The GINGALOG database table contains selected information from the Large Area Counter (LAC) aboard the third Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite Ginga. The Ginga experiment began on day 36, 5 February 1987 and ended in November 1991. Ginga consisted of the LAC, the all-sky monitor (ASM) and the gamma-ray burst detector (GBD). The satellite was in a circular orbit at 31 degree inclination with apogee 670 km and perigee 510 km, and with a period of 96 minutes. A Ginga observation consisted of varying numbers of major frames which had lengths of 4, 32, or 128 seconds, depending on the setting of the bitrate. Each GINGALOG database entry is the first record of a series of observations having the same values of "ACS MONITOR" (Attitude Control System). When this value changes, a new FITS file was written. The other Ginga catalog database, GINGAMODE is also a subset of the same LAC dump file used to create GINGALOG. GINGAMODE contains a listing whenever any of the following changes: "BITRATE", "LACMODE", "DISCRIMINATOR", or "ACS MONITOR". Thus, GINGAMODE monitors changes in several parameters and GINGALOG is a basic log of all the FITS files. Both databases point to the corresponding archived Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) files, but GINGAMODE may have more than one entry for a given FILE_LCURVE in the database. The user is invited to browse though the observations available from Ginga using GINGALOG or GINGAMODE, then extract the FITS files for more detailed analysis. The Ginga LAC Log Catalog was prepared from data sent to NASA/GSFC from the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in Japan. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
The GINGAMODE database table contains selected information from the Large Area Counter (LAC) aboard the third Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite Ginga. The Ginga experiment began on day 36, 5 February 1987 and ended in November 1991. Ginga consisted of the LAC, the all-sky monitor (ASM) and the gamma-ray burst detector (GBD). The satellite was in a circular orbit at 31 degree inclination with apogee 670 km and perigee 510 km, and with a period of 96 minutes. A Ginga observation consisted of varying numbers of major frames which had lengths of 4, 32, or 128 seconds, depending on the setting of the bitrate. Each GINGAMODE database entry consists of data from the first record of a series of observations having the same values of the following: "BITRATE", "LACMODE", "DISCRIMINATOR", or "ACS MONITOR". When any of these changed, a new entry was written into GINGAMODE. The other Ginga catalog database, GINGALOG is also a subset of the same LAC dump file used to create GINGAMODE. GINGALOG contains a listing only whenever the "ACS monitor" (Attitude Control System) changes. Thus, GINGAMODE monitors changes in four parameters and GINGALOG is a basic log database mapping the individual FITS files. Ginga FITS files may have more than one entries in the GINGAMODE database. Both databases point to the same archived Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) files created from the LAC dump files. The user is invited to browse though the observations available from Ginga using GINGALOG or GINGAMODE, then extract the FITS files for more detailed analysis. The Ginga LAC Mode Catalog was prepared from data sent to NASA/GSFC from the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in Japan. <p> Duplicate entries were removed from the HEASARC implementation of this catalog in June 2019. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
The GINGARAW database table provides access to the raw GINGA files in FITS format for the LAC experiment. Ginga was the third Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite. It was launched into low Earth orbit on 5th February 1987 and re-entered the atmosphere on 1st November 1991. The scientific payload consisted of the Large Area Counter (LAC; Turner et al. 1989), the All-Sky Monitor (ASM; Tsunemi et al. 1989) and the Gamma-ray Burst Detector (GBD; Murakami et al. 1989). A full description of the satellite is given in Makino et al. (1987). During its lifetime Ginga performed over 1000 pointed observations of approximately 350 different targets, covering all then known classes of cosmic X-ray sources. The LAC experiment, sensitive to X-rays with energy 1.5-37 keV, was the main scientific instrument aboard Ginga. It was designed and built under a Japan-UK collaboration (ISAS, U. Tokyo, Nagoya U., U. Leicester, Rutherford Appleton Lab). It consisted of an array of eight collimated co-aligned proportional counters with a total effective area of approximately 4000 cm<sup>2</sup>. Steel collimators restricted the field of view to 1.1 x 2.0 degrees (FWHM). This database table was last updated by the HEASARC in August 2005. Galactic coordinates were added and some parameters were renamed to adhere to the HEASARC's current parameter naming conventions. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
