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Catalog Service:
BeppoSAX Wide Field Camera Unbiased X-Ray Source Catalog

Short name: SAXWFCCAT2
IVOA Identifier: ivo://nasa.heasarc/saxwfccat2Publisher: NASA/GSFC HEASARCivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD[Pub. ID]
More Info: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/saxwfccat2.html
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Status: active
Registered: 2024 May 31 00:00:00Z
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Description


During the operational life of the Italian/Dutch X-ray satellite (1996-2002), BeppoSAX, its two Wide Field Cameras (WFCs) performed observations that covered the full sky at different epochs. Although the majority of the analyses performed on BeppoSAX WFC data concentrated on the detection of transient sources, the authors have now applied the same techniques developed for the INTEGRAL/IBIS survey so as to produce a similar analysis of the BeppoSAX WFC data. This work represents the first unbiased source list compilation produced from the overall WFC data set which is optimized for faint persistent source detection. This approach recovered 182 more sources compared to the previous WFC catalog reported in Verrecchia et al. (2007, A&A, 472, 705; the HEASARC SAXWFCCAT table). The present catalog contains 404 sources detected between 3 and 17 keV, 10 of which are yet to be seen by the new generation of telescopes. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2011 based on an electronic version of Table 3 from the reference paper which was obtained from the ApJS web site. 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: Capitanio 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: 2024 May 31

This resource was registered on: 2024 May 31 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2024 May 31 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: BEPPOSAX
Intended audience or use:
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/saxwfccat2.html Literature Reference: 2011ApJS..195....9C

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): , 0.0166666666666667 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=saxwfccat2&
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=saxwfccat2
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:


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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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