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1. GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 NENA ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 Q User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 12of 14 4 3 Query Results lf you choose Search amp View the results are displayed on the query results page for inspection once the query is executed Figure 7 It shows the query constraints in the top panel the number of records found i e matching the constraints with respect to the total number of catalogue records out of X In the lower panel the data is displayed in tabular form The viewer allows arranging the columns interactively sorting the data according to one column and applying a filter to display a subset of the data Note that the tabular view is limited to a maximum of 1000 records It means the displayed data is truncated to the top 1000 records if the result set exceeds 1000 records but the data for download is not From the query results page the user may trigger one of the following operations New Query Modify query or Download 4 4 Data Download The catalogue data is stored in a dedicated data base system from which the download data is extracted on request according to the user specified constraints and output format Pushing the Download button see Figure 7 will start the download process of the query result set to your computer The resulting file contains as many records as listed under records found it is not subject to the limit of 1000 records You can choose the download data form2. 4 2 1 Sorting and query performance sennsnnseneenrernorrrrrnrrrrrorrnrrrsrrerrorrorrrsrrnrenrrnnererrerrrrrnne 11 43 Quen RES EE 12 44 AAAI OW MOA EE 12 5 Requesting the entire catalogue anno ann nnnnnnno anne nun nenn anne nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnsnnnennnnen 13 ACKNOWIEOGENEN EE 14 ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 NENA ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 Q User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 4of 14 1 Overview The ESO Catalogue Facility provides access to the astronomical source catalogues and other scientific data in tabular format that is being ingested into the ESO science archive through the Phase 3 process It is designed to serve the catalogue data resulting from the ESO Public Surveys and other ESO observing programmes including multi colour photometric source catalogues multi epoch photometry a k a light curves catalogues of variables proper motion catalogues target catalogues for spectroscopic surveys galaxy redshift catalogues catalogues of stellar properties and chemical abundances The Catalogue Facility developed by ESO s Software Development Division complements the existing functionalities of the ESO Science Archive Facility by adding the capability to query each catalogue by content using positional and non positional constraints and finally to download the resulting data set for further scientific analysis To this end
3. KS AUTO 18 24 mag Ks auto magnitude AB ty detection image A SOURCE ID UltraVISTA source designation DR1 v A NUMBER Running object number Figure 6 Specifying a range constraint on the Ks magnitude 4 2 1 Sorting and query performance You can click on one of the UP DOWN arrows on the left hand side of the query form to obtain a sorted result set with respect to the respective catalogue parameter in ascending or descending order Figure 6 The UP DOWN arrow indicates at the same time that queries on the respective parameter are optimized for best performance It means that queries including conditions on these parameters execute in a short time which enables for instance colour interval selection even on very large catalogues in an efficient way Note that any other parameter can be constraint as well with a lower efficiency however meaning that queries will take more time for execution and you need to wait longer until the results are returned Large catalogues have up to 15 indexed columns which are set up at the time of data ingestion according to the PI Co l s input Therefore Phase 3 data providers are asked to flag the catalogue columns which are considered most important from the scientific point of view for the purpose of searching and subset definition S Technically an optimized database index has been defined for this parameter ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc
4. NUMBER Running object number meta id v A ALPHA_J2000 deg Right ascension of barycenter pos eq ra meta main in decimal degrees J2000 a DELTA_J2000 deg Declination of barycenter in pos eq dec meta main decimal degrees J2000 A XS IMAGE pixel Object position along x pos cartesian x v a Y_IMAGE pixel Object position along y pos cartesian y v A FLAG_HJMCC Bad region flag 0 for bad meta code region field boundaries 1 a EBV mag Galactic reddening E B V phys absorption gal based on Schlegel et al 1998 F dust maps A Y_APER2 mag Y fixed aperture magnitude phot mag em IR 2 AB L A Y_APER2_ERR mag AB aperture mag error stat error phot mag em IR A Y_APER7 mag Y fixed aperture magnitude phot mag em IR 7 AB v a Y_APER7_ERR mag AB aperture mag error stat error phot mag em IR z a Y_AUTO mag Y auto magnitude AB phot mag em IR v Y_AUTO_ERR mag Y auto mag error AB stat error phot mag em IR v a Y_FLUX_RADIUS pixel Radius of aperture containing _instr obsty seeing em IR half the flux of Y_MAG_AUTO A Y_FLAG Y Flag sextractor meta code phot mag em IR Figure 4 An example of the catalogue query form 4 Catalogue Queries Querying the catalogue data using positional and non positional constraints and downloading the resulting data set for further scientific analysis are key functionalities provided by the system Having pressed the Query button on the main page the query form for the selected catalog
5. include obsolete versions to get access to those obsolete data for which a more recent release version exists This function will be effective once DR2 catalogue data will have been ingested presumably taking place in 2013 for ESO VISTA public surveys After having identified the catalogue of interest by clicking the appropriate SELECT button in the left column you continue with the next operations either Query or Request The UCD1 controlled vocabulary Version 1 23 IVOA Recommendation 02 April 2007 http www ivoa net Documents latest UCDlist html ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 ES ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 Q User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 8o of14 Press the Query button to search the catalogue based on your criteria and download the resulting data set Or Request the selected catalogue in its entirety for download from the ESO archive er Portal Contact Site Map Search D co gt ESO Catalogue Facility Joerg Retzlaff Logout Deep Ultra Deep Near Infrared Catalogue of the COSMOS Field Release 1 Date 2012 09 24 Details Search by position Single Target List of Targets Target aztec3 J2000 Size 2 arcmin Cone _ Box Search amp Download in FITS format di Constraints per column se EE E unt Description uco TTT a SOURCE_ID UltraVISTA source meta id meta main designation DR1 r a
6. the catalogue data is stored in a dedicated data base system from which the download data is extracted on request according to the constraints and output format specified by the user The typical workflow using the Catalogue Facility consists of the following steps 1 Choose the catalogue of interest 2 Define the query constraints 3 Execute the query SEARCH 4 Review the query result 5 Refine the query constraints and repeat the search if needed 6 Download the catalogue data set resulting from the query Figure 1 ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 5of 14 Search amp Download Search amp View New Modify Query Figure 1 Illustration of the typical workflow using the Catalogue Facility 1 1 List of Features Release version number 1 1 6 ofthe ESO Catalogue Facility Date 02 10 2012 implements the following features e Browse the available list of catalogues e Inspect the catalogue content metadata e Select the catalogue of interest e Find catalogues by name e Find catalogues by content employing the Unified Content Descriptor vocabulary recommended by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance e Search by position o J2000 coordinates HMS DMS decimal degree o Automatic target name resolution by Sesame CDS o Support for galactic coordinates decimal degree o Multi target s
7. 090 ESO Catalogue Facility a 4 gt www eso org Reade oj Souhem a gt O ESO Catalogue Facility Observatory ESO Reaching New Heights in Astronomy wg 2 iS I EZE User Portal Contact Site Map Search EEE Go ESO Archive gt ESO Data gt ESO Catalogue Facility Joerg Retzlaff Logout ESO Data The catalogue facility provides access to the collection of catalogue data that were produced by Pls of ESO programmes and then integrated into the ESO science archive through the Phase 3 process PI Packages Pi Packages Find catalogues by Ambient Conditions Database Title cosmos Content include obsolete versions ESO Catalogue Facility title like cosmos 1 catalogues found out of 2 SELECT TITLE RELEASE PUBLICATION DATE Lei Deep Ultra Deep Near Infrared Catalogue of the COSMOS Field 1 2012 09 24 Pa Search the contents ofthe selected catalogue based on your own criteria and download the resulting data set p ESO Catalogue Facility 1 1 6 ESO Send us your comments Subscribe to Newsletter Privacy Statement d Figure 2 ESO Catalogue Facility entry page 3 Choosing the catalogue of interest The main page Figure 2 provides an overview of all available catalogues once successfully ingested into the ESO Archive via the Phase 3 The table displays title release number and Phase 3 publication date for each catalogue 3 1 Displaying information about catalogues Click on the title to ge
