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one second of right ascension in hour notation equals 15 arcseconds of coordinate angle.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are the supplied numbers decimal degrees, decimal hours, radians or sexagesimal components?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "angular-hour-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "What rounding and significant-digit convention should be retained when converting the value?", "kind": "action", "id": "angular-hour-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "circular-value-handling", "name": "Circular value handling", "description": "Handles equivalent values and intervals crossing the zero meridian.", "findings": [ { "id": "full-turn-equivalence", "name": "Full-turn equivalence", "description": "Right ascension is periodic modulo one full turn; ordinary subtraction, sorting and averaging may produce misleading results near the wrap boundary.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which canonical interval and endpoint convention should this application use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "full-turn-equivalence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the requested difference mean shortest signed longitude difference, eastward displacement or separation on the celestial sphere?", "kind": "action", "id": "full-turn-equivalence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reference-context-and-time", "name": "Reference context and time", "description": "Records the frame and temporal conventions needed to interpret a right ascension value.", "rationale": "Numerically similar coordinates can denote different directions when their reference context differs.", "layers": [ { "id": "frame-and-equinox", "name": "Frame and equinox", "description": "Identifies the reference system and determines whether an equinox parameter applies.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-reference-context", "name": "Explicit reference context", "description": "The agent must preserve distinctions among frame identity, equinox and informal labels; ICRS has no equinox parameter and should not be silently equated with every coordinate labelled J2000.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented frame or catalog convention defines this value?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "explicit-reference-context-q01" }, { "text": "Does the source's J2000 or similar label specify an equinox, a coordinate epoch, a frame convention or an unresolved shorthand?", "kind": "definition", "id": "explicit-reference-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "epoch-and-position-convention", "name": "Epoch and position convention", "description": "Distinguishes when a position applies from the corrections and viewpoint used to express it.", "findings": [ { "id": "temporal-and-apparent-status", "name": "Temporal and apparent status", "description": "Coordinate epoch, observation time and equinox serve different purposes; apparent or observer-dependent positions require additional context defined by the source.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what epoch does this position apply, and how is that epoch distinguished from the observation time and equinox?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "temporal-and-apparent-status-q01" }, { "text": "What does the source mean by astrometric, mean or apparent right ascension, including any observer and correction conventions?", "kind": "definition", "id": "temporal-and-apparent-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "position-operations-and-dependencies", "name": "Position operations and dependencies", "description": "Defines which computations a right ascension value supports and which additional inputs they require.", "rationale": "Right ascension alone is insufficient for a full celestial direction or a general coordinate transformation.", "layers": [ { "id": "direction-comparison-and-transformation", "name": "Direction comparison and transformation", "description": "Links right ascension to the complete position needed for geometric operations.", "findings": [ { "id": "paired-position-required", "name": "Paired position required", "description": "Angular separation and frame transformations normally require associated declination and compatible reference context; a right ascension difference is not generally a sky separation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is a declination available in the same frame, epoch and position convention?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "paired-position-required-q01" }, { "text": "Which transformation or spherical comparison is required, and are all inputs demanded by that operation available?", "kind": "action", "id": "paired-position-required-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "motion-and-meridian-use", "name": "Motion and meridian use", "description": "Supports epoch propagation and use with sidereal quantities without confusing these operations.", "findings": [ { "id": "operation-specific-inputs", "name": "Operation-specific inputs", "description": "Position propagation depends on an appropriate motion model; conversion to hour angle depends on a compatible sidereal quantity and origin convention.", "questions": [ { "text": "For epoch propagation, is the reported right ascension motion dα/dt or cos δ times dα/dt, and what other motion inputs are required for the intended accuracy?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "operation-specific-inputs-q01" }, { "text": "For hour-angle calculation, are the local sidereal quantity and right ascension expressed using compatible origins and mean or apparent conventions?", "kind": "action", "id": "operation-specific-inputs-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "uncertainty-and-coordinate-limits", "name": "Uncertainty and coordinate limits", "description": "Assesses uncertainty conventions, numerical conditioning and fitness for the intended use.", "rationale": "A precise-looking longitude can still be ambiguous or poorly conditioned, especially near a celestial pole.", "layers": [ { "id": "longitude-and-sky-uncertainty", "name": "Longitude and sky uncertainty", "description": "Distinguishes uncertainty in the coordinate from uncertainty in the local sky direction.", "findings": [ { "id": "declination-scaled-error", "name": "Declination-scaled error", "description": "For small displacements, the local east-west angular component is cos δ times the right ascension change; uncertainty interpretation must identify whether this factor is already included.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the reported error describe α itself or its declination-scaled tangent-plane component, and in which units?