- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/nuaftl
- Title:
- NuSTAR As-Flown Timeline
- Short Name:
- NUAFTL
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The NUAFTL database table records the As-Flown Timeline for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) hard X-ray observatory. NuSTAR observes the sky in the high energy X-ray (3 - 79 keV) region of the electromagnetic spectrum using focusing optics. The as-flown timeline provides a summary of what NuSTAR has observed and is updated automatically when each observation is completed. This HEASARC database table is updated automatically within a day or so of updates to the referenced URL. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/numaster
- Title:
- NuSTAR Master Catalog
- Short Name:
- NUMASTER
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, launched on 2012 June 13, is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit. NuSTAR operates in the band from 3 to 79 keV, extending the sensitivity of focusing instruments far beyond the ~10 keV high-energy cutoff achieved by all previous X-ray satellites. The inherently low background associated with concentrating the X-ray light enables NuSTAR to probe the hard X-ray sky with a more than 100-fold improvement in sensitivity over the collimated or coded mask instruments that have operated in this bandpass. The observatory was placed into a 600-km altitude, 6 degree inclination circular orbit, and consists of two co-aligned grazing-incidence X-ray telescopes pointed at celestial targets by a three-axis stabilized spacecraft. NuSTAR has completed its two-year primary science mission, and, with an expected orbit lifetime of more than 10 years, the opportunity for proposing observations as part of the General Observer (GO) program is now available, with observations beginning in 2015. Using its unprecedented combination of sensitivity and spatial and spectral resolution, NuSTAR offers opportunities for a broad range of science investigations, ranging from probing cosmic ray origins to studying the extreme physics around compact objects to mapping micro-flares on the surface of the Sun. NuSTAR also responds to targets of opportunity including supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. This table contains a list of (a) unobserved targets that are planned or have been accepted for observation by NuSTAR in the future and (b) NuSTAR observations which have been processed and successfully validated by the NuSTAR Science Operation Center. The data from these observations may or may not be public and the user should check the value of the public_date parameter to determine the status of a specified data set. Only those ObsIDs which have a public_date in the past will have data publicly available. Observations with a public_date parameter value which is either blank or a date in the future have been ingested into the HEASARC archive but will remain encrypted until their public date. Entries with the status field set to 'accepted' are targets approved for scheduling, and the planned exposure time given in the exposure_a (and exposure_b) parameter will have a negative value for those targets. This database table is based on information supplied by the NuSTAR Project at Caltech. It is automatically updated on a regular basis. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/dss
- Title:
- Original Digitized Sky Survey
- Short Name:
- DSS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This survey comprises the compressed digitization of the Southern Sky Survey and the Palomar Sky Survey E plates as distributed on CD ROM by the Space Telescope Science Institute. Coverage of the entire sky is included. This survey consists of the digititized Southern Sky Survey conducted at the UK Southern Schmidt Survey Group by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (prior to 1988) and the Anglo-Australian Observatory (since 1988) Additional plates covering regions with bright objects are also included. The plates were digitized at the Space Telescope Science Institute and compressed using algorithms developed by R.White. These data are distributed on a set of 101 CD-ROMs. <P> The following data are included: <DL> <DT>Southern hemisphere <DD> SERC Southern Sky Survey and the SERC J Equatorial extension. These are typically deep, 3600s, IIIa-J exposures with a GG395 filter. Also included are 94 short (1200s) V exposures typically at Galactic latitudes below 15&#176;;. Special exposures are included in the regions of the Magellenic clouds. <DT>Northern hemisphere <dd> The northern hemisphere is covered by 644 plates from the POSS E survey. A special exposure of the M31 region that is distributed on the CD ROMs is not used in <i> SkyView </i>. </DL> Provenance: Data taken by ROE and AAO, CalTech, Compression and distribution by Space Telescope Science Institute.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/oso8alc
- Title:
- OSO8 A Detector Lightcurves
- Short Name:
- OSO8ALC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This database accesses the FITS lightcurves obtained from the A detector part of the GSFC Cosmic X-ray Spectroscopy experiment (GCXSE) on board OSO8. The Orbiting Solar Observatory-I (OSO-8) was launched on 21 June 1975 into a 550 km circular orbit at 33 degrees inclination. While the primary objectives of the mission were solar in nature, there were 3 detectors (the GCXSE detectors A, B and C) which had exclusively non-solar objectives. The energy band was 2-60 keV for the A and C detector and 2-20 keV for the B detector. The spacecraft structure consisted of a rotating cylindrical base section called the "wheel" and a non-spinning upper section called the "sail". The GCXSE detectors were mounted in the rotating wheel and their fields-of-view were either aligned to the spin axis (B and C) or at small angles to it (A), hence they always viewed the portion of the sky at right angles to the earth-sun line. The GCXSE detectors obtained data until late September 1978. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/oso8bclc
- Title:
- OSO8B&CDetectorLightcurves
- Short Name:
- OSO8BCLC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- OSO8 B&C Detector Lightcurves This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
146. OSO8 GCXSE Raw PHA
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/oso8pharaw
- Title:
- OSO8 GCXSE Raw PHA
- Short Name:
- OSO8PHARAW
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Orbiting Solar Observatory-I (OSO-8) was launched on 21 June 1975 into a 550 km circular orbit at 33 degrees inclination. Data were obtained from the mission until late September 1978. The spacecraft structure consisted of a rotating cylindrical base section called the "wheel" and a non-spinning upper section called the "sail". While the primary objectives of the mission were solar in nature, there were 3 detectors, the GSFC Cosmic X-ray Spectroscopy experiments (GCXSE detectors A, B, and C), mounted in the rotating wheel which had exclusively non-solar objectives. Their fields-of-view were either aligned to the spin axis or at small angles to it, hence they always view the portion of the sky at right angles to the earth-sun line. This database accesses the pha FITS datafiles for the A, B, and C GCXSE detectors. Data was accumulated every quarter of a rotation period (~2.56 s) for the A detector and every 40.96 s for the B and C detectors in the 2-60 keV energy band. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
147. OSO8 GCXSE Raw Rates
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/oso8rtraw
- Title:
- OSO8 GCXSE Raw Rates
- Short Name:
- OSO8RTRAW
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Orbiting Solar Observatory-I (OSO-8) was launched on 21 June 1975 into a 550 km circular orbit at 33 degrees inclination. Data were obtained from the mission until late September 1978. The spacecraft structure consisted of a rotating cylindrical base section called the "wheel" and a non-spinning upper section called the "sail". While the primary objectives of the mission were solar in nature, there were 3 detectors, the GSFC Cosmic X-ray Spectroscopy experiments (GCXSE detectors A, B and C), mounted in the rotating wheel which had exclusively non-solar objectives. Their fields-of-view were either aligned to the spin axis or at small angles to it, hence they always view the portion of the sky at right angles to the earth-sun line. This database accesses the raw rates FITS datafile for the A, B and C GCXSE detectors, accumulated every 160 ms in the 2-60 keV energy band. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/planck030
- Title:
- Planck 030 GHz Survey
- Short Name:
- Planck030
- Date:
- 03 Dec 2018
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- Planck is ESA's third generation space based cosmic microwave background experiment, operating at nine frequencies between 30 and 857 GHz and was launched May 2009. Planck provides all-sky survey data at all nine frequencies with higher resolution at the 6 higher frequencies. It provides substantially higher resolution and sensitivity than WMAP. Planck orbits in the L2 Lagrange point. These data come from Release 1 of the Planck mission. <p> The original data are stored in HEALPix pixels. SkyView treats HEALPix as a standard projection but assumes that the HEALPix data is in a projection plane with a rotation of -45 degrees. The rotation transforms the HEALPix pixels from diamonds to squares so that the boundaries of the pixels are treated properly. The special HealPixImage class is used so that SkyView can use the HEALPix FITS files directly. The HealPixImage simulates a rectangular image but translates the pixels from that image to the nested HEALPix structure that is used by the HEALPix data. Users of the SkyView Jar will be able to access this survey through the web but performance may be poor since the FITS files are 150 to 600 MB in size and must be completely read in. SkyView will not automatically cache these files on the user machine as is done for non-HEALPix surveys. </p> Data from the frequencies of 100 GHz or higher are stored in a HEALPix file with a resolution of approximately 1.7' while lower frequencies are stored with half that resolution, approximately 3.4'.
