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Resource Record Summary

Catalog Service:
TheoSSA - Theoretical Stellar Spectra Access
Short name: theossa
IVOA Identifier: ivo://org.gavo.dc/theossa/q/ssaPublisher: The GAVO DC team
More Info: http://dc.g-vo.org/theossa/q/ssa/info
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.		 Status: active
Registered: 2010 Nov 11 15:00:00Z
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Description


TheoSSA provides spectral energy distributions based on model atmosphere calculations. Currently, we serve results obtained using the Tübingen NLTE Model Atmosphere Package (TMAP) for hot compact stars.

More About this Resource

About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: The GAVO DC team

Creator: Rauch, T.

Contact Information:
X Thomas Rauch
Email: gavo at listserv.uni-tuebingen.de

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: 2025 May 08 14:20:35Z

This resource was registered on: 2010 Nov 11 15:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2024 Dec 27 08:31:03Z
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 data (specifically, spectra). With this type of service, you can search for data by issuing a query, and information about available data is returned as a table.
Resource type keywords:
  • Archive
  • Simulation
 Subject keywords:
  • spectroscopy
  • astronomical-simulations
  • post-asymptotic-giant-branch-stars
  • stellar-atmospheres
Intended audience or use: none specified
More Info: http://dc.g-vo.org/theossa/q/ssa/info Literature Reference: 2018MNRAS.475.3896R

Related Resources:

Other Related Resources
TMAW(IsDerivedFrom) ivo://org.gavo.dc/theossa/q/tmaw [Res. ID]
GAVO Data Center Obscore(IsServedBy) ivo://org.gavo.dc/__system__/obscore/obscore [Res. ID]

Data Coverage Information

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

Wavebands covered:

  • Optical
  • UV
Rights and Usage Information

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

Rights:

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:
  • URL-based interface: http://dc.g-vo.org/theossa/q/ssa/ssap.xml?
    • Role: std
    • This interface supports the following arguments:
      POS
      ICRS position of target object
      Value Type: char
      Unit: deg
      SIZE
      Size of the region of interest around POS
      Value Type: real
      Unit: deg
      BAND
      Wavelength (range) of interest (or symbolic bandpass names)
      Value Type: char
      Unit: m
      TIME
      Midpoint of exposure (MJD)
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): time.epoch
      FORMAT
      MIME type of the file served
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.mime
      APERTURE
      Angular diameter of aperture
      Value Type: char
      Unit: deg
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.angSize;instr.fov
      SNR
      Signal-to-noise ratio estimated for this dataset
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): stat.snr
      REDSHIFT
      Redshift of target object
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): src.redshift
      TARGETNAME
      Common name of object observed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.id;src
      TARGETCLASS
      Object class (star, QSO,...; use Simbad object classification http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-display?data=otypes if at all possible)
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): src.class
      MTIME
      Date last published.
      Value Type: char
      FLUXCALIB
      Type of flux calibration (ABSOLUTE, CALIBRATED, RELATIVE, NORMALIZED, or UNCALIBRATED).
      Value Type: char
      SPATRES
      Spatial resolution of data
      Value Type: char
      Unit: deg
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): pos.angResolution
      WAVECALIB
      Type of wavelength calibration
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.qual
      COLLECTION
      A short handle naming the collection this spectrum belongs to.
      Value Type: char
      SPECRP
      Lower limit to spectral resolution power (λ/Δλ) as a single number.
      Value Type: real
      PUBDID
      Dataset identifier assigned by the publisher
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.ref.ivoid
      CREATORDID
      Dataset identifier assigned by the creator
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.id
      WILDTARGET
      Shell pattern of target observed (case insensitive)
      Value Type: char
      WILDTARGETCASE
      Shell pattern of target observed (case sensitive)
      Value Type: char
      REQUEST
      This is queryData for the default operation; some services support getData as well
      Value Type: char
      TOP
      Only return the TOP "best" records (on this service, this usually is equivalent to MAXREC, so no ranking is implied).
      Value Type: integer
      COMPRESS
      Return compressed results?
      Value Type: char
      RUNID
      An identifier for a certain run. Opaque to the service
      Value Type: char
      t_eff
      Effective temperature assumed
      Value Type: char
      Unit: K
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.temperature.effective
      log_g
      Log of surface gravity assumed
      Value Type: char
      Unit: cm/s**2
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.gravity
      mdot
      Mass loss rate
      Value Type: char
      Unit: solMass/yr
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.mass.loss
      w_H
      Mass fraction of H in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_He
      Mass fraction of He in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Li
      Mass fraction of Li in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Be
      Mass fraction of Be in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_B
      Mass fraction of B in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_C
      Mass fraction of C in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_N
      Mass fraction of N in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_O
      Mass fraction of O in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_F
      Mass fraction of F in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Ne
      Mass fraction of Ne in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Na
      Mass fraction of Na in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Mg
      Mass fraction of Mg in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Al
      Mass fraction of Al in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Si
      Mass fraction of Si in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_P
      Mass fraction of P in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_S
      Mass fraction of S in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Cl
      Mass fraction of Cl in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Ar
      Mass fraction of Ar in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_K
      Mass fraction of K in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Ca
      Mass fraction of Ca in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Sc
      Mass fraction of Sc in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Ti
      Mass fraction of Ti in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_V
      Mass fraction of V in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Cr
      Mass fraction of Cr in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Mn
      Mass fraction of Mn in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Fe
      Mass fraction of Fe in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Co
      Mass fraction of Co in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Ni
      Mass fraction of Ni in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Zn
      Mass fraction of Zn in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Ga
      Mass fraction of Ga in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Ge
      Mass fraction of Ge in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Kr
      Mass fraction of Kr in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Mo
      Mass fraction of Mo in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Tc
      Mass fraction of Tc in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Sn
      Mass fraction of Sn in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Xe
      Mass fraction of Xe in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      w_Ba
      Mass fraction of Ba in the model computed.
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): phys.abund
      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:
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:
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.g-vo.org/theossa/q/sdl/dlget
    • Role: std
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.g-vo.org/theossa/q/sdl/dlmeta
    • Role: std
    • This interface supports the following arguments:
      ID
      The publisher DID of the dataset of interest
      Value Type: char
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.id;meta.main
      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

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under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
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