The GINGALAC database table contains a summary of the contents of the Ginga pointed observations. This table has been produced from the raw Ginga LAC First Reduction Files (FRFs) and contains information of the individual pointings in addition to FITS spectra and light curves, HDS and FITS data cubes and the plots produced during the pipeline processing. These products can be used with either the Ginga data analysis software or the <a href="/docs/xanadu/xanadu.html">XANADU software suite</a>. This archive (database and all the associated products) is a copy of the GINGA LAC data products held at the Leicester Data Archive Service (<a href="http://ledas-www.star.le.ac.uk">http://ledas-www.star.le.ac.uk</a>). It was delivered to the HEASARC in 1999 as part of an archive exchange between the data centers. The original version was updated in October 2008, when the positions (which had been created assuming the wrong equinox) were corrected; in addition, the values of the nh parameter were corrected. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
This table records high-level information for the observations obtained with HaloSat and provides access to the HaloSat data archive. HaloSat is the first astrophysics-focused CubeSat funded by NASA's Astrophysics Division (PI P. Kaaret, University of Iowa). HaloSat is designed to map soft X-ray oxygen line emissions across the sky in order to constrain the mass and spatial distribution of hot gas in the Milky Way. HaloSat was launched from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility and delivered to the International Space Station on May 21, 2018. HaloSat was deployed into orbit on July 13, 2018. The spacecraft and science instrument commissioning phase ended on October 16, 2018, and science operations started after that. Initially approved to operate for 12 months, HaloSat successfully collected science data from October 15, 2018, until September 29, 2020, effectively doubling the mission lifetime. HaloSat reentered Earth's atmosphere on January 4, 2021. To trace the Galactic halo, HaloSat is equipped with a non-focusing instrument, comprised of three independent silicon drift detectors (SDD14, SDD38, SDD54) operating in the energy range of 0.4 - 7.0 keV with a field of view of 10 deg in diameter and an energy resolution of 84.8 +/- 2.7 eV at 677 eV and 137.4 +/- 0.9 eV at 5895 eV. The observing strategy was to divide the sky into 333 positions (HaloSat fields) and acquire a minimum of 8000 detector-seconds for each position throughout the initial 12 months of operations. After launch, additional positions were added to the initial 333 positions. HaloSat observations of the chosen fields are divided in intervals of time such that the data files do not exceed 2GB. Each observation is labeled with a sequence number. This database table contains one record for each sequence number and includes parameters related to the observation. The contents of this database table are generated at the HEASARC using information from the data files. The table was last updated in April 2023. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
This table records the start and stop times of the uninterrupted observation intervals obtained by the three detectors on board of HaloSat and provides access to the HaloSat observations containing these intervals. HaloSat is the first astrophysics-focused CubeSat funded by NASA's Astrophysics Division (PI P. Kaaret, University of Iowa). HaloSat is designed to map soft X-ray oxygen line emissions across the sky in order to constrain the mass and spatial distribution of hot gas in the Milky Way. HaloSat was launched from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility and delivered to the International Space Station on May 21, 2018. HaloSat was deployed into orbit on July 13, 2018 and collected science data from October 15, 2018, until September 29, 2020. HaloSat reentered Earth's atmosphere on January 4, 2021. To trace the Galactic halo, HaloSat is equipped with a non-focusing instrument, comprised of three independent silicon drift detectors (SDD14, SDD38, SDD54) operating in the energy range of 0.4 - 7.0 keV with a field of view of 10 deg in diameter and an energy resolution of 84.8 +/- 2.7 eV at 677 eV and 137.4 +/- 0.9 eV at 5895 eV. The HaloSat data are divided by specific positions in the sky and labeled with a number, the sequence number. Each sequence number contains all data for a specific sky position collected during the HaloSat operations therefore each observation contains time intervals that may be apart day, week or months. This database table instead has in each record the start and stop times of one uninterrupted time interval of good data for a specific detector. This table therefore enables searches of the HaloSat data for a specific time event detected by different obsevatories. The contents of this database table are generated at the HEASARC using information from the data files. The table was created in April 2023. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
This database table contains information from the HEAO 1 A3 MC LASS Catalog of X-ray Sources. The MC experiment contained two four-grid modulation collimators with an egg-crate collimator with an overall FOV of 4 x 4 degrees (FWHM). The objects in the catalog are possible HEAO 1 A1 sources. The HEAO 1 experiment began on day 224, 19 August 1977 and ended on day 739, 9 January 1979. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
The HEAO 1 A-2 Pointing Catalog of High-Energy X-ray Sources is the result of a study of selected targets using the three detectors of the A-2 Experiment. The detectors consisted of the HED (high energy detector) in the range 3-6 KeV, the MED (medium energy detector) in the range 1.5-15 KeV, and the LED (low energy detector) in the range 0.15-3 KeV. The HEAO A-2 Experiment was primarily designed for studying the diffuse X-ray background; however, it was also capable of studying point sources to good sensitivity. Thus, after several months of continuous scanning to survey 95% of the diffuse X-ray sky, the A-2 detectors began individual pointings at selected targets. The point maneuvers began on day 319, 15 November 1977 and ended on day 739, 9 January 1979. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
This table records high-level information for the observations obtained with Hitomi and provides access to the data archive. The Hitomi mission was launched on a JAXA H-IIA into low Earth orbit on February 17, 2016, at 5:45 pm JPS from Tanegashima Space Center. Hitomi was equipped with four different instruments that together cover a wide energy range 0.3-600 keV. The Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS), which combined a lightweight Soft X-ray Telescope paired with a X-ray Calorimeter Spectrometer, provided non-dispersive 7-eV resolution in the 0.3-10 keV bandpass with a field of view of about 3 arcminutes. The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) expanded the field of view with a new generation CCD camera in the energy range of 0.5-12 keV at the focus of the second lightweights Soft X-ray Telescope; the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI, two units) performed sensitive imaging spectroscopy in the 5-80 keV band; the non-imaging Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD, two units) extended Hitomi's energy band to 600 keV. On March 27, 2016, JAXA lost contact with the satellite and, on April 28, announced the cessation of the efforts to restore mission operations. At that time Hitomi was in check-out phase and had started the calibration observations. Data were collected from six celestial objects (Perseus, N132D, IGR_J16318-4848, RXJ1856.5-3754, G21.5-0.9, and Crab) as well as black sky for a total of about one month of data. The data from these observations were divided into intervals of one day if the observation of a specific pointing was longer that one day. A sequence number was assigned to each observing day and within data from all instruments are included. The day division was mainly to limit the data size within a sequence number. There are in total 42 sequences, and each record in this database table is dedicated to a single sequence. The early observations do not contain data from all instruments and in cases the object was not always placed at the aim point. This database contains parameters to indicate which instrument was on and if the celestial source was in the field of view. The SXS was the first instrument to turn on and therefore all observations contain SXS data, although the thermal equilibrium was reached after March 4 2016. The second instrument was the SXI followed by the HXIs and, finally, the two SGDs. This database table was generated at the Hitomi Science Data Center processing site (Angelini, L., Terada, Y, et al., 2016, SPIE 9905E, 14) with additions to indicate which instrument was on and if the source was in the FOV. It was ingested into the HEASARC database in June 2017. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
This is the HST Planned and Archived Exposures Catalog (PAEC) as obtained from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Archive which created the original compilation from their Archive and Proposal databases. This database table provides a summary of all approved HST observations, including already completed observations and those which are planned to be executed as part of the current cycle or are reserved for execution by Guaranteed Time Observer (GTO) programs for the upcoming cycles. This database table provides a summary of both planned and completed HST observations. Much more information can be obtained about each exposure, and the data themselves can be retrieved, using STScI's Multimission Archive (URL is <a href="http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/">http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/</a>) or STScI's Archive Web Interface (URL is <a href="http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/search.php">http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/search.php</a>). Note that a number of solar system and other objects have 0 values for their 2000 equinox RA and declination coordinates in the original HST table and hence also in this HEASARC database. This HEASARC version of the HSTPAEC will be updated on a regular basis, usually within one month of the data files on the STScI Web site (URL <a href="http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/paec.html">http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/paec.html</a>) being updated. This database table is recreated by the HEASARC on a routine basis, usually within one month of the PAEC data files at the STScI Hubble Data Archive (HDA) being modified. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
