Distribution Methods and Filtering Information by Notice Types


This table contains all the distribution format and filtering capabilities for all the Notice Types within GCN/TAN.
There is a row for each notice type.
The columns are grouped into 7 subsets of information:

The 4 left-most columns (NUMBER, NAME, STATUS, KIND) are the:
Num: the number of the notice type,
Type Name: the name of the notice type,
Status: is this notice type currently ACTIVE, defunct (ie discontinued), never was (or will be) produced by the instrument team, or currently being developed (in-work). There is a variation on "active" which is "T-Only" which means it is not available to the public, only to the approrpriate Instrument Team.
Ext-vs-Int: is this notice type available to the world (External) or only used Internally within the GCN/TAN program;
(for this public webpage display, the Internal packet types have been surpressed).

The next column (P) indicates the "position content" of the notice:
0: No RA,Dec location information in this notice type,
1: the RA,Dec fields contain the location of a GRB or Transient,
2: the RA,Dec fields contain the bore-sight pointing location of the instrument/spacecraft.

The next 10 columns (Distibution Methods) show which distribution methods/formats are available for that Notice Type.
S: binary packet socket,
x: XML VOEvent packet socket,
E: full-format Email method,
L: full-format Email method (the format is the same as 'E', only the spawning of the email is handled differently),
C: Cellphone/pager format email method,
s: Shorter cellphone/pager format email method,
s: Subject-line-only Cellphone/pager format email method,
s: Subject-line-only Cellphone/pager HH:MM:SS DD:mm:ss format email method,
X: XML VOEevent email format/method.
w: webpage archive method (this is "pull on demand").
For these 10 columns, a '1' means that method/format is available for that Notice Type (a '0' means not available).

The next 6 columns (Type-specific Filters) show which Filtering functions are available for that Notice Type.
T: Trigger_ID: Is the source object for this trigger really what the Type name indicates.
I: Intensity: Is the intensity of the detection above the threshold. Caution, the units and dynamic range are very type-specific.
S: Significance (signal to noise ratio [sigma]).
E: Error (size of location uncertainty).
D: Delay (time since detection observation).
C: Confidence of the identification (eg how confidence are we that this BAT_POS trigger for a real GRB? or something else?").
For these 6 columns, a '1' means that filtering function is available for that Notice Type (a '0' means not available).
For more information on the filtering functions and capabilities, click here.

The next 7 columns (Attachments) show which attachment formats (if any) are available for each Notice Type.
T: Text (plain text).
p: PS.
P: PDF.
G: GIF.
J: JPEG.
F: FITS.
X: XML, VOevent format.

The column (SN) shows if Simbad/NED (SN) search notices are available for that Notice Type.
For this column, a '1' means that Simbad/NED search is available for that Notice Type (a '0' means not available).

The last column (MISC) lists miscelaneous extra information/comments on that Notice Type.

Mail questions/suggestions/corrections/complaints to Scott Barthelmy.