8. European Organisation Organisation Europ enne Europ ische Organisation for Astronomical pour des Recherches f r astronomische Research in the Astronomiques Forschung in der Southern Hemisphere dans I Hemisphere Austral sudlichen Hemisphare Data Management and Operations Division Phase 3 User Documentation ESO Catalogue Facility User Manual Doc No GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 Issue 1 Date 30 11 2012 Prepared J Retzlaff Name Date Signature Approved M Arnaboldi Name Date Signature Released M Romaniello Name Date Signature ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 Sy ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 2of 14 CHANGE RECORD ISSUE DATE SECTION PARA REASON INITIATION AFFECTED DOCUMENTS REMARKS f ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 NENA ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 Q User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 3of 14 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 e 4 1 1 BC eg TI 5 2 Getting En 6 3 Choosing the catalogue of mterest nenne anne nenne nano nnnennnnennnennnennnnennnenenennnnennnenenenenne 6 3 1 Displaying information about Catalogues 6 8 2 ele Tute e 616 EE T 3 3 Accessing previous versions u na ae nenne T 4 Catalogue QUETES EE 8 4 ern Dy POSION EE 9 4 1 1 Target name E E e EE 9 4 12 CECO Ee EE 9 AZ Constanti DSN COMM WN EE 10
9. Variable Star 10 45 83 591 tab 59 41 04 26 eta car The strings Variable Star and eta car will then get added to the query results in the first column named comm The queries are processed successively in the order of the input list and the results are also ordered by target as defined in the input list Single Target List of Targets List of targets Choose File 7 targetlist txt line target ra dec warnings errors 1 149 746445 2 084534 D 2 150 620071 2 671362 J 3 149 986237 1 759985 J 150 737183 2 722552 J 5 150 297272 2 148810 D 6 150 208878 2 481889 N Size 2 arcmin Cone Lei Box Search amp View Search amp Download in FITS format 0 0 0 0 0 n o Figure 5 Example for the search by list of targets 4 2 Constraint per column A flexible and powerful way for defining subsets of catalogue data according to your science case is provided by constraint qualification per catalogue column Figure 6 To this end the ASU syntax cf Astronomical Server URL is employed Within an ASU expression the parameter is implicit because it is given by the context Table 1 Examples of search constraint expressions Description K Matches values equal to 5 default operator for numbers 5 5 5 Matches values less than or equal to 5 Fe 1 Mases vaes ohera 10 Range operator matches values between 1 and 10 Note the spaces around the operator Matches values other than 10 Matches ABC
10. at to be FITS binary table CSV ASCII comma separated values TSV ASCII tab separated values VOTABLE or HTML Note that the arrangement of columns in the tabular viewer applies to the download Therefore remember to pull the red bar in the Columns panel below the last line to ensure that all columns are included in the downloaded result set The downloaded data is sorted according to the column parameter selected for sorting in the query form if any The filter in the tabular viewer does not apply to the downloaded data ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 13 0f14 SiteMap Search TE co O BP 8 Cc Ku Di 9 E Joerg Retzlaff Logout Deep Ultra Deep Near Infrared Catalogue of the COSMOS Field Release 1 Date 2012 09 24 Details Query constraints Input Target aztec3 Resolved into RA J2000 150 0 10 00 20 700 Dec J2000 2 5 02 35 21 59 Cone size 2 arcmin Modify Query Query Results 759 records found out of 331077 Lr FITS Format Ve Elapsed time 0 808 s Results 81 90 of 759sorted by KS_APER2 Show 10 results per page d Previous 1 678910 11 12 76 Next d Text boxes under columns select matching rows Clear Filter NUMBER Y_APER2 J_APER2 H_APER2 KS_APER2A KS_AUTO KS_FLAG NB118_APER2 J gt Number Number Number Number Number Numb
11. conds are optional for RA and Declination respectively Examples of valid target coordinate input J2000 158 1 2 2 10 00 24 02 12 18 00 24 02 12 18 88 02 12 11 9 25 3 08 47 36 25 18 00 Galactic coordinates longitude latitude should be specified in decimal degree 4 1 1 Target name resolution If the target input does not represent a valid pair of coordinates according to the format defined above the Sesame name resolver at Centre de Donn es astronomiques de Strasbourg CDS is employed and the resulting coordinates are used 4 1 2 List of Targets Press the Choose File button to load an input file containing the list of targets having the following format The file contains one target per line The target can be expressed either as a name to be resolved by Sesame or a pair of tab separated J2000 coordinates Blank lines are ignored as well as lines starting with a hash The user might use that feature to include comments into the input file Comments may contain HTML tags Optionally a hash may be added after the target information followed by any text comment These information will be propagated to the query results in the form of an additional table column named comm ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 ES ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 Q User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 10of 14 Here are some examples HD 93308
