OSSE: Resource Record Summary

Resource Record Summary

Catalog Service:
CGRO/OSSE Observations

Short name: OSSE IVOA Identifier: ivo://nasa.heasarc/ossePublisher: NASA/GSFC HEASARCivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD[Pub. ID] More Info: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/osse.html VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2025 Feb 28 00:00:00Z
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Description

This database table is based on the set of OSSE observation data products available at the HEASARC. The Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE) is one of four experiments on NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) satellite. OSSE was designed to undertake comprehensive gamma-ray observations of astrophysical sources in the 0.05-10 MeV energy range. The instrument also had secondary capabilities for gamma-ray and neutron observations above 10 MeV that are of particular value for solar flare studies. This database table was last updated in August 2005. Some duplicate entries in the table were removed in June 2019. The data in this table was supplied by the CGRO Science Support Center. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

More About this Resource

About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

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

Creator: HEASARC/COSSC 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 28

This resource was registered on: 2025 Feb 28 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2025 Feb 28 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: Archive	Subject keywords: This service provides data from: facility: CGRO
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/osse.html	Literature Reference:
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): , 6 deg Wavebands covered: Gamma-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=osse&

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=osse

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://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_osse&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1