Distribution Methods & Formats and Filtering Functions
NUMBER, NAME, STATUS, KIND P Distribution Methods Type-spec Filters Attachments SN MISC
NumTYPE MACRO_NAME STATUS Ext vs Int P SxELCsssXw T I S E D C T p P G J F X SN COMMENTS
1GRB_COORDS defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 110110 0000001 0 BATSE Trigger coords (the first GCN Notice Type)
2TEST_COORDS ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 010110 0000001 0 Test coords
3IM_ALIVE ACTIVE EXTERNAL 0 1100000000 000000 0000001 0 I'm alive socket packet every 60 sec
4KILL_SOCKET ACTIVE EXTERNAL 0 1100000000 000000 0000001 0 Kill a socket connection
11MAXBC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 110110 0000001 0 MAXC1/BC
21BRAD_COORDS defunct EXTERNAL 1 1100000010 000010 0000001 0 Special Test coords packet for BRADFORD
22GRB_FINAL defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 110110 0000001 0 Final BATSE coords
24HUNTS_SRC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 0 Huntsville LOCBURST GRB coords (HitL)
25ALEXIS_SRC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000110 0000001 0 ALEXIS Transient coords
26XTE_PCA_ALERT defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 000000 0000001 0 XTE-PCA ToO Observation Scheduled
27XTE_PCA_SRC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000110 0000001 0 XTE-PCA GRB coords
28XTE_ASM_ALERT never EXTERNAL 0 1111111110 000010 0000001 0 XTE-ASM Alert
29XTE_ASM_SRC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000110 0000001 0 XTE-ASM GRB coords
30COMPTEL_SRC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000010 0000001 1 COMPTEL GRB coords
31IPN_RAW ACTIVE EXTERNAL 2 1111111110 000010 0000001 0 IPN_RAW GRB annulus coords (position is center of Annulus)
32IPN_SEG defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111100 000010 0000001 0 IPN+POS GRB annulus seg (kind of a cheat to allow error filter)
33SAX_WFC_ALERT never EXTERNAL 0 1111111111 000010 0000001 0 SAX-WFC Alert
34SAX_WFC_SRC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 1 SAX-WFC GRB coords
35SAX_NFI_ALERT never EXTERNAL 0 1111111110 000010 0000001 0 SAX-NFI Alert
36SAX_NFI_SRC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 1 SAX-NFI GRB coords
37XTE_ASM_TRANS defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000110 0000001 1 XTE-ASM TRANSIENT coords
38spare38 ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 000000 0000001 0 (spare; used for s/w development testing)
39IPN_POS ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000110 0000001 1 IPN Position coords
40HETE_ALERT_SRC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111101 001010 0000001 1 HETE Trigger Alert
41HETE_UPDATE_SRC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111101 011110 0000001 1 HETE Update position (multiples)
42HETE_FINAL_SRC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111101 011110 0000001 1 HETE Last/Final position
43HETE_GNDANA_SRC defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111101 011110 0000001 1 HETE position from Ground Analysis (HitL)
44HETE_TEST ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111100 010110 0000001 0 HETE TEST
45GRB_CNTRPART ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000110 0000001 0 GRB Counterpart coordinates
46SWIFT_TOO_FOM ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 000010 0000001 0 SWIFT TOO-form of the FOM
47SWIFT_TOO_SC_SLEW ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 000010 0000001 0 SWIFT TOO-form of the SC_SLEW
48DOW_TOD in_work EXTERNAL 0 1111111110 000000 0000000 0 Day-of-Week Time-of-Day end2end testing
50spare50 ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 0000000000 000000 0000000 0 (spare; not yet assigned)
51INTEGRAL_POINTDIR ACTIVE EXTERNAL 2 1111111110 000010 0000001 0 INTEGRAL Pointing Direction
52INTEGRAL_SPIACS ACTIVE EXTERNAL 0 1111111111 011010 0000001 0 INTEGRAL SPIACS
53INTEGRAL_WAKEUP ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 1 INTEGRAL Wakeup
54INTEGRAL_REFINED ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 1 INTEGRAL Refined
55INTEGRAL_OFFLINE ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 1 INTEGRAL Offline (HitL)
56INTEGRAL_WEAK ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 1 INTEGRAL Weak
57AAVSO in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000110 0000000 0 AAVSO
