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Facilities and Instruments Description framework

Abstract accepted by the LISA Scientific Organization Committee:

Title: Shared nomenclature and identifiers for telescopes and instruments

First author: Perret, E. Contributors: Louys M., Buga M., Lesteven S. ...
Institute: Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg , CNRS- Unistra UMR 7550

Absctract:
In the context of sharing public data, science results are expected to be reproducible and therefore we need full traceability of the origin of the data. On the documentalist side, there is a need to relate instrumental origins to published data. We propose to define a shared nomenclature to index each publication with unique designations for facilities, telescopes and instruments based on the Virtual Observatory work on semantics.
This would help the documentalists to check the consistency of the instrumental description in publications or make it more explicit. Observation period, data quality and spectral coverage for instance, may be checked by referencing to a global instrumentation service which gathers the nominal observation parameters for the telescope/facility/instrument involved.
Based on this indexation mechanism, then the bibliographic metrics for telescope/instrument usage would be easy to compute, and tracking services like the ESO telescope bibliography database (TelBib) or others would be easier to feed.
This paper traces the existing initiatives and propose a facility description framework reusing Virtual Observatory metadata which could be fed by the community.

Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

  • keywords verifications in data sets serialisation
  • data citation
  • facilicity citations tracing
  • etc.
As stated during the CDS HCERES evaluation, "science questions drive the need for multi-lambda, multi-messenger observations" (Mark Allen, HCERES).

For a precise and efficient tracking of the origin of metadata, we need to track details on instruments and facilities used for the data acquisition especilly because it uses nowadays, various regimes and modes to combine observations for a scientific purpose.

Existing Initiatives

This page records some of the existing initiatives on the topic

UseCases

Use Cases for Facilities description

Discussion for a description schema

from the usage exposed , we see the facilities and instruments need to be standardized (name , ids ) together with physical features such as spectral range, operational period, field of view, spatial resolution, mode, etc.

Nominal feature values for instruments can be used in various services, when the information attached to a dataset ( associated data , catalog , etc) is not available).

Use cases exposed above may have 3 levels of usage for instruments/ telecope parameters:

  • precise : theses are the exact parameters for a specific observation
  • intermediate: the usual values ex spectral coverage , recorded for a data collection ( ex 2MASS J --> fits the range of filter J.
    This applies when fluxes have been converted to a different photometric system than the original instrumental one
  • global : when no other info is provided for the spectral range of a data set, the min and max spectral range of the instrument can be used.

Example of Usage : Missions/ Telescopes X Time line ( Mihaela Buga , CDS)

                                                                
        -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> 
        1978 1981 1883  1986 1990  1993  1995 1996    1999  2001  2002   2004                        2011
        Einstein   EXOSAT     |      |            Beppo SAX('96-'02) |     SWIFT (2004-ongoing?)       
                             BBXRT   |                               INTEGRAL(2002-ongoing)               
                              |      |-----------------------|
                              |             ASCA(1993-2001)          
                              |            |----------------------------------------------------------|
                              |                                RXTE(1995-2011)    
                              |-----------------------|
                                  Rosat (1990-1999)   |
                                                      Chandra(1999-ongoing)
                                                      XMM-Netwon : EPIC, MOS/PM, RGS (1999-ongoing)                     

Filter names spread along the wavelentgh axis ( Mihaela Buga , CDS)

                                                      
             3000A    4000A    5000A    6000A    7000A    8000A    9000A    10000A
             300nm    400nm    500nm    600nm    700nm    800nm    900nm    1µm     1.2µm      1.6µm     2.1µm                                         
             ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> 
                 U u      g B        V       r R       i I          z                J          H         K         filtres Simbad
                          B=F435W    V=F555W r=F625W   i=F775W      z=F850LP         J=F110W    H=F160W             filtres HST
                          g=F475W                      I=F814W                                                      filtres HST
           ___________________________                                   ____________________________________                                              
                                      |                                 |
                                      |                                 |
             0.01nm    10nm      380nm(3800A)    700nm(7000A)   1µm   2.5µm  30µm  300µm  1mm/300GHz   1cm/30GHz    1m/ 300MHz       longueur d'onde                                               
        --------|--------|----------|----------------------------|-------|-----|-----|---------|-----------|---------|----------------> 
         Gam         X        UV             Opt                    NIR    MIR   FIR     smm        mm      micro-onde                                            
                                                                                                            -------------Rad----> 

It shows that by having a centralised description of telescopes/instruments and the physical features of spectral range or operationnal periods, the discoverability of specific observations is facilitated.