12. default operator for strings ABC ABC Matches any string beginning with ABC is the wildcard character Matches ABC ABc AbC aBC abC abc independent of character case Matches any string not beginning with abc not equal Matches ABC exact string match no wildcards Range operator for strings Note the spaces around the operator S http vizier u strasbg fr doc asu html ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 ES ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 Q User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 11o0of14 abc def Logical OR Matches values greater than aaa zl amp lt 10 Logical AND Strings containing blank characters e g source designation should be surrounded with double quotes You can specify as many constraints as needed including the possibility to combine with the Search by position Multiple constraints are combined in the boolean AND sense When all query constraints are specified the search can be executed by pushing one of the buttons on the query form either Search amp View or Search amp Download the difference being whether you want to review the results before downloading them or whether you want to download directly skipping the intermediate review step Sort com EECHER A Y_FLAG 0 Y Flag sextractor A J_FLAG 0 J Flag sextractor A H_FLAG 0 H Flag sextractor A KS_FLAG 0 Ks Flag sextractor detection image v ES
13. ea ESO VISTA VIRCAM IMAGE JITTER 55 170 283 2009 12 05T 19 47 34 55 305 174 2010 04 19T 18 10 37 Y J H Ks NB118 1 8 331077 48 2012A8A 5444 156M Acknowledgment Policy Please include the following acknowledgment in any published material that makes use of this data products on observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla or Paranal Observatories under programme ID s 179 A 2005 A 179 A 2005 B Figure 3 Detailed information display for one selected catalogue 3 2 Finding catalogues By default all catalogues are listed on the main page The top panel allows finding catalogues by Title and Content The list of catalogues being displayed is restricted to the subset matching the input constraints Enter keywords to match the catalogue title into the Title field or enter a word of the standard vocabulary defined by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance the so called Unified Content Descriptors UCD 1 controlled vocabulary into the Content field Press Find to apply your constraint To find all catalogues containing near infrared K band data for instance enter EM IR K into the Content field Note the input keywords are matched against any substring of the catalogue title and UCDs respectively The matching is independent of character case 3 3 Accessing previous versions The ESO Phase 3 system supports and keeps track of the version history of data releases You can check the tick box
14. earch e Constraint per column using ASU syntax for constraint qualification e Sorting the result set applies to the download data e Query results total counts records found e Tabular display of top 1000 records e Pagination displays 10 20 50 or 100 records per page e Free re arrangement of columns show hide e Sorting the displayed data does not apply to the download data e Filter to inspect the result set ASU like syntax apply clear e Refine modify the query e Download the query result set e Supported download formats FITS binary table CSV TSV VOtable HTML e Query the catalogue and download the resulting data immediately skipping the display stage 1 The user defined filter applies to the tabular display but not to the download data ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 ES ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 Q User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 6of 14 e Request the selected catalogue in its entirety for download from the ESO archive FITS format no query 2 Getting started Being a web application the ESO Catalogue Facility is reached by navigating the browser to the URL http www eso org qi First you must logon using your ESO User Portal credentials which then carries you to the main page of the ESO Catalogue Facility Note the user authentication expires after some idle time after which you may need to authenticate again e
