Add RAVEN fields to VOEvent
RAVEN is being approved to send alerts, so we need to add some additional fields to the existing VOEvent to properly communicate with astronomers. These fields are described in Description of feature requestemfollow/userguide!65 (closed). There are seven additional fields.
External GCN Notice ID
, External Alert Type
, and External Search
are essential and should be required. Time and Sky Position Coincidence FAR
, Combined Sky Map
, and Time Difference
are optional and should be included only if the values are available. Time Coincidence FAR
needs to be included if the search field of the external event is GRB
or SubGRB
, but not if the search is SNEWS
since that value won't be calculated in that case. If that isn't possible then Time Coincidence FAR
could be made optional in general. Note that if Time and Sky Position Coincidence FAR
is available, Time Coincidence FAR
will alway be available as well.
I can't see any default values that could be set that wouldn't cause confusion.
Use cases
This template should be used whenever we are creating a VOEvent and EM_COINC
is present in the superevent's labels.