- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/vhsDR4-dsa
- Title:
- VHS DR4 - VISTA Hemisphere Survey Data Release 4
- Date:
- 23 Jan 2024 09:46:50
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The VHS will image the entire ~20 000 square degrees of the Southern Sky, with the exception of the areas already covered by the VIKING and VVV surveys, in J and Ks. The resulting data will be about 4 magnitudes deeper than 2MASS and DENIS. The 5000 square degrees covered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), another imaging survey scheduled to begin in 2010 at the CTIO 4 metre Blanco telescope, will also be observed in H-band. The area around both of the Galactic Caps will be observed in Y- and H- band as well to be combined with the data from the VST ATLAS survey. The main science drivers of the VHS include: examining low mass and nearby stars, studying the merger history of the Galaxy, measuring the properties of Dark Energy through the examination of large-scale structure to a redshift of ~1, and searches for high redshift quasars.
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- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/uhsDR2-dsa
- Title:
- UHS DR2 - UKIRT Hemisphere Survey Data Release 2
- Date:
- 23 Jan 2024 09:45:50
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- This DSA hosts data release 2 of the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey housed at the Wide Field Astronomy Unit at the Univeristy of Edinburgh. The UHS provides continuous J and K-band coverage in the northern hemisphere from a declination of 0 deg to 60 deg.
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/twompz-dsa
- Title:
- 2MASS Photometric Redshift catalogue (2MPZ)
- Date:
- 23 Jan 2024 09:45:12
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The 2MASS Photometric Redshift catalogue (2MPZ) is constructed by cross-matching 2MASS XSC, WISE and SuperCOSMOS all-sky samples and employing the artificial neural network approach (the ANNz algorithm, Collister & Lahav 2004), trained on several redshift surveys (2MRS, SDSS, 6dFGS, 2dFGRS and ZCAT). The derived photometric redshifts have errors nearly independent of distance, with an all-sky accuracy of Ïz = 0.015, and a very small percentage of outliers. These redshift estimates have a typical precision of 12% for all the 2MASS XSC galaxies that lack spectroscopy. The resulting 2MPZ sample contains almost 1 million galaxies with a median redshift of z=0.07. This catalogue is described in Bilicki et al. 2014, ApJS, 210, 9.
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa
- Title:
- SuperCOSMOS Science Archive (SSA)
- Short Name:
- SuperCOSMOS
- Date:
- 23 Jan 2024 09:44:26
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The SuperCOSMOS data held in the SSA primarily originate from scans of Palomar and UK Schmidt blue, red and near-IR southern sky surveys. The ESO Schmidt R (dec < -17.5) and Palomar POSS-I E (dec > -17.5) surveys have also been scanned and provide a 1st epoch red measurement. Further details on the surveys, the scanning process and the raw parameters extracted can be found on the further information link. The SSA is housed in a relational database running on Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Data are stored in tables which are inter-linked via reference ID numbers. In addition to the astronomical object catalogues these tables also contain information on the plates that were scanned, survey field centres and calibration coefficients. Most user science queries will only need to access the SOURCE table or to a lesser extent the DETECTION table.
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/pssa-dsa
- Title:
- Personal SuperCOSMOS Science Archive (SSA)
- Date:
- 23 Jan 2024 09:43:50
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- Small subset of the SuperCOSMOS Science Archive, useful for testing queries. The SuperCOSMOS data held in the SSA primarily originate from scans of Palomar and UK Schmidt blue, red and near-IR southern sky surveys. The ESO Schmidt R (dec < -17.5) and Palomar POSS-I E (dec > -17.5) surveys have also been scanned and provide a 1st epoch red measurement. Further details on the surveys, the scanning process and the raw parameters extracted can be found on the further information link. The SSA is housed in a relational database running on Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Data are stored in tables which are inter-linked via reference ID numbers. In addition to the astronomical object catalogues these tables also contain information on the plates that were scanned, survey field centres and calibration coefficients. Most user science queries will only need to access the SOURCE table or to a lesser extent the DETECTION table.
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/galexgr6-dsa
- Title:
- GALEX Release 6
- Date:
- 23 Jan 2024 09:43:10
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite is a NASA mission led by the California Institute of Technology to investigate how star formation in galaxies evolved from the early Universe up to the present. GALEX uses microchannel plate detectors to obtain direct images in the near-UV (NUV) and far-UV (FUV) and a grism to disperse light for low resolution spectroscopy
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/atlasDR1-dsa
- Title:
- ATLAS DR1 - VST ATLAS Survey
- Date:
- 23 Jan 2024 09:42:24
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- This DSA hosts data release 1 of the ATLAS Survey housed at the Wide Field Astronomy Unit at the Univeristy of Edinburgh. The initial aim of ATLAS is to survey 4500 deg2 of the Southern Sky at high galactic latitudes to comparable depths to the SDSS in the North. The VST ATLAS will be the first step towards a panoramic digital survey of the Southern Sky in the optical bands. The ATLAS will complement the proposed VISTA Hemisphere Survey in the South.
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/6df-dsa
- Title:
- 6dF Galaxy Survey Data Release 2
- Short Name:
- 6dF DR2
- Date:
- 23 Jan 2024 09:39:52
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) aims to measure the redshifts of around 150 000 galaxies, and the peculiar velocities of a 15 000-member subsample, over almost the entire southern sky. The table called Spectra contains the redshifts and qualities of all the observations. When complete, it will be the largest redshift survey of the nearby Universe, reaching out to about z ~ 0.15, and more than an order of magnitude larger than any peculiar velocity survey to date. The targets are all galaxies brighter than K tot = 12.75 in the 2MASS Extended Source Catalog (XSC), supplemented by 2MASS and SuperCOSMOS galaxies that complete the sample to limits of (H, J , r F, bJ) = (13.05, 13.75, 15.6, 16.75).
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/6dfdr3-dsa
- Title:
- 6dF Galaxy Survey Data Release 3
- Short Name:
- 6dF DR3
- Date:
- 23 Jan 2024 09:38:59
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) aims to measure the redshifts of around 150 000 galaxies, and the peculiar velocities of a 15 000-member subsample, over almost the entire southern sky. The table called Spectra contains the redshifts and qualities of all the observations. When complete, it will be the largest redshift survey of the nearby Universe, reaching out to about z ~ 0.15, and more than an order of magnitude larger than any peculiar velocity survey to date. The targets are all galaxies brighter than K tot = 12.75 in the 2MASS Extended Source Catalog (XSC), supplemented by 2MASS and SuperCOSMOS galaxies that complete the sample to limits of (H, J , r F, bJ) = (13.05, 13.75, 15.6, 16.75). This is the Data Release 3 version.
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/xmm_dsa
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue (2XMM)
- Short Name:
- 2XMM
- Date:
- 23 Jan 2024 09:36:54
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- XMM is the second comprehensive catalogue of serendipitous X-ray sources from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton observatory. The 2XMM catalogue is the largest X-ray source catalogue ever produced, containing almost twice as many discrete sources as either the ROSAT survey or pointed catalogues. 2XMM complements deeper Chandra and XMM-Newton small area surveys, probing a much larger sky area.