15. er Number Number 263814 21 99080 21 67854 21 26824 20 96337 20 78843 2 21 70204 262158 23 00419 22 28412 21 65461 20 98373 20 73525 0 22 39588 277914 22 59721 21 72366 21 28691 20 99398 20 75927 0 21 76913 271353 21 99284 21 74650 21 35145 21 03029 20 74768 3 22 02411 273505 21 60003 21 28343 21 34403 21 03989 20 78797 0 21 71654 276864 23 02074 22 41723 21 70063 21 07186 20 86799 0 22 59346 276282 22 20062 21 90182 21 40343 21 07984 20 81376 0 21 97119 275669 22 68763 21 94227 21 44656 21 10656 20 92572 1 21 85518 262428 22 22923 21 94149 21 42816 21 11421 20 88958 0 21 97642 273578 21 93890 21 61996 21 40965 21 13888 20 98831 0 21 89375 NUMBER Y_APER2 J_APER2 H_APER2 KS_APER2A KS_AUTO KS_FLAG NB118_APER2 J gt Results 81 90 of 759sorted by KS_APER2 Show 10 results per page Previous 1 6789 10 1112 76 Next Columns Name U unit Datatype Description int NUMBER Running object number Y_APER2 mag float Y fixed aperture magnitude 2 AB J_APER2 mag float J fixed aperture magnitude 2 AB H_APER2 mag float H fixed aperture magnitude 2 AB KS_APER2 mag float Ks fixed aperture magnitude 2 AB detection image KS_AUTO mag float Ks auto magnitude AB detection image KS_FLAG int Ks Flag sextractor detection image NB118_APER2 mag float NB118 fixed aperture magnitude 2 AB SOURCE_ID char 29 UitraVISTA source designation DR1 ALPHA_J2000 deg double Right ascension of barycenter in decima
16. l degrees J2000 DELTA_J2000 deg double Declination of barycenter in decimal degrees J2000 Figure 7 Display of the query results 5 Requesting the entire catalogue This function allows direct access to the catalogue data exactly as submitted by the data provider for ingestion into the ESO archive via Phase 3 After pressing the Request button to download the selected catalogue in its entirety from the ESO archive you are directed to the ESO Request Handler Then press the Submit button to confirm your i Exceptions are the FITS header keywords being updated or inserted in the course of the archiving process namely ARCFILE CHECKSUM DATASUM ORIGFILE ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 ES ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 14 or 14 request Thereafter the list of files belonging to the selected catalogue is displayed including filesize in bytes and you can download the data to your computer 6 Acknowledgements The Catalogue Facility has been developed by ESO s Software Development Division The usage of the Spherical Geometry Toolkit Budavari T Szalay A amp Fekete G 2010 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 122 1375 and of the VOview package which was originally written for the Hubble Legacy Archive is acknowledged The ESO Catalogue Facility employs the Sesame name resolver operated a
17. t detailed information about this catalogue and to inspect its kind of content Figure 3 The first tab shows the information pertaining to the entire catalogue The second tab lists Dag ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 ES ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 Q User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page of 14 all columns belonging to this catalogue including their names descriptions data type size in bytes Unified Content Descriptors UCD and physical unit Use the browsers BACK button to return to the main page Details Deep Ultra Deep Near Infrared Catalogue of the COSMOS Field Title Data Collection Release Number Data Provider P l Phase 3 Programme Submission Date Publication Date Description Telescope Instrument Technique of Observation Start of Observations End of Observations Filter Set bands Sky Solid Angle Number of Records Number of Columns Reference Deep Ultra Deep Near Infrared Catalogue of the COSMOS Field ULTRAVISTA_CAT 4 J S Dunlop UltraVISTA 2012 09 05 2012 09 24 UltraVISTA is an ultra deep near infrared survey which targets a sub area of the COSMOS field To 5 sigma limit 23 7 AB the Ks selected first UltraVISTA DR1 catalogue release contains 216 268 sources observed in Y J H and Ks bands over the full UltraVISTA deep area 1 8 square degree with NB118 observations covering the ultra deep stripes ar
18. t the Centre de Donn es astronomiques de Strasbourg CDS ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany
19. ue appears Figure 4 ESO Karl Schwarzschild Str 2 85748 Garching bei M nchen Germany Doc GEN MAN ESO 33000 5789 ES ESO Catalogue Facility Issue 1 Q User Manual Date 30 11 2012 Page 9of 14 4 1 Search by position The Catalogue Facility allows searching around one Single Target or multiple target positions List of Targets using either a circular region Cone or a square Box The Size of the search region specifies the maximum angular distance from the target position i e the radius in case of Cone search and the side length of the square in case of Box search You can define the Size in units of arcsecond arcmininute or degree Note that the Search by position is available for all catalogues having equatorial J2000 coordinates otherwise the panel does not appear The two coordinates must be identified in the FITS header by pos eq ra meta main and pos eq dec meta main set in the corresponding TUCDi keywords The Target field in case of the Single Target search accepts as input either a pair of coordinates or a target name The coordinates can be either J2000 default or galactic In case of J2000 coordinates either decimal degree or sexagesimal format HMS DMS is possible dd d ddd dd d ddd The point preceding the decimal part is mandatory even if the decimal part is empty HH MM SS SSS DD MM SS SSS The sign is mandatory for the declination seconds and arcse
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