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Catalog Service:
Astrophysics Data System

Short name: ADS IVOA Identifier: ivo://ads.harvard.edu/conePublisher: NASA Astrophysics Data System ivo://ads.harvard.edu/ADS[Pub. ID] More Info: http://ads.harvard.edu VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2004 Nov 22 12:22:52Z
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Description

The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) provides access to the astronomical literature. It is funded by NASA and hosted at the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. It consists of two main parts. The abstract service allows you to search the tables of contents and abstracts of essentially the whole astronomical literature. The article service contains the scanned full articles of a large part of the astronomical literature. Access to the ADS is free to anybody world-wide.

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: NASA Astrophysics Data System ivo://ads.harvard.edu/ADS[Pub. ID]

Creator: Alberto Accomazzi

Contact Information:

X Alberto Accomazzi
Email: aaccomazzi at cfa.harvard.edu

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

This resource was registered on: 2004 Nov 22 12:22:52Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2011 Sep 14 18:11:55Z

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: Bibliography	Subject keywords: Astronomical literature
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: http://ads.harvard.edu

	Data Coverage Information
	This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time. Wavebands covered: Radio Millimeter Infrared Optical UV EUV X-ray Gamma-ray

Available Service Interfaces

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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:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/abs_connect?data_type=VOTABLE&

Maximum search radius accepted: 180 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 500
This service will ignore the VERB input parameter.

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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