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Release 3.1.3: SkyView, DS9, Aladin and SAMP

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

For some while we’ve supported the Virtual Observatory Simple Application Messaging Protocol (SAMP) for SkyView when you are using the jar file. The idea is that you can run a command like: java -jar skyview.jar position=3c273 survey=dss samp=true and any … Continue reading →

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SkyView Version 3.1.1: New GOODS Surveys

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

We have just released SkyView Version 3.1.1 which has a number of new surveys in the north and south GOODS regions. With this release SkyView includes GOODS data from the following Space Observatories: Chandra ACIS Hubble ACS Hubble NICMOS Spitzer … Continue reading →

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SkyView GOODS preview

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

We are currently in the process of rolling out 5 new surveys including 13 separate bands to enable SkyView users to take advantage of some of the deepest surveys that have been made of the sky. This is the biggest … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.0.0 released

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

During the past 24 hours we have released our new SkyView organization discussed in our prior article. All of the old URLs for queries should continue to work though most are now redirected. We did run into a couple of … Continue reading →

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New Release of SkyView

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

Next week we will be making a major new release of SkyView. This is primarily a structural release where we have centralized the organization of SkyView‘s files. Previously the operational SkyView services used code scattered through a number of directories: … Continue reading →

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Swift BAT 70 Month Survey Available in SkyView

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Tess Jaffe

A new release of the Swift BAT all sky survey is now available. This has data from the first 70 months of the Swift mission. It is much more sensitive than the 9 month surveys that we had heretofore. Both … Continue reading →

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Planck Now Available Through SkyView

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView now provides access to the Planck all-sky survey data in nine frequency bands from 30 to 857 GHz. Currently we are using the data as released by the Planck team–a single file for each band. This requires SkyView to … Continue reading →

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SkyView access to UKIDSS survey data

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView users may now generate images using the public UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) data. While UKIDSS data is available in only a fraction (14%) of the sky, it goes much deeper and has higher resolution than the 2MASS … Continue reading →

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SkyView includes WMAP Nine Year Data

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Tess Jaffe

We have updated SkyView to use the new nine year maps for WMAP. These represent the full mission dataset for the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. The structure is unchanged from the earlier 7 year data. We provide a total of … Continue reading →

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VLSS Redux available through SkyView

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

The VLSS sky survey has been updated to use data from the VLSS redux analysis described in Lane et al 2012. There is a slight increase in sky coverage and resolution and a substantial improvement in the noise due to … Continue reading →

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