Is json the best format to transmit data for the timing message tier?

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Client application for the SuperNova Early Warning System 2.0 network

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Is json the best format to transmit data for the timing message tier? #25

Open gvannoye opened 3 years ago

gvannoye commented 3 years ago

To transmit time series that can be a big amount of data, json might not be the best format.

Another proposition could be FITS, as it is compressed, can contain metadata in the header and is widely used in astronomy.

Related to #24

PS: Sorry for all the edits I got mixed between the issues I wanted to open

habig commented 3 years ago

Certainly we'd like the ability to send FITS for the skymap of whatever our pointing results are, so the technical capability to do so will be needed. The SCIMMA folks say that hop shoul dbe able to do this, as trading FITS files is what telescopes do all the time.