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Resource Record Summary

Catalog Service:
ASCA Large Sky Survey
Short name: ASCALSS
IVOA Identifier: ivo://nasa.heasarc/ascalssPublisher: NASA/GSFC HEASARCivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD[Pub. ID]
More Info: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/ascalss.html
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.		 Status: active
Registered: 2025 Feb 21 00:00:00Z
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Description


The ASCA Large Sky Survey (LSS) was the first wide-area unbiased survey with the ASCA satellite in the 0.7 - 10 keV band around the North Galactic Pole region covering a continuous area of 7 square degrees. To make the best use of ASCA's capabilities, the authors developed a new source detection method in which the complicated detector responses were fully taken into account. Applying this method to the entire LSS data independently in the total (0.7 - 7 keV), hard (2 - 10 keV), and soft (0.7 - 2 keV) bands, they detected 107 sources altogether, with sensitivity limits of 6 x 10<sup>-14</sup> (0.7 - 7 keV), 1 x 10<sup>-13</sup> (2 - 10 keV), and 2 x 10<sup>-14</sup> ergs/s/cm<sup>2</sup> (0.7 - 2 keV), respectively. The complete list of detected sources is presented in this table. The detection criteria that needed to be satisfied were: (i) the significance of the summed count rate of the GIS and the SIS should exceed 4.5, and (ii) the significance of either the GIS or the SIS should also exceed 3.5. This database was created by the HEASARC in December 2001 based on the ADC/<a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/518/656">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/518/656</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: NASA/GSFC HEASARCivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD[Pub. ID]

Creator: Ueda et al. Contributor:

Contact Information:
X NASA/GSFC HEASARC help desk
Email:

Status of This Resource

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

Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.
  • This service apparently provides only public data
Relevant dates for this Resource:
  • Representative: 2025 Feb 21

This resource was registered on: 2025 Feb 21 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2025 Feb 21 00:00:00Z
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:
  • Survey Source
This service provides data from:
  • facility: ASCA
Intended audience or use:
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/ascalss.html Literature Reference: 1999ApJ...518..656U

Related Resources:

Services that provide access to data in this resource:
HEASARC TAP ivo://nasa.heasarc/services/xamin [Res. ID]

Data Coverage Information

This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time.

Reference Coordinate System: UTC-ICRS-TOPOXXivo://STClib/CoordSys#UTC-ICRS-TOPO[Res. ID]

Sky Coverage: Regions covered:

  • All-sky: The data from this resource is distributed over the entire sky.
Typical Size Scale (Region of Regard): , 0.0833333333333333 deg

Wavebands covered:

  • X-ray

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://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=ascalss&
Maximum search radius accepted: 180 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 99999
This service supports the VERB input parameter:
Use VERB=1 to minimize the returned columns or VERB=3 to maximize.
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.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/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:
  • URL-based interface: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/getvotable.pl?name=ascalss
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:

Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation
under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
The NAVO project is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

This NAVO Application is hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute
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