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Sample VOEvent for Skyalert

The example below is a typical VOEvent. If you would like to construct your own, with your own information, please look carefully, especially the yellow boxes. The XML version is available here.

Please be sure to mouse-over the yellow highlights as these have instructive text.


<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<voe:VOEvent
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOEvent/v2.0 http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOEvent/VOEvent-v2.0.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:voe="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOEvent/v2.0" version="2.0"
role="observation"
ivorn="ivo://normandy.edu/events/supernovae#E4654"
>
<Who>
  <Author>
    <title>Banana Supernova Search</title>
    <contactName>William the Conqueror</contactName>
    <contactEmail>william@normandy.edu</contactEmail>
  </Author>
  <Date>2008-10-24T08:58:12</Date>
</Who>

<WhereWhen>
<ObsDataLocation>
  <ObservatoryLocation id="TOPOCEN"/>
  <ObservationLocation>
  <AstroCoordSystem id="UTC-FK5-TOPO"/>
  <AstroCoords coord_system_id="UTC-FK5-TOPO">

  <Time unit="s"> <TimeInstant>
    <ISOTime>2008-10-24T08:51:38</ISOTime>
  </TimeInstant> </Time>

  <Position2D unit="deg">
    <Value2>
      <C1>268.248592</C1>
      <C2>-30.148056</C2>
    </Value2>
    <Error2Radius>0.01</Error2Radius>
  </Position2D>

</AstroCoords> </ObservationLocation> </ObsDataLocation>
</WhereWhen>

<What>
  <Param name="Run" value="B17069"/>
  <Param name="Field" value="gb4"/>
  <Param name="Filter" ucd="instr.filter" value="R"/>
  <Param name="Magnitude" ucd="phot.mag" value="19.54545" dataType="float">
    <Description>The magnitude of the supernova</Description>
  </Param>

  <Group name="Geometry">
    <Param name="Galactic_Lat" ucd="pos.galactic.lat" unit="degrees" value="34.273637" dataType="float"/>
    <Param name="Moon_Distance" ucd="pos.angDistance" unit="degrees" value="65.784632" dataType="float"/>
  </Group>

  <Group name="Links">
    <Param name="Event Info" ucd="meta.ref.url" value="http://normandy.edu/events/E4654/index.html"/>
    <Param name="Finder_jpg" ucd="meta.ref.url" value="http://normandy.edu/events/E4654/Finder.jpg"/>
  </Group>
</What>

<Citations>
  <EventIVORN cite="followup">ivo://normandy.edu/events/supernovae#E4653</EventIVORN>
</Citations>
</voe:VOEvent>