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/planck857i
- Title:
- Planck 857 GHz Survey: I
- Short Name:
- Planck857I
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- Planck is ESA's third generation space based cosmic microwave background experiment, operating at nine frequencies between 30 and 857 GHz and was launched May 2009. Planck provides all-sky survey data at all nine frequencies with higher resolution at the 6 higher frequencies. It provides substantially higher resolution and sensitivity than WMAP. Planck orbits in the L2 Lagrange point. <p> These data come from the legacy Release 3 of the Planck mission. <p> These products include polarization information available to visualize in several ways. The data contain Stokes parameters I, Q, and U, and in addition to these, it is possible to visualize the polarized intensity PI=sqrt(Q^2+U^2) and the polarization angle PA=1/2atan(U/Q). Note that at their native resolution of a few arcmin (depending on the frequency), these polarization data will appear very noisy. In order to visualize the polarization information, it is highly recommended that the data be resampled with the "Clip (intensive)" sampler and the result smoothed. That sampler will average all the data points within a given output pixel rather than the more common nearest neighbor. It will do this averaging before computing either PI or PA to reduce the effects of the noise. This sampler is set as the default for this survey. If the output pixel resolution is not significantly larger than the resolution, a smoothing of the output pixels will also be necessary. <p> Note also that Q and U are defined relative to a given co-ordinate system, in this case Galactic, and following the CMB convention (not the IAU); see https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/about/pol_convention.cfm. This means that they will appear to vary rapidly near the pole of that coordinate system. The PI and PA will be computed correctly for any position on the sky. <p> The original data are stored in HEALPix pixels. SkyView treats HEALPix as a standard projection but assumes that the HEALPix data is in a projection plane with a rotation of -45 degrees. The rotation transforms the HEALPix pixels from diamonds to squares so that the boundaries of the pixels are treated properly. The special HealPixImage class is used so that SkyView can use the HEALPix FITS files directly. The HealPixImage simulates a rectangular image but translates the pixels from that image to the nested HEALPix structure that is used by the HEALPix data. Users of the SkyView Jar will be able to access this survey through the web but performance may be poor since the FITS files are 150 to 600 MB in size and must be completely read in. SkyView will not automatically cache these files on the user machine as is done for non-HEALPix surveys. </p> Data from the frequencies of 100 GHz or higher are stored in a HEALPix file with a resolution of approximately 1.7' while lower frequencies are stored with half that resolution, approximately 3.4'. Provenance: Data split using skyview.survey.HealPixSplitter from the PR3 distriuted by the Planck Science team.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/pspc1
- Title:
- PSPC summed pointed observations, 1 degree cutoff, Intensity
- Short Name:
- PSPC1
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The ROSAT PSPC surveys were generated by <i> SkyView </i> as mosaics from publically available PSPC observations. The surveys include all data available through March 1, 1997. This includes the vast majority of ROSAT PSPC observations. Filter observations and observations taken during the verification phase in 1991 were not included in either set. The details of the generation of the surveys are discussed in a <a href="https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/help/pspc_generation.html"> companion document</a>. Basically the counts and exposure from all observations were added and then an intensity map was generated as the ratio of the two. <p> The smaller cut-offs allow users to distinguish point sources in fields where a bright source may have been towards the edge of one observation and near the center of another. In these cases the source appears fuzzy due to the poor resolution of ROSAT near the edge of the field of view. This comes at the cost of a substantial reduction in the fraction of the sky covered. Counts and exposure maps are included for users who may need this information (<i>e.g.</i>, to do statistical analysis). <p> The global organization of the surveys is similar to the IRAS survey. Each map covers an area of 2.5&#176;;x2.5&#176;; with a minimum overlap of 0.25&#176;;. To cover the entire sky would require over 10,000 maps. However due to lack of coverage only approximately 4000-6000 maps are actually populated. Users asking for reqions where there is no ROSAT coverage may get a blank region returned. <p> Detailed information regarding the creation of the ROSAT suveys can be found in the <a href="https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/help/pspc_generation.html"> ROSAT PSPC Generation Document</a>. Provenance: Observational data from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, mosaicking of images done by <i>SkyView</i>.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
