and PLANNED-OBSERVATION. We have made example XML instances of discovery messages of a optical flash (from the ground) and a gamma-ray burst (from space). A draft XSD schema for the DISCOVERY message is here.
SOFTWARE	A universally-adopted transient messaging system will bear the most fruit if there are Transient SkyNode Servers that ingest new messages and distribute them automatically (or by query) to dedicated listening agents (robotic telescopes, email of observers, etc.). To this end, we have implimented a basic Transient SkyNode Server based on Python and PostgreSQL. Grab the basic ingestService.py (doc) and run it on the computer with a working DiscoveryMessaging table in an RTVO database. You can get transients with an SQL query (through SOAP messaging) with the rtvoGet.py (doc) client and put new discoveries with the rtvoSend.py (doc) client. For now, you'll need to send a greatly paired-down discovery message such as this. You'll need to install SOAPpy for this software to work on your machine.
FOLKS	The VO Transients working group is just starting up. So far, we count as members Josh Bloom (Berkeley/Harvard), Przmyslaw Wozniak (LANL), Roy Williams (Caltech), Chris Stoughton (Fermi Labs), and Matthew Graham (Caltech). If you would like to join the working group, please email 'workinggroup .at. rtvo dot net'.
FEEDBACK	We want to know what you think. If your research involves astronomical transients in any way, please tell us what part of the VOTransient messaging protocol you like or would like to see change. Email us at 'feedback .at. rtvo doT net'
THANKS	This working group was borne out of discussions at the NSF-funded NVO Summer School and conversations with Mark Galassi and Bob Rutledge during the fall of 2003.