FIRST: Resource Record Summary

Resource Record Summary

Image Service:
FIRST

Short name: FIRST IVOA Identifier: ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/firstPublisher: NASA/GSFC HEASARCivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD[Pub. ID] More Info: https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2018 Dec 03 00:00:00Z
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Description

The VLA FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters) is a project designed to produce the radio equivalent of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey over 10,000 square degrees of the North Galactic Cap. The <a href="http://sundog.stsci.edu/top.html"> FIRST home page </a> has details of the instrumentation, status of the project, and data available. Currently about 5000 images of approximately .775x.58 degrees are available. <P> These FIRST data have been retrieved from the <a href="ftp://archive.stsci.edu/pub/vla_first/data/"> FIRST FTP archive </a> at the <a href="http://www.stsci.edu/resources"> Space Telescope Science Institute</a>. <p> The FIRST survey is included on the <b>SkyView High Resolution Radio Coverage </b><a href="/images/high_res_radio.jpg"> map</a>. This map shows coverage on an Aitoff projection of the sky in equatorial coordinates.

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: NASA/GSFC HEASARCivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD[Pub. ID]

Creator: The FIRST project team: R.J. Becker, D.H. Helfand, R.L. White M.D. Gregg. S.A. Laurent-Muehleisen. Contributor: Skyview Project

Contact Information:

X SkyView Help
Email: Skyview at skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov

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:

Created: 2018 Dec 03

This resource was registered on: 2018 Dec 03 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2018 Dec 03 00:00:00Z

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: Archive	Subject keywords: surveys
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov
Related Resources: This is a service for accessing data from: NASA/GSFC Exploration of the Universe Division ivo://nasa.heasarc/eud [Res. ID]

	Data Coverage Information
	This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time. Reference Coordinate System: UTC-ICRS-TOPOXXivo://STClib/CoordSys#UTC-ICRS-TOPO[Res. ID] Sky Coverage: Regions covered: Wavebands covered: Radio

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://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/vo/sia.pl?survey=first&

Image service type: Cutout: images will be cut out to match the requested region.
Maximum query region accepted: no size limit
Maximum region size returned: no size limit
Maximum image size returned: 5000 X 5000 pixels
Maximum image size returned: 10 MB
Maximum number of matching records returned: 500

	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://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/query.pl