Tag Archives: surveys

Problems with UKIDSS and SDSS remote surveys

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

Over the past couple of days we have discovered problems in accessing two of our remote survey data sets. The UKIDSS simple image access service has been non-responsive. We’re hoping it comes up again soon. You can see the red … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.2.0: Displaying quantitative survey information

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

In the home page in the new v3.2.0 you may notice a new line under the Survey Documentation link: Summary: CSV or Plot You can click on CSV to download a table of the information on all SkyView surveys. If … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.2.0: Quantitative metadata

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

Version 3.2.0 of SkyView includes a new section, Quantitative, in the survey description file. This section is intended to capture machine-friendly quantitative characteristics of SkyView surveys. Diverse sources have been used for these and notes are included giving the source … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.2.0: Some survey data removed from jar

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView-in-a-Jar users will note that the new v3.2.0 SkyView jar is much smaller than the earlier versions, under 4 megabytes compared to over 15 megabytes for v3.1.21. Part of the reason is that the way we access some older surveys … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.2.0 Preview: Summary

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

Next week we will be releasing version 3.2.0 of SkyView. You can play with it right now if you specify the version v3.2.0 in the SkyView URL, but it’s still being tested. There are several major changes in this release … Continue reading →

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AKARI and TGSS ADR1 in SkyView: V3.1.20

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

Two new surveys sets have been added to the next release of SkyView (v3.1.20): Four new infrared all-sky surveys taken by the AKARI FIS (wavelengths between 60 and 160 microns) are now available. We have also added the TGSS ADR1 … Continue reading →

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Skyview V3.1.16: Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

We have just released a new version of SkyView which adds the Effelsberg-Bonn HI survey: measuring the HI column density for the entire sky north of -6 declination with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity.   Look for the EBHIS survey in the … 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 gets the GOODS

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

Next week we hope to begin releasing a whole new set of surveys in SkyView. These surveys are from the GOODS regions — the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey. Two regions of the sky (northern and southern hemispheres), relatively devoid … 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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