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Space weather, Star-planet interactions, and planetary dynamics #335

Open katieefrey opened 4 years ago

katieefrey commented 4 years ago

Two questions spawned from the feedback in #329:

1) the UAT has a concept for "solar-planetary interactions" (http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1472), in addition to "Space weather." Should perhaps be synonyms, based on feedback in #329?

2) I've recently added a "Planetary dynamics" concept (#334), which mirror the existing "Exoplanet dynamics" that you point out above. Right now "Planetary dynamics" and "Solar-planetary interactions" are siblings, should I move "interaction" to be a child concept of "dynamics" to mirror the feedback in #329?

stlibrary8 commented 4 years ago

Hi Katie, I am definitely not an expert on these concepts, but I did take a moment to browse ADS. It appears with a preliminary search that "solar-planetary interactions" is to solar system astronomy as "star-planet interactions" is to exoplanet astronomy. I would make "solar-planet interactions" and "star-planet interactions" RT, but do not believe they should be made actual synonyms since they are conceptually different.

"Space weather" seems more generic and while used more to discuss "solar-planet interactions" it does come up as a term used on some exoplanet papers as well. I would consider this a generic synonym that can be applied to both "solar-planet interactions" and "star-planet interactions", but if you think that could cause confusion, the literature supports "space weather" as a synonym to "solar-planet interactions" much more than the exoplanet use case.

I am truly unsure if "Planetary dynamics" and "Solar-planetary interactions" are siblings, or if "interaction" should be a child concept of "dynamics". I'm going to follow up on the placement of those terms with solar system researchers here. I am also going to verify the placement of "star-planet interactions" under "exoplanet dynamics". It may be that one pair has a parent-child relationship and the other (solar system) are sibling terms, or maybe both pairings should be sibling terms after all, but I want to be sure from the researchers' point of view.

I will report back on this ticket, hopefully by 11/20, if I receive feedback in time.

BartlettAstro commented 6 months ago

@ebortey Could you please split this into two issues: solar-planetary interactions/space weather and solar-planetary interactions/planetary dynamics retaining the appropriate pieces of the discussion. Each new issue should identify its origin in this issue and #329. A comment in this issue should identify where the new issue numbers for each. solar-planetary interactions/space weather should be tagged for heliophysics. solar-planetary interactions/planetary dynamics should be tagged with heliophysics and planetary science.

ebortey commented 5 months ago

See issue #439 for solar-planetary interactions/space weather See issue #440 for solar-planetary interactions/planetary dynamics