diff --git a/VEP-018.txt b/VEP-018.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..763df63 --- /dev/null +++ b/VEP-018.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Vocabulary: http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/product-type +Author: Mireille Louys for HEIG IG +Date: 2025-04-24 + +New Term: event-bundle +Action: Addition +Label: Event list with associated calibration files +Description: A data product type that agregates an event-list data product +to other files that describe instrumental response functions for calibration and analysis. +This is can be implemented as an archive file or other compressed formats. +Relationships: is related to the event-list data product type + +Used-in: The distribution of event-list data in multi-messenger astronomy. +For example, Chandra primary products distributed via the Chandra +Data Archive include around half a dozen different types of products neces- +sary to analyse Chandra data (for example, L2 event-list, Aspect solution, +bad pixel map, spacecraft ephemeris, V&V Report). +For VHE gamma rays and neutrinos, the DL3 event-lists should manda- +torily be associated to their associated IRFs files. The links between the +event-list and these IRFs should be well defined in the event-bundle. + +Rationale: +Event-list data products distributed by High Energy surveys +need additionnal information to be calibrated and analysed. +Instrumental and observations functions must be available together +with the data in order to interpret the event-list content. + +Reference: +- IVOA Note Virtual Observatory and High Energy Astrophysics Version 1.0 +https://ivoa.net/documents/Notes/VOHE/20241112/VOHE-Note-draft_1.0.pdf