[vsnet-alert 11311] re CRTS transient names, as per VizieR

[redvars at fastmail.co.uk]

As by happenstance B/VSX, ie the VizieR holding version of AAVSO VSX,
carries the requested CRTS identifiers, ie CSS:etc, then radius searches
on the standard systems that either check VizieR or a multitude of VO
linked resources which include VizieR linkage will hook into those
identifiers.

Also other general science teams, not necessarily cataclysmic variable
nor even variable star experts and potentially even entirely unaware of
vsnet, and working from the CRTS website and data and paper, would use
the object identifier suggested to them thereat to search on object IDs.
 OT identifiers just live in a small subsection of the cataclysmic
variable devotees' little pond generated by some of the medium sized
fish there.

I mean, you know, what's so difficult about it?

It's not as if many another source used by cataclysmic variable groups
don't follow modern IAU nomenclature recommendations.  Look at the HS
ones for a start.  Admittedly it's the accepted format because of age
and precedent, ie "backward compatability", but it don't follow the
precision rules for sexigesimal and gives all sorts of optical
transients in only very imprecise B1950 coords.  Shall we make them all
useful too and make 'em OT_J<arcsec precision>?

Nope.  Why not?  Coz nomenclature is also part of bibliography.

John Greaves

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