58MILAGRO_POS defunct EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011010 0000001 0 MILAGRO Position
59KONUS_LC ACTIVE EXTERNAL 0 1111111111 000010 0000001 0 KONUS Lightcurve
60SWIFT_BAT_GRB_ALERT ACTIVE EXTERNAL 0 1111111111 000010 0000001 0 BAT ALERT. Never transmitted by the s/c.
61SWIFT_BAT_GRB_POS_ACK ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 111110 0000001 1 BAT GRB Position Acknowledge
62SWIFT_BAT_GRB_POS_NACK ACTIVE EXTERNAL 0 1111111111 000010 0000001 0 BAT GRB Position NOT_Ack (pos not found).
63SWIFT_BAT_GRB_LC ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 100010 1111111 0 BAT GRB Lightcurve
64SWIFT_BAT_SCALEDMAP T-Only EXTERNAL 2 1111111111 000010 0000011 0 BAT Scaled Map
65SWIFT_FOM_OBS ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 100010 0000001 0 BAT FOM to Observe (FOM_2OBSAT)
66SWIFT_SC_SLEW ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 100010 0000001 0 BAT S/C to Slew (FOSC_2OBSAT)
67SWIFT_XRT_POSITION ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 XRT Position
68SWIFT_XRT_SPECTRUM T-Only EXTERNAL 2 1111111111 000010 1111111 0 XRT Spectrum
69SWIFT_XRT_IMAGE ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000010 0111111 0 XRT Image (aka postage stamp)
70SWIFT_XRT_LC T-Only EXTERNAL 2 1111111111 000010 1111111 0 XRT Lightcurve (aka Prompt)
71SWIFT_XRT_CENTROID ACTIVE EXTERNAL 2 1111111111 000010 0000001 0 XRT Centroid Error (Pos Nack)
72SWIFT_UVOT_DBURST ACTIVE EXTERNAL 2 1111111111 000010 0111111 0 UVOT DarkBurst (aka Neighbor, aka GeNie)
73SWIFT_UVOT_FCHART ACTIVE EXTERNAL 2 1111111111 000010 0111111 0 UVOT Finding Chart
76SWIFT_BAT_GRB_LC_PROC in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000010 0000001 0 BAT GRB Lightcurve processed
77SWIFT_XRT_SPECTRUM_PROC T-Only EXTERNAL 2 1111111111 000010 1101111 0 XRT Spectrum processed
78SWIFT_XRT_IMAGE_PROC ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000010 0101111 0 XRT Image processed
79SWIFT_UVOT_DBURST_PROC ACTIVE EXTERNAL 2 1111111111 000010 0111111 0 UVOT DarkBurst proc mesg (aka Neighbor)
80SWIFT_UVOT_FCHART_PROC ACTIVE EXTERNAL 2 1111111111 000010 0111111 0 UVOT Finding Chart processed
81SWIFT_UVOT_POS ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 UVOT Position
82SWIFT_BAT_GRB_POS_TEST ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 011110 0000001 0 BAT GRB Position Test
83SWIFT_POINTDIR ACTIVE EXTERNAL 2 1111111110 000010 0000001 0 Pointing Direction
84SWIFT_BAT_TRANS ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 BAT Hard X-ray Transient coords
85SWIFT_XRT_THRESHPIX T-Only EXTERNAL 2 1111111110 000010 0000011 0 XRT Thresholded-Pixel-list
86SWIFT_XRT_THRESHPIX_PROCT-Only EXTERNAL 2 1111111110 000010 0000011 0 XRT Thresholded-Pixel-list processed
87SWIFT_XRT_SPER T-Only EXTERNAL 2 1111111110 000010 0010011 0 XRT Single-Pixel-Event-Report
88SWIFT_XRT_SPER_PROC T-Only EXTERNAL 2 1111111110 000010 0010011 0 XRT Single-Pixel-Event-Report processed
89SWIFT_UVOT_POS_NACK ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000110 0000001 0 UVOT Position Nack (contains BATs/XRTs position)
90SWIFT_BAT_ALARM_SHORT T-Only EXTERNAL 0 1111111110 000000 0000001 0 SWIFT Appendix_C non-public (Team Ops)
91SWIFT_BAT_ALARM_LONG T-Only EXTERNAL 0 1111111110 000000 0000001 0 SWIFT Appendix_C non-public (Team Ops)
92SWIFT_UVOT_EMERGENCY T-Only EXTERNAL 0 1111111110 000000 0000001 0 SWIFT Appendix_C non-public (Team Ops)
93SWIFT_XRT_EMERGENCY T-Only EXTERNAL 0 1111111110 000000 0000001 0 SWIFT Appendix_C non-public (Team Ops)
94SWIFT_FOM_PPT_ARG_ERR T-Only EXTERNAL 0 1111111110 000000 0000001 0 SWIFT Appendix_C non-public (Team Ops)
95SWIFT_FOM_SAFE_POINT T-Only EXTERNAL 0 1111111110 000000 0000001 0 SWIFT Appendix_C non-public (Team Ops)
96SWIFT_FOM_SLEW_ABORT T-Only EXTERNAL 0 1111111110 000000 0000001 0 SWIFT Appendix_C non-public (Team Ops)
97SWIFT_BAT_QL_POS ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 010110 0000001 0 BAT Quick Look Position (1-6 sec sooner)
98SWIFT_BAT_SUB_THRESHOLD ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 1 BAT Sub-Threshold Position
99SWIFT_BAT_SLEW_POS ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 1 BAT Burst/Trans Pos during slewing
100AGILE_GRB_WAKEUP ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 AGILE GRB Wake-Up Position
101AGILE_GRB_GROUND ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 AGILE GRB Prompt Position