First attempt in the IVOA Framework ( 2015)

At the ADASS conference in 2015 , we presented a first Model to describe Facilities, Telescopes, space missions , instruments , by gathering properties and reusing the VOREsource schema defined in the IVOA .

see the poster attached for a simple overview http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/UniFacil/ADASS2015-VOFacilities-posterv6.pdf

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This effort deals with the definition of a core set of metadata to represent basic information for instruments, telescopes , space missions and facilities in general in

astronomy.

The basic elements are described in an XML schema document vailable here: XML schema For a Facility Model

The graphical representation for each element of this small model is also available as png images :

  • VOresource VOFacility_Resource.png
  • VOFacility VOFacility_Facility.png
  • Space Mission VOFacility_SpaceMission.png
  • Space craft VOFacility_Spacecraft.png
  • Telescope VOFacility_Telescope.png
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Abstract accepted by the LISA Scientific Organization Committee:

Title: Shared nomenclature and identifiers for telescopes and instruments

First author: Perret, E. Contributors: Louys M., Buga M., Lesteven S. ...
Institute: Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg , CNRS- Unistra UMR 7550

Absctract:
In the context of sharing public data, science results are expected to be reproducible and therefore we need full traceability of the origin of the data. On the documentalist side, there is a need to relate instrumental origins to published data. We propose to define a shared nomenclature to index each publication with unique designations for facilities, telescopes and instruments based on the Virtual Observatory work on semantics.
This would help the documentalists to check the consistency of the instrumental description in publications or make it more explicit. Observation period, data quality and spectral coverage for instance, may be checked by referencing to a global instrumentation service which gathers the nominal observation parameters for the telescope/facility/instrument involved.
Based on this indexation mechanism, then the bibliographic metrics for telescope/instrument usage would be easy to compute, and tracking services like the ESO telescope bibliography database (TelBib) or others would be easier to feed.
This paper traces the existing initiatives and propose a facility description framework reusing Virtual Observatory metadata which could be fed by the community.

 

Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

  • keywords verifications in data sets serialisation
  • data citation
  • facilicity citations tracing
  • etc.
As stated during the CDS HCERES evaluation, "science questions drive the need for multi-lambda, multi-messenger observations" (Mark Allen, HCERES).

For a precise and efficient tracking of the origin of metadata, we need to track details on instruments and facilities used for the data acquisition especilly because it uses nowadays, various regimes and modes to combine observations for a scientific purpose.

Existing Initiatives

This page records some of the existing initiatives on the topic

UseCases

Use Cases for Facilities description

Discussion for a description schema

from the usage exposed , we see the facilities and instruments need to be standardized (name , ids ) together with physical features such as spectral range, operational period, field of view, spatial resolution, mode, etc.

Nominal feature values for instruments can be used in various services, when the information attached to a dataset ( associated data , catalog , etc) is not available).

Use cases exposed above may have 3 levels of usage for instruments/ telecope parameters:

  • precise : theses are the exact parameters for a specific observation
  • intermediate: the usual values ex spectral coverage , recorded for a data collection ( ex 2MASS J --> fits the range of filter J.
    This applies when fluxes have been converted to a different photometric system than the original instrumental one
  • global : when no other info is provided for the spectral range of a data set, the min and max spectral range of the instrument can be used.

Example of Usage : Missions/ Telescopes X Time line ( Mihaela Buga , CDS)

                                                                
        -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> 
        1978 1981 1883  1986 1990  1993  1995 1996    1999  2001  2002   2004                        2011
        Einstein   EXOSAT     |      |            Beppo SAX('96-'02) |     SWIFT (2004-ongoing?)       
                             BBXRT   |                               INTEGRAL(2002-ongoing)               
                              |      |-----------------------|
                              |             ASCA(1993-2001)          
                              |            |----------------------------------------------------------|
                              |                                RXTE(1995-2011)    
                              |-----------------------|
                                  Rosat (1990-1999)   |
                                                      Chandra(1999-ongoing)
                                                      XMM-Netwon : EPIC, MOS/PM, RGS (1999-ongoing)                     

Filter names spread along the wavelentgh axis ( Mihaela Buga , CDS)

