The Kepler Target Search interface provides access to a 12.5 million row table created by MAST by joining entries from the Kepler Input catalog (KIC) with the Kepler Characteristics table (CT) and merging these with "associated" entries from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (IRT) project, the USNOb catalog, GALEX, the Kepler Isaac Newton Telescope Survey (KIS), and the Everett KPNO (UBV) survey. The search interface allows users to find targets within the Kepler field of view (FOV) and allows searches on magnitudes, colors, and other parameters for both KIC and associated non-KIC targets.
This is the recommended interface for potential guest observers to locate possible targets for observation. GO proposers however should check on the target's position by either (or both) looking to one of our posted FFI images and seeing if it is on a chip, and (2) confirming this with the GO office.
Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: A Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel
Short Name:
KINGFISH
Date:
16 Mar 2017 01:00:00
Publisher:
NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
Description:
KINGFISH is an imaging and spectroscopic survey of 61 nearby (d<30 Mpc) galaxies, chosen to cover a wide range of galaxy properties and local interstellar medium (ISM) environments found in the nearby universe. Its broad goals are to characterize the ISM of present-day galaxies, the heating and cooling of their gaseous and dust components, and to better understand the physical processes linking star formation and the ISM.
LABOCA Extended Chandra Deep Field South Submillimetre Survey
Short Name:
CDFS LESS
Date:
28 Jun 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The LABOCA Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS) Submillimetre Survey (LESS)
is a public legacy survey of the ECDFS at 870 μm using the LABOCA camera
(Siringo et al. 2009) on the APEX telescope.
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The LABOCA data presented here were obtained between 2007 May and 2008 November
in excellent conditions using time from both ESO and Max Planck allocations.
The mapping pattern was designed to uniformly cover the 30'x30' extent of the ECDFS,
centered on 03:32:29.0, -27:48:47.0 (J2000).
The project used a total of 310 hrs of observations to achieve a beam-smoothed noise of
1.2 mJy/beam over 900 sq. arcmin (and <1.6mJy/beam over 1260 sq. arcmin).
The flux calibration of the map came from observations of Mars, Uranus and Neptune
(as well as secondary calibrators) and is accurate to within 8.5%. Provenance: Data downloaded from ESO archive. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
The LIFE Target Star Database contains information useful
for the planned `LIFE mission`_ (mid-ir, nulling
interferometer in space). It characterizes possible
target systems including information about stellar,
planetary and disk properties. The data itself is mainly
a collection from different other catalogs.
Note that LIFE's target database is living
data. The content – and to some extent even structure – of these
tables may change at any time without prior warning.
.. _LIFE mission: https://life-space-mission.com/
This table provides an index for a time ordered set of files containing the telemetry from the the DRS system on the LISA Pathfinder mission. It gives the time in a variety of spacecraft modes for each file. Note that not all modes were explored during the LISA Pathfinder mission. The Disturbance Reduction System (DRS) was an experiment package aboard the European Space Agency (ESA) LISA Pathfinder spacecraft. LISA Pathfinder (LPF) launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on December 3, 2015. LPF successfully demonstrated the disturbance-free motion of two test masses at a noise level acceptable for a future gravitational wave (GW) observatory. Designated ST7, DRS is the NASA contribution to LPF with the goal of operating disturbance reduction technology in space applicable to GW missions and other future missions with challenging stability requirements. DRS flew two clusters of four, low-noise, colloid micro-thrusters (eight total) and a computer which implemented drag-free control laws. At specific times during the LPF mission, DRS operated as alternative to the ESA provided thrusters and control laws. The location of the test masses relative to the spacecraft and the attitude of the spacecraft were measured by ESA subsystems and provided to DRS as its sensors. The displacement and attitude of the spacecraft relative to the two test masses was controlled using the colloid thrusters and electrostatic forces on the TMs provided by the LPF systems. The key requirements for DRS were to show that the thrust noise was less than 0.1 micro-N, and the spacecraft position noise was less than 10nm/sqrt( Hz) in the measurement frequency band of 1 to 30 micro-Hz. ST7 also recorded the relative acceleration noise (delta-g) between the two test masses, a key metric for the GW application, but had no requirement did not optimize the delta-g performance because this is primarily dependent on the (ESA) inertial sensor. ST7 executed a primary mission in which the thrust noise of the thrusters and the performance of the drag free control were measured and a short extended mission which was used to optimize the performance and expand the operating range of the thrusters and control laws. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2018 based on data files provided by Jacob Slutsky and Leonid Petrov, which were reformatted from the base files at the LISA Pathfinder archive at ESA. The reformatted data files are available at <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/lpf/data/fits/">https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/lpf/data/fits/</a> with summaries of the instrument mode intervals available in summary files in <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/lpf/data/summ/">https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/lpf/data/summ/</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
This service provides access to and information about the 2MASS All-Sky Atlas Images. Atlas Images delivered by this service are in FITS format and contain full WCS information in their headers. Additionally, the image headers contain photometric zero point information. 2MASS Atlas Images are suitable for quantitative photometric measurements.
This service provides access to and information about the 2MASS All-Sky Quicklook Images. The Quicklook Images delivered by this service are restored from lossy-compressed files in FITS format with full WCS information contained in the image headers. These images are suitable for position measurements, finding charts and visual inspection of the near-infrared sky.
The high sensitivity and angular resolution of the 2MASS Large Galaxy Atlas (LGA) images allows closer inspection of diverse stellar populations, large-scale structures such as spirals, bulges, warps and bars, star formation regions and evolution of galaxies. This image atlas represents the first uniform, all-sky, view of galaxies as seen in the near-infrared wavelength window that is most sensitive to the dominant mass component of galaxies.
These Lockman Hole (LH) data represent a preliminary analysis of the deep 2MASS observations of this region, and are not a product endorsed by the 2MASS project. These data are described in The Astronomical Journal, Volume 125, Issue 5, pp. 2521-2530 "A Deep 2MASS survey of the Lockman Hole" by Beichman et al.