The Hotwired Book

The Hotwired II workshop will result in a book, "Hot-wiring the Transient Universe", edited by Alasdair Allan, Rob Seaman, & Roy Williams. More than a proceedings, this volume will resemble the NVO Book in conveying several chapters on the diverse aspects of transient response astronomy. We are evaluating publishers.

The authors for these chapters will be drawn from the attendees of this and prior workshops, as well as the members of the IVOA VOEvent working group and the Heterogeneous Telescope Networks consortium. The editors are specifically interested in material which goes beyond a single survey or single use-case, material that can offer deeper insight and generality to the science, technology and practice of time domain astronomy.

Some likely chapter topics include:

• VOEvent 2.0 Specification
• Simple Event Access Protocol (SEAP)
• Transport of Celestial Transient Event Alerts
• Digital Signing Technologies in the Virtual Observatory
• Publishing VOEvent Streams
• Subscribing to VOEvent Streams
• VOEventNet Architecture
• Time Series in the Virtual Observatory
• Portfolios and VOEvent
• Use cases: Time Domain Surveys
• Use cases: Rapid Response Astronomy
• Target-of-opportunity Observing Modes
• Time Domain Semantics and Vocabularies
• VO-GCN, Lessons Learned
• Networking Robotic Telescopes

Your participation is crucial to the success of this enterprise!

Hotwired II attendees will receive a copy of the finished book.