Re: [Fwd: VOTimeSeries]

From: Raúl Gutiérrez Sánchez <raul-at-laeff.inta.es>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:42:11 +0200


Hello,

I would like to clarify the two aspects Francois is refering.

Francois Ochsenbein wrote:
>
> ==> in the TimeObs, the value is a number of days since TimeZero.
> The comment says that the value is an MJD value .
>

As said in the mail sent by Enrique, we developed the OMC SSAP service using the the SSAP protocol Version 0.91 and Spectrum Data Model Version 0.95. There were a big work interpreting the two documents and trying to produce a service consistent with them both. For the definition of the time frame, three of the fields were Frame.Time.Type, which definition is "Time type, always equal to MJD"; Frame.Time.Zero, which definition is "Zero point of timescale in MJD, default 0" and "Coverage.Location.Time.Value", which definition is "Midpoint of Exposure, on JD scale". In the image sent by Roy, there is no reference to the utype, but if you try the last URL Enrique sent, you will get the actual VOTable the system returns, where: TimeObs = Coverage.Location.Time.Value
TimeZero = Frame.Time.Zero = 51544.0

I am not an astronomer, but my understanding was that once specified the Zero point, every time would be added automatically to this zero point to obtain the corresponding MJD, if it is not the case, please, make me know and I will correct it. Or maybe the problem is just with the comment where, maybe, would be better to say "IJD" or "JD" instead of "MJD"...
> ==> in the VOTable, the unit part of the Time field specifies that
> the units are 's' (seconds). But the data values (1305.65557 etc)
> are most likely days elapsed since TimeZero.

You are right, I have already corrected this.Thanks

Raúl

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