VOTable Format Definition Version 1.4

Ochsenbein, Francois; Taylor, Mark; Donaldson, Tom; Williams, Roy G.; Davenhall, Clive; Demleitner, Markus; Durand, Daniel; Fernique, Pierre; Giaretta, David; Hanisch, R. J.; McGlynn, T. A.; Szalay, A. S.; Wicenec, Andreas

doi:10.5479/ads/bib/2019ivoa.spec.1021o

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“…The RMTable2023 standard is fully compatible with the VOTable format (Ochsenbein et al 2019), which allows both binary or text encoding and provides a mechanism for including additional metadata if desired.…”

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RMTable2023 and PolSpectra2023: Standards for Reporting Polarization and Faraday Rotation Measurements of Radio Sources

Eck¹,

Gaensler²,

Hutschenreuter³

et al. 2023

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Faraday rotation measures (RMs) have been used for many studies of cosmic magnetism, and in most cases having more RMs is beneficial for those studies. This has lead to the development of RM surveys that have produced large catalogs, as well as meta-catalogs collecting RMs from many different publications. However, it has been difficult to take full advantage of all of these RMs, as the individual catalogs have been published in many different places, and in many different formats. In addition, the polarization spectra used to determine these RMs are rarely published, limiting the ability to reanalyze data as new methods or additional observations become available. We propose a standard convention for RM catalogs, RMTable2023, and a standard for source-integrated polarized spectra of radio sources, PolSpectra2023. These standards are intended to maximize the value and utility of these data for researchers and to make them easier to access. To demonstrate the use of the RMTable2023 standard, we have produced a consolidated catalog of 55,819 RMs collected from 42 published catalogs.

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confidence: 99%

RMTable2023 and PolSpectra2023: Standards for Reporting Polarization and Faraday Rotation Measurements of Radio Sources

Eck¹,

Gaensler²,

Hutschenreuter³

et al. 2023

ApJS

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“…They define many standards allowing to build complex interoperable data infrastructures. For the purpose of catalogues and events, three standards are applicable: the VOTable (Virtual Observatory Table ) format (Ochsenbein et al, 2019), the VOEvent (Virtual Observatory Event) model (Seaman et al, 2011) and the STC (Space-Time Coordinate) model (Rots, 2007) astronomical catalogues and events, including time intervals, spectral ranges, spatial regions on the sky (most often using Right Ascension (RA) and Declination (Dec) coordinates). However, there is currently no way to build and share more detailed geometries mixing temporal and spectral coordinates using those tools.…”

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Time-frequency catalogue: JSON implementation and python library

Cecconi

Louis

Bonnin

et al. 2023

Front. Astron. Space Sci.

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TFCat (Time-Frequency Catalogue) is a data interchange format based on JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), which has been initially designed for exchanging low frequency radio events and features. It defines several types of JSON objects and how they are combined to represent data related to temporal-spectral features of a time spectrogram (a.k.a., dynamic spectrum), their properties, and their temporal and spectral extents. This implementation is inheriting from the GeoJSON file format. The TFCat python library is implementing this specification and provides a software interface permitting to create, update and validate TFCat objects efficiently.

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VOTable Format Definition Version 1.4

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RMTable2023 and PolSpectra2023: Standards for Reporting Polarization and Faraday Rotation Measurements of Radio Sources

RMTable2023 and PolSpectra2023: Standards for Reporting Polarization and Faraday Rotation Measurements of Radio Sources

Time-frequency catalogue: JSON implementation and python library

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