102AGILE_GRB_REFINED ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 AGILE GRB Refined Position
107AGILE_POINTDIR ACTIVE EXTERNAL 2 1111111110 000010 0000001 0 AGILE Pointing Direction
108AGILE_TRANS in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 AGILE Transient Position
109AGILE_GRB_POS_TEST ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 011110 0000001 0 AGILE GRB Position Test
110FERMI_GBM_ALERT ACTIVE EXTERNAL 0 1111111111 010010 0000001 0 GBM Alert
111FERMI_GBM_FLT_POS ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011111 0000001 0 GBM Flightt-calculated Position
112FERMI_GBM_GND_POS ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 0 GBM Ground-calculated Position
113FERMI_GBM_LC in_work EXTERNAL 0 1111111111 000000 0000001 0 GBM Lightcurve
114FERMI_GBM_GND_INTERNAL T-Only EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 010110 0000001 0 GBM Gnd-calc Internal (beyond 112)
115FERMI_GBM_FIN_POS ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 0 GBM Final Position HitL or Offline
118FERMI_GBM_TRANS in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011111 0000001 0 GBM Transient Position
119FERMI_GBM_POS_TEST ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 011110 0000001 0 GBM Position Test
120FERMI_LAT_POS_INI T-Only EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 011110 0000001 1 LAT Position Initial
121FERMI_LAT_POS_UPD ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 LAT Position Update
122FERMI_LAT_POS_DIAG T-Only EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 011110 0000001 1 LAT Position Diagnostic
123FERMI_LAT_TRANS in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 LAT Transient Position (previously unknown source)
124FERMI_LAT_POS_TEST ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 010110 0000001 0 LAT Position Test (like UPD only)
125FERMI_LAT_MONITOR in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 LAT Monitor (eg Blazar, AGN, etc)
126FERMI_SC_SLEW ACTIVE EXTERNAL 2 1111111111 000010 0000001 0 Spcecraft Slew
127FERMI_LAT_GND ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 LAT Ground-analysis refined Pos
128FERMI_LAT_OFFLINE in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 1 LAT Ground-analysis Trigger Pos, Offline
129FERMI_POINTDIR ACTIVE EXTERNAL 2 1111111110 000010 0000001 0 Pointing Direction
130SIMBADNED ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 0011000000 000110 0000000 0 SIMBAD/NED Search Results
131PIOTS_OT_POS in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 1 Pi-Of-The-Sky Optical Transient Pos
132KAIT_SN in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 0 KAIT SuperNova
133SWIFT_BAT_MONITOR ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 0 Swift BAT Transient Monitor LC page event
134MAXI_UNKNOWN ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 1 MAXI previously Unknown source transient (GRBs or other x-ray trans)
135MAXI_KNOWN ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010110 0000001 1 MAXI previously Known source transient (already in some catalog)
136MAXI_TEST ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111110 010110 0000001 0 MAXI Test notice (for the Unknown type)
137OGLE in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010010 0000001 0 OGLE lensing event (Inten, yes; but not Signif)
138CBAT in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 010010 0000000 0 CBAT
139MOA in_work EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 000010 0000000 0 MOA lensing event (turn off inten for now!!!)
140SWIFT_BAT_SUBSUB ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 0 BAT SubSubThreshold trigger
141SWIFT_BAT_KNOWN_SRC ACTIVE EXTERNAL 1 1111111111 011110 0000001 0 Known source detected in ach BAT image
142VOE_1.1_IM_ALIVE ACTIVE EXTERNAL 0 1100000000 000000 0000001 0 I'm alive socket packet every 60 sec
143VOE_2.0_IM_ALIVE ACTIVE EXTERNAL 0 1100000000 000000 0000001 0 I'm alive socket packet every 60 sec
NumTYPE MACRO_NAME STATUS Ext vs Int P SxELCsssXw T I S E D C T p P G J F X S COMMENTS
NUMBER, NAME, STATUS, KIND P Distribution Methods Type-spec Filters Attachments SN MISC

Table Notes:
1) The word "processed" or "PROC" indicates that this notice type is the ground-processed value-added form of the base notice type.
Example: "SWIFT_UVOT_DARKBURST" and "SWIFT_UVOT_DARKBURST_PROC", type_numbers 72 and 79, respectively.


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