PTF Level 2: Resource Record Summary

Resource Record Summary

Image Service:
Palomar Transient Factory Level 2

Short name: PTF Level 2 IVOA Identifier: ivo://irsa.ipac/PTF/Images/PTF_L2Publisher: NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archiveivo://irsa.ipac/IRSA[Pub. ID] More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/ptf.html VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2016 Nov 05 00:00:00Z
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Description

PTF is a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical transient sky. Level 2 data are coadds of Level 1 images.

More About this Resource

About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archiveivo://irsa.ipac/IRSA[Pub. ID]

Creator: PTF team

Contact Information:

X IRSA Support Team
Email: irsasupport at ipac.caltech.edu
Address:

Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.

This service apparently provides only public data

Relevant dates for this Resource:

Release: 2015 Aug 07

This resource was registered on: 2016 Nov 05 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2017 Mar 16 01:00:00Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService: This resource is a service that provides access to data (specifically, images). With this type of service, you can search for data by issuing a query, and information about available data is returned as a table.

Resource type keywords: Survey	Subject keywords:
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/ptf.html

	Data Coverage Information
	This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time. Wavebands covered: Optical

Available Service Interfaces

Simple Image AccessXX

This is a standard IVOA service used to search for images from this resource that overlap with a specified region of the sky.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/sia/ptf/images/level2?

Image service type: Atlas: pre-computed survey images will be returned.
Maximum query region accepted: longitude: 12.0 degrees; latitude: 12.0 degrees
Maximum region size returned: longitude: 0.57 degrees; latitude: 1.14 degrees
Maximum image size returned: 2048 X 4096 pixels
Maximum image size returned: 2 GB
Maximum number of matching records returned: 2147483647

	Custom Service
	This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource. VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource. Available endpoints for this service interface: Interactive web page: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/ptf.html