Category Archives: Announce

New INTEGRAL Galactic Plane Survey in SkyView

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

A new INTEGRAL Galactic plane survey has been added using data provided by R. Krivonos and colleagues.  (See paper and web site).   This survey combines 9 years of INTEGRAL IBIS observations from December 2002 through January 2011 into a single … Continue reading →

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New SkyView Release

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

We’ve just released an updated version of SkyView with several changes. The Fermi data are now presented in five bands rather than two: 30-100 MeV 100-300 MeV 300-1000 MeV 1-3 GeV 3-30 GeV We’ve deleted the old COBE DIRBE survey. … Continue reading →

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WISE All-Sky Data Available in SkyView

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView is now serving the data from the WISE All-Sky Data release. The main difference with the preliminary release is coverage on the ~40% of the sky that was missing in the earlier release. However the entire dataset has been … Continue reading →

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SkyView links to WISE Preliminary Release Data

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

Data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Preliminary Release are now available in SkyView. WISE has made 4 all-sky surveys at 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 microns. The WISE surveys provide a remarkable picture of the sky in the … Continue reading →

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SkyView Support for SDSS DR8

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Tess Jaffe

We have updated SkyView to use the DR8 release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The DR8 includes substantially greater sky coverage and is a major reprocessing of all data in the SDSS. There are a fair number of … Continue reading →

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SkyView Fermi LAT Surveys

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Tess Jaffe

We have just released two gamma-ray all-sky surveys based upon the Fermi LAT weekly data. Fermi images go much deeper and have somewhat higher resolution than the old EGRET surveys. Fermi is also sensitive to gamma-rays at significantly higher energies, … Continue reading →

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SkyView updates GALEX survey

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Carina Kan

Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) surveys have been updated to use the GALEX GR6 release. As mentioned in a previous post GR6 improvements include more sky coverage and a bit better calibration. Image generation for GALEX may be slow for a … Continue reading →

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WMAP 7 Year Data Available in SkyView

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Tess Jaffe

The WMAP survey has been updated to use the 7 year integrated datasets from the HEASARC/Lambda archive. Previously we had been using the 5 year data. While there are small changes in the pixel values the underlying organization of the … Continue reading →

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SkyView Service Interruption

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Carina Kan

SkyView will be unavailable for a limited time Tuesday (August 3, 2010) morning as we perform a hardware upgrade. We hope that the downtime will be short but it is possible that some remote survey data and SkyView services may … Continue reading →

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Mellinger Optical Survey in SkyView

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Tess Jaffe

We are pleased to be able to announce the availability of a new medium resolution optical survey created by Axel Mellinger. This three color all-sky survey provides beautiful large-scale true-color images of the sky. For regions less than 30 degrees, … Continue reading →

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