                                                      
             3000A    4000A    5000A    6000A    7000A    8000A    9000A    10000A
             300nm    400nm    500nm    600nm    700nm    800nm    900nm    1µm     1.2µm      1.6µm     2.1µm                                         
             ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> 
                 U u      g B        V       r R       i I          z                J          H         K         filtres Simbad
                          B=F435W    V=F555W r=F625W   i=F775W      z=F850LP         J=F110W    H=F160W             filtres HST
                          g=F475W                      I=F814W                                                      filtres HST
           ___________________________                                   ____________________________________                                              
                                      |                                 |
                                      |                                 |
             0.01nm    10nm      380nm(3800A)    700nm(7000A)   1µm   2.5µm  30µm  300µm  1mm/300GHz   1cm/30GHz    1m/ 300MHz       longueur d'onde                                               
        --------|--------|----------|----------------------------|-------|-----|-----|---------|-----------|---------|----------------> 
         Gam         X        UV             Opt                    NIR    MIR   FIR     smm        mm      micro-onde                                            
                                                                                                            -------------Rad----> 

It shows that by having a centralised description of telescopes/instruments and the physical features of spectral range or operationnal periods, the discoverability of specific observations is facilitated.

First attempt in the IVOA Framework ( 2015)

At the ADASS conference in 2015 , we presented a first Model to describe Facilities, Telescopes, space missions , instruments , by gathering properties and reusing the VOREsource schema defined in the IVOA .

see the poster attached for a simple overview http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/UniFacil/ADASS2015-VOFacilities-posterv6.pdf

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Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

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  • keywords verifications in data sets serialisation
  • data citation
  • facilicity citations tracing
  • etc.
As stated during the CDS HCERES evaluation, "science questions drive the need for multi-lambda, multi-messenger observations" (Mark Allen, HCERES).
 
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UseCases

Use Cases for Facilities description

Discussion for a description schema

from the usage exposed , we see the facilities and instruments need to be standardized (name , ids ) together with physical features such as spectral range, operational period, field of view, spatial resolution, mode, etc.

Nominal feature values for instruments can be used in various services, when the information attached to a dataset ( associated data , catalog , etc) is not available).

Use cases exposed above may have 3 levels of usage for instruments/ telecope parameters:

  • precise : theses are the exact parameters for a specific observation
  • intermediate: the usual values ex spectral coverage , recorded for a data collection ( ex 2MASS J --> fits the range of filter J.
    This applies when fluxes have been converted to a different photometric system than the original instrumental one
  • global : when no other info is provided for the spectral range of a data set, the min and max spectral range of the instrument can be used.
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Example of Usage : Missions/ Telescopes X Time line ( Mihaela Buga , CDS)

 
                                                                
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        1978 1981 1883  1986 1990  1993  1995 1996    1999  2001  2002   2004                        2011
        Einstein   EXOSAT     |      |            Beppo SAX('96-'02) |     SWIFT (2004-ongoing?)       
                             BBXRT   |                               INTEGRAL(2002-ongoing)               
                              |      |-----------------------|
                              |             ASCA(1993-2001)          
                              |            |----------------------------------------------------------|
                              |                                RXTE(1995-2011)    
                              |-----------------------|
                                  Rosat (1990-1999)   |
                                                      Chandra(1999-ongoing)
                                                      XMM-Netwon : EPIC, MOS/PM, RGS (1999-ongoing)                     

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Filter names spread along the wavelentgh axis ( Mihaela Buga , CDS)

 
                                                      
             3000A    4000A    5000A    6000A    7000A    8000A    9000A    10000A
             300nm    400nm    500nm    600nm    700nm    800nm    900nm    1µm     1.2µm      1.6µm     2.1µm                                         
             ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> 
                 U u      g B        V       r R       i I          z                J          H         K         filtres Simbad
                          B=F435W    V=F555W r=F625W   i=F775W      z=F850LP         J=F110W    H=F160W             filtres HST
                          g=F475W                      I=F814W                                                      filtres HST
           ___________________________                                   ____________________________________                                              
                                      |                                 |
                                      |                                 |
             0.01nm    10nm      380nm(3800A)    700nm(7000A)   1µm   2.5µm  30µm  300µm  1mm/300GHz   1cm/30GHz    1m/ 300MHz       longueur d'onde                                               
        --------|--------|----------|----------------------------|-------|-----|-----|---------|-----------|---------|----------------> 
         Gam         X        UV             Opt                    NIR    MIR   FIR     smm        mm      micro-onde                                            
                                                                                                            -------------Rad----> 

It shows that by having a centralised description of telescopes/instruments and the physical features of spectral range or operationnal periods, the discoverability of specific observations