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "declination-scaled-error-q01" }, { "text": "What covariance with declination or motion parameters must be retained for comparison or propagation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "declination-scaled-error-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "polar-and-context-validity", "name": "Polar and context validity", "description": "Identifies cases where a right ascension value cannot safely support the requested interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "singularity-and-use-readiness", "name": "Singularity and use readiness", "description": "Right ascension is undefined at the celestial poles and becomes poorly conditioned nearby; missing frame or unit declarations can also prevent reliable use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the direction at or sufficiently near a celestial pole that the intended calculation should use a vector or local tangent-plane representation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "singularity-and-use-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Do the available reference metadata and uncertainty support the task's accuracy requirement, or must the agent obtain additional information?", "kind": "action", "id": "singularity-and-use-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "International Astronomical Union (IAU): International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), the standard reference system for modern astrometric positions.", "International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS): IERS Conventions specify transformations between celestial and terrestrial reference systems." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of right ascension this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Locating celestial objects when paired with declination.", "Recording positions in astronomical catalogues.", "Pointing and tracking astronomical telescopes.", "Calculating local hour angle from compatible right ascension and local sidereal time.", "Describing predicted positions of moving Solar System objects in ephemerides." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of right ascension this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Right ascension", "typical_range": "0 inclusive to 24 exclusive; equivalently 0 inclusive to 360 exclusive", "unit": "hours, minutes and seconds of angular measure, or degrees; 1 hour equals 15 degrees" }, { "quantity": "Small angular displacement along a parallel of declination", "typical_range": "Approximately Δα cos(δ) for a small right-ascension difference Δα at fixed declination δ", "unit": "radians, degrees or arcseconds, using consistent angular units" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of right ascension this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Mixing reference frames, equinoxes or position epochs can produce incorrect positions.", "Confusing hours of right ascension with degrees introduces a factor-of-15 error.", "Treating the 0-hour/24-hour boundary as a discontinuity corrupts differences, averages and searches.", "Ignoring the cosine of declination when converting right-ascension differences into angular separations gives incorrect distances.", "Right ascension is undefined at the celestial poles and becomes poorly conditioned near them." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of right ascension this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Declination", "difference": "Declination measures angular distance north or south of the celestial equator; right ascension specifies position around that equator." }, { "name": "Hour angle", "difference": "Hour angle is measured westward from the observer's celestial meridian and changes with Earth's rotation; right ascension uses the celestial reference system's origin." }, { "name": "Ecliptic longitude", "difference": "Ecliptic longitude uses the ecliptic as its reference plane; right ascension uses the celestial equator." }, { "name": "Sidereal time", "difference": "Local sidereal time is a measure of Earth's rotational orientation, equal to the right ascension on the local meridian under compatible conventions." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of right ascension this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which authoritative astronomical references should anchor the model's definitions and accepted reference-system terminology?", "Which frame, equinox, epoch and apparent-position conventions occur in the registry's intended source catalogs, and how explicitly do those sources document them?", "Should right ascensions measured from equinox-based and CIO-based origins be represented as variants within this entry, and what terminology best prevents confusion?", "What accuracy requirements should govern minimum motion inputs, uncertainty propagation and the switch to vector-based handling near celestial poles?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own right ascension or its complete coordinate semantics, requiring this registry entry to link to that model?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 27 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 77 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one right ascension from another, and a right ascension from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a right ascension, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a right ascension, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a right ascension is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a right ascension, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a right ascension, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a right ascension is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a right ascension sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a right ascension, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a right ascension, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a right ascension is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a right ascension from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a right ascension, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a right ascension, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a right ascension is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a right ascension passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a 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is right ascension operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of right ascension and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of right ascension?", "kind": "boundary" }, { 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"authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a right ascension is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }