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Catalog Service:
SP_ACE spectral analysis tool

Short name: sp_ace
IVOA Identifier: ivo://org.gavo.dc/sp_ace/q/cPublisher: The GAVO DC team
More Info: http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/sp_ace/q/c/info
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Status: active
Registered: 2014 Jul 23 12:00:00Z
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Description


SP_ACE computes stellar parameters (gravity, temperature) and element abundances from optical stellar spectra (`sample spectrum`_). It employs 1D stellar atmosphere models in Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (LTE). The present service does not offer all the options available for SP_Ace as documented in `the tutorial`_. All options are available if running SP_Ace locally (cf. `download page`_). This service exposes an updated version containing some bug fixes with respect to the one described in the paper. .. _the tutorial: http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/sp_ace/q/dist/static/tutorial.pdf .. _download page: http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/sp_ace/q/dist/static .. _sample spectrum: http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/sp_ace/q/c/static/fast_spectrum.txt

More About this Resource

About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: The GAVO DC team

Creators:
Boeche, C.Demleitner, M.Heinl, H.

Contact Information:
X GAVO Data Centre Team
Email: gavo at ari.uni-heidelberg.de
Address: Mönchhofstrasse 12-14
D-69120 Heidelberg

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.
Relevant dates for this Resource:
  • Updated: 2015 Nov 30
  • Updated: 2016 Feb 04
  • Updated: 2016 Jul 28
  • Updated: 2017 Jun 21
  • Updated: 2017 Dec 04
  • Updated: 2019 Aug 12
  • Updated: 2020 Jul 17

This resource was registered on: 2014 Jul 23 12:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2024 Aug 15 15:16:58Z

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: none provided Subject keywords:
  • stellar-abundances
  • spectroscopy
  • stellar-atmospheres
  • astronomy-data-analysis
Intended audience or use: none specified
More Info: http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/sp_ace/q/c/info Literature Reference: 2016A&A...587A...2B

Rights and Usage Information

This section describes the rights and usage information for this data.

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Available Service Interfaces

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:
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: http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/sp_ace/q/c/api?
    • This interface supports the following arguments:
      UPLOAD
      An upload of the form 'spectrum,URL'; the input for this parameter is then taken from URL, which may be param:name for pulling the content from the inline upload name. Purpose of the upload: ASCII file with two columns: wavelength (in Angstrom) and continuum normalized flux. The spectrum must be radial velocity corrected (wavelengths in rest frame). The spectral resolution power should be between 2000 and 20000. SP_Ace handles spectra in the stellar parameters intervals Teff=[3600,7400]K, logg=[0.2,5.0], [M/H]=[-2.4,0.4]dex.
      Value Type: char
      fwhm
      Starting value for estimation of FWHM of the instrument line profile.
      Value Type: real
      Unit: Angstrom
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): spect.line.width;instr
      wave_lims
      Give up to five wavelength intervals you want to analyze, starting from the lowest. Intervals not covered by the library will be ignored. The default setting is the range of wavelenghts currently processed by the software.
      Value Type: char
      tforce
      Force solver to assume this temperature. Leave empty to let SP_Ace estimate this parameter.
      Value Type: real
      Unit: K
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): stat.param;phys;temperature.effective
      gforce
      Force solver to assume this gravity. Leave empty to let SP_Ace estimate this parameter.
      Value Type: real
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): stat.param;phys.gravity
      snrforce
      Force solver to assume this signal to noise ratio on every pixel. Suggestion: Leave empty to let SP_Ace to estimate this parameter pixel-by-pixel.
      Value Type: real
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): stat.param;stat.snr
      rv_ini
      Provide an estimation of the object's radial velocity in case the spectrum is not RV-corrected.
      Value Type: real
      Unit: km/s
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): spect.dopplerVeloc
      compute_errors
      Make SP_Ace estimate errors (this increases runtime significantly).
      Value Type: char
      alpha
      If selected, the output will only contain two abundances: 'alphas' and 'metals', which are the estimation of the abundances of alpha-process elements and non-alpha-process elements as if they were one element. Hint: This option is mostly useful with low-resolution (R ~ 2000) spectra. See the tutorial for more details.
      Value Type: char
      no_norm
      Process the spectrum with the normalization provided by the user? This option switches off the internal re-normalization done by SP_Ace. Suggestion: Do not set unless you are absolutely sure that your normalization is right.
      Value Type: char
      norm_rad
      This parameter determines the flexibility of the curve used to fit the continuum during the re-normalization of the spectrum. The higher the number the more rigid the curve is (see discussion in the tutorial and in Sec.7.4 of the paper). Suggestion: leave the default value unless you know very well what you are doing.
      Value Type: real
      abd_loop
      Switch on the loop that iteratively derives stellar parameters (Teff, log g, [M/H]) and chemical abundances. Suggestion: do not set (see Sec. 8.5.1 of the paper). If your spectrum has low resolution (R ~ 2000), see discussion in the tutorial.
      Value Type: char
      responseformat
      File format requested for output.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.mime
      maxrec
      Maximum number of records returned. Pass 0 to retrieve service parameters.
      Value Type: integer
      verb
      Exhaustiveness of column selection. VERB=1 only returns the most important columns, VERB=2 selects the columns deemed useful to the average user, VERB=3 returns a table with all available columns.
      Value Type: integer
VOSI AvailabilityXX

This is a standard IVOA service endpoint that returns information about the availability and uptime of the main IVOA standard service.

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

This is a standard IVOA service endpoint that returns the detailed capabilities of the main IVOA standard service.

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

This is a standard IVOA service endpoint that returns information about the table schema managed by the main IVOA standard service.

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