GaiaDR2: Resource Record Summary

Resource Record Summary

Catalog Service:
Gaia Source Catalogue DR2

Short name: GaiaDR2 IVOA Identifier: ivo://irsa.ipac/Gaia/GaiaDR2Publisher: NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archiveivo://irsa.ipac/IRSA[Pub. ID] More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/gaia.html VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2020 Jan 06 22:00:00Z
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Description

The Gaia DR2 Source Catalogue contains positions and brightnesses for 1.693 billion stars, including distances and proper motions for more than 1.3 billion stars. For more details, see the Gaia documentation, particularly the Source Catalogue columns description.

More About this Resource

About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archiveivo://irsa.ipac/IRSA[Pub. ID]

Creator: Gaia Collaboration

Contact Information:

X IRSA Support Team
Email: irsasupport at ipac.caltech.edu
Address:

Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: 3
Availability: This is an active resource.

This service apparently provides only public data

Relevant dates for this Resource:

Creation: 2018 Apr 25

This resource was registered on: 2020 Jan 06 22:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2020 Jan 06 23:36:06Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService: This resource is a service that provides access to catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.

Resource type keywords: Catalog	Subject keywords: sky survey
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/gaia.html
Related Resources: Services that provide access to data in this resource: IRSA TAP service ivo://irsa.ipac/TAP [Res. ID]

	Data Coverage Information
	This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time. Wavebands covered: Optical

Available Service Interfaces

Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/SCS?table=gaia_dr2_source&

Maximum search radius accepted: 180 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 2147483647
This service will ignore the VERB input parameter.

	Table Access Protocol - Auxiliary ServiceXX
	This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input an ADQL or PQL query and returns tabular data. VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource. Description: To access this resource via TAP, issue ADQL queries on the table named gaia_dr2_source. Available endpoints for the standard interface: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/TAP

	Custom Service
	This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource. VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource. Available endpoints for this service interface: Interactive web page: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/Gator/nph-dd?catalog=gaia_dr2_source