Gsoc 2013 project hek helio integration

The Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase (HEK) is a US-based effort to collect and catalog solar and heliospheric events. Its focus is mainly the inner heliosphere. On the other hand the [HELiophysics Integrated Observatory)[http://helio.eu] (HELIO) is a set of services which includes Events and Feature catalogues (known as hec and hfc), an Instrument Location and Capability Service (ILS & ICS), and a data provider access (DPAS). All of them can be accessed from the main interface and by SOAP or REST webservices. There's also a propagation model (SHEBA) which helps to match events in the Sun with other locations in the heliosphere.

Uses of HEK

Uses of HELIO

HELIO provides a large set of services, even more than the ones set above, therefore it uses can vary on what the user wants. For now we should focus on single uses on some of the services. Notice that the webservices produces votables (AstroPy has support to that file format). Also, it should be helpful to see what's been implemented in solarsoft.

HELIO Catalogues

The event and the feature catalogue contains a list of catalogues similar to those in HEK, but for events in all the heliosphere.

Events

Features

Instrument Location

ILS provides information about the location of planets and spacecraft.