SuperCOSMOS: Resource Record Summary

Resource Record Summary

Catalog Service:
SuperCOSMOS Science Archive (SSA)

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Short name: SuperCOSMOS IVOA Identifier: ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsaPublisher: WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburghivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk[Pub. ID] More Info: http://surveys.roe.ac.uk/ssa VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2009 Nov 17 13:57:09Z
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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.

More About this Resource

About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburghivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk[Pub. ID]

Creator: WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh

Contact Information:

X Mark Holliman
Email: msh at roe.ac.uk

Status of This Resource

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

Version: Version 1
Availability: This is an active resource.

This service apparently provides only public data

Relevant dates for this Resource:

Representative: 2009 Nov 17

This resource was registered on: 2009 Nov 17 13:57:09Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2012 Jul 19 11:53:55Z

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 catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.

Resource type keywords: Catalog	Subject keywords: Digitised photographic optical all-sky photometric astrometric survey
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: http://surveys.roe.ac.uk/ssa
Related Resources: This is a service for accessing data from: ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/ceaApplication

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

Available Service Interfaces

Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Description:

Detection table: cone search of detections from all plate measurements in all bands

Available endpoints for the standard interface:

http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/DirectCone?DSACAT=SSA&DSATAB=Detection&

Maximum search radius accepted: 1.500000 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 2000000
This service will ignore the VERB input parameter.

Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Description:

Source table: cone search of single band merged source catalog

Available endpoints for the standard interface:

http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/DirectCone?DSACAT=SSA&DSATAB=Source&

Maximum search radius accepted: 1.500000 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 2000000
This service will ignore the VERB input parameter.

	Table Access ProtocolXX
	This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input an ADQL or PQL query and returns tabular data. VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource. Available endpoints for the standard interface: Additional non-standard Table Access Protocol interfaces: URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/TAP

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.
Description:

Access to two applications: general ADQL query, and asynchronous cone-search where relevant/enabled.

Available endpoints for this service interface:

Type: CECInterface
http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/services/CommonExecutionConnectorService

	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: URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/VOSI/capabilities

	VOSI CapabilitiesXX
	This is a standard IVOA service endpoint that returns the detailed capabilities of the main IVOA standard service. VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource. Available endpoints for the standard interface: Additional non-standard VOSI Capabilities interfaces: URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/VOSI/capabilities

	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: URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/VOSI/availability

	VOSI AvailabilityXX
	This is a standard IVOA service endpoint that returns information about the availability and uptime of the main IVOA standard service. VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource. Available endpoints for the standard interface: Additional non-standard VOSI Availability interfaces: URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/VOSI/availability

	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: URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/VOSI/tables

	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: URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/VOSI/applications

	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: URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/ssa-dsa/delegations Role: std