diff --git a/VEP-25_response-function.txt b/VEP-25_response-function.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ed0d55a --- /dev/null +++ b/VEP-25_response-function.txt @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +Vocabulary: http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/response-type +Author: Mireille Louys for HEIG IG +Date: 2025-11-13 + +New Term: response-function +Action: Addition +Label: response-function +Description: +A data product type describing instrumental response functions for calibration and analysis. + +Relationships: response-function is a top level term. +Usually related to an event-list data product in high energy astrophysics. + +Used-in: Data sets made accessible via the Chandra CS2 catalog + +Rationale: +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. +---------- +New Term: Point Spread Function +Action: Addition +Label: psf +Description: A dataset that records the probability density function of +spatial/angular spreading of incident photons from a point source caused +by the instrument (detector and/or mirror and/or analysis) + +Relationships: narrower than #response-function + +Used-in: CTA example? + + +---------- +New Term: Effective Area +Action: Addition +Label: aeff +Description: A dataset that records the “effective area” of a telescope +and/or instrument. The effective area is the geometric area +of the telescope and/or instrument reduced by efficiency factors +such as reflectivity and vignetting, among other effects + +Relationships: narrower than #response-function +---------- +New Term: Ancillary Response File +Action: Addition +Label: arf +Description: A dataset that records the +combined telescope/instru- +ment effective area and +detector quantum efficiency as +a function of energy + +Relationships: narrower than #response-function + +Used-in: XMM data products ? + +---------- +New Term: Background Rate +Action: Addition +Label: bkgrate +Description: A dataset that models the rate of residual events that are +not from the expected source type (e.g. for gamma-ray instrument it +measures residual non-gamma-ray events coming. + +Relationships: narrower than #response-function + +---------- +New Term: Energy Dispersion +Action: Addition +Label: edisp +Description: A dataset that records the +probability density of detecting an event with an energy estimator given the true +energy of the event. + +Relationships: narrower than #response-function + +Used-in: HESS data products ? + +---------- +New Term: Redistribution Matrix File +Action: Addition +Label: rmf +Description: A dataset that records the probability density function +mapping from energy space into detector pulse height (or position) space + +Relationships: narrower than #response-function + +Used-in: Chandra response data products ? + +Reference: +- IVOA Note: https://github.com/ivoa/HighEnergyObsCoreExt section 5.1.5 +- IVOA Note Virtual Observatory and High Energy Astrophysics Version 1.0 +https://ivoa.net/documents/Notes/VOHE/20241112/VOHE-Note-draft_1.0.pdf \ No newline at end of file