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Catalog Service:
Einstein Extended Source Survey
Short name: Einstein/Ext.
IVOA Identifier: ivo://nasa.heasarc/exssPublisher: NASA/GSFC HEASARCivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD[Pub. ID]
More Info: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/exss.html
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.		 Status: active
Registered: 2024 May 17 00:00:00Z
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Description


The Einstein Extended Source Survey (EXSS) catalog contains a list of extended sources found in the Einstein Observatory Imaging Proportional Counter (IPC) Database. The source detection algorithm was substantially improved over that used for the Einstein Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS). Sources were searched for using circular apertures with variable radii of up to 6.1 arcminutes. Criteria were constructed so as to ascertain which of the detections were truly diffuse and which of the sizes best approximated each detection. Using these criteria, a catalog of 1325 extended source candidates at high galactic latitude (more than 20 degrees from the Galactic Equator) was produced. Cross-correlating this list with existing source catalogs yielded a reasonably comprehensive set of identifications for the sources in this list: over 400 were identified with known clusters of galaxies, while other objects were identified with galaxies, supernova remnants (SNR), active galactic nuclei (AGN), and stars. Whereas galaxies and SNR are often truly extended objects, AGN and stars can appear as extended ojects as a consequence of their soft X-ray spectra coupled with the broad point-spread function of the IPC at low energies. A total of 321 objects remain completely unidentified. Some of these may be heretofore uncatalogued clusters and groups of galaxies at moderate redshifts. The data used to construct this database table were obtained from the first author's Web site on 12 December 1997. 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: Oppenheimer, Helfand, Gaidos 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 17

This resource was registered on: 2024 May 17 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2024 May 17 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: EINSTEIN
Intended audience or use:
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/exss.html Literature Reference: 1997AJ....113.2134O

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): , 0.166666666666667 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=exss&
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=exss
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:

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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