- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/gingaasmlc
- Title:
- Ginga ASM Source Lightcurves
- Short Name:
- GINGAASMLC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The GINGAASMLC database table contains information derived from the FITS lightcurves obtained with the ASM on board the Ginga mission. The lightcurves are rates as function of time, and they can be used with the general FITS tools within HEAsoft or XRONOS. The FITS lightcurves are a copy of the GINGA ASM lightcurves hosted at the DARTS archive at ISAS (<a href="https://darts.isas.jaxa.jp/astro/ginga/">https://darts.isas.jaxa.jp/astro/ginga/</a>). The plots in GIF format were generated by the HEASARC. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/gingabgd
- Title:
- GingaBackgroundLightcurves&Spectra
- Short Name:
- GINGABGD
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The GINGABGD database table contains a summary of the contents of the Ginga pointed observations of (nominally empty) background fields. 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 GINGABGD 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 as part of archive exchange between data centers to facilitate the data transfer across the Atlantic. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
363. Ginga LAC Log
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/gingalog
- Title:
- Ginga LAC Log
- Short Name:
- GINGA
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- 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 .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/gingamode
- Title:
- Ginga LAC Mode Catalog
- Short Name:
- GINGAMODE
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- 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 .
365. Ginga LAC Raw Data
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/gingaraw
- Title:
- Ginga LAC Raw Data
- Short Name:
- GINGARAW
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- 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 .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/gingalac
- Title:
- GingaSourceLightcurves&Spectra
- Short Name:
- GINGALAC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- 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 .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/cns3
- Title:
- Gliese Catalog of Nearby Stars, 3rd Edition
- Short Name:
- CNS3
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The CNS3 catalog contains all known stars as of 1991 that are within 25 parsecs of the Sun. It depends mainly on a preliminary version (Spring 1989) of the new General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes (YPC) prepared by Dr. William F. van Altena (Yale University). The catalog contains every then-known star with a trigonometric parallax greater than or equal to 0.0390 arcsec, even though it may be evident from photometry or for other reasons that the star has a larger distance. For red dwarf stars, new color-magnitude calibrations for broad-band colors were carried out and applied. For white dwarfs, the recipes of McCook and Sion in ApJS, 65, 603 (1987) were applied. Stroemgren photometry was used (not yet systematically) for early-type stars and for late dwarfs, the latter supplied by E. H. Olsen from Copenhagen Observatory (private communication). In contrast to the CNS2 (Gliese 1969) catalog, trigonometric parallaxes and photometric or spectroscopic parallaxes were not combined in this version. The resulting parallax in the present version is the trigonometric parallax if the relative error of the trigonometric parallax is smaller than 14 percent. The parallax may be the photometric or spectroscopic parallax only if no trigonometric parallax is available or if the standard error of the trigonometric parallax is considerably larger. The original catalog and the notes describing it were prepared by Wilhelm Gliese and Hartmut Jahreiss, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, D-6900 Heidelberg 1, Germany, in 1991. The CDS has made a number of formatting and documentation changes in the period 1994-1997, e.g., in December 1997 it added a running number to the name for 1388 stars which had all been given the same name of "NN" in the original version, starting with "NN 3001" (for the first "NN" star in order of 1950 RA), and ending with "NN 4388" (for the last "NN" star in order of 1950 RA). This revised version of the catalog (CDS/ADC Catalog V/70A) was used by the HEASARC to create this database in February 2001. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/gliese2mas
- Title:
- Gliese Catalog Stars with Accurate Coordinates and 2MASS Cross-Identifications
- Short Name:
- GLIESE2MAS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains precise epoch 2000 coordinates and cross-identifications to sources in the 2MASS Point Source Catalog for nearly all stars in the Gliese, Gliese-Jahreiss, and Woolley catalogs of nearby stars. The only Gliese objects where the authors were not successful are two Gliese sources that are actually QSOs; two proposed companions to brighter stars, which they believe do not exist; four stars included in one of the catalogs but identified there as only optical companions; one probable plate flaw; and two stars that simply remain unrecovered. For the 4251 recovered stars, 2693 have coordinates based on Hipparcos positions, 1549 have coordinates based on 2MASS data, and 9 have positions from other astrometric sources. All positions have been calculated at epoch 2000 using proper motions from the literature, which are also given here. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2011 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/PASP/122/885">CDS Catalog J/PASP/122/885</a> file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/gcscat
- Title:
- Globular Cluster Systems of Galaxies Catalog
- Short Name:
- GCSCAT
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains a catalog of 422 galaxies with published measurements of their globular cluster (GC) populations. Of these, 248 are E galaxies, 93 are S0 galaxies, and 81 are spirals or irregulars. Among various correlations of the total number of GCs with other global galaxy properties, the authors find that the number of globular clusters N<sub>GC</sub> correlates well though nonlinearly with the dynamical mass of the galaxy bulge M<sub>dyn</sub> = 4 sigma _e_<sup>2</sup> R<sub>e</sub>/G, where sigma<sub>e</sub> is the central velocity dispersion and R<sub>e</sub> the effective radius of the galaxy light profile. In their paper, the authors also present updated versions of the GC specific frequency S<sub>N</sub> and specific mass S<sub>M</sub> versus host galaxy luminosity and baryonic mass. These graphs exhibit the previously known U-shape: highest S<sub>N</sub> or S<sub>M</sub> values occur for either dwarfs or supergiants, but in the mid-range of galaxy size (10<sup>9</sup> - 10<sup>10</sup> L<sub>sun</sub>) the GC numbers fall along a well-defined baseline value of S<sub>N</sub> ~= 1 or S<sub>M</sub> = 0.1, similar among all galaxy types. Along with other recent discussions, the authors suggest that this trend may represent the effects of feedback, which systematically inhibited early star formation at either very low or very high galaxy mass, but which had its minimum effect for intermediate masses. Their results strongly reinforce recent proposals that GC formation efficiency appears to be most nearly proportional to the galaxy halo mass M<sub>halo</sub>. The mean "absolute" efficiency ratio for GC formation that the authors derive from the catalog data is M<sub>GCS</sub>/M<sub>halo</sub> = 6 x 10<sup>-5</sup>. They suggest that the galaxy-to-galaxy scatter around this mean value may arise in part because of differences in the relative timing of GC formation versus field-star formation. Finally, they find that an excellent empirical predictor of total GC population for galaxies of all luminosities is N<sub>GC</sub> ~ (R<sub>e</sub> sigma<sub>e</sub>)<sup>1.3</sup>, a result consistent with fundamental plane scaling relations. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2014 based on an electronic version of Table 1 from the reference paper which was obtained from the ApJ web site. A duplicate entry for NGC 4417 was removed in June 2019. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/phebus
- Title:
- Granat Phebus Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Short Name:
- PHEBUS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The PHEBUS database table is the Terekhov et al. (1994, 1995) and Tkachenko et al. (1998, 2002) Catalog of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts Registered by the Phebus (or Phoebus) instrument on-board the GRANAT Observatory which operated from December 1989 to December 1996. One of the purposes of Phebus was to study cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the 100 keV to 100 MeV region of the spectrum. This catalog contains information on GRBs registered during the entire seven years of the mission, such as the energy fluxes observed at the GRB luminosity maxima and the time-integrated energy fluences in the energy range above 100 keV. The details of the Phebus detectors and other operational information, such as the criteria for burst detection, can be found in the Terekhov et al. and Tkachenko et al. papers which are listed in the References Section. The original version of this database table was created by the HEASARC in the late 1990s. Later updates were made in February 2002 and March 2003, based on the HEASARC's transcription of Tables 1 and 2 of Terekhov et al. (1994), Terekhov et al. (1995) and Tkachenko, A.Yu. et al. (1998), and of Table 1 of Tkachenko, A.Yu. et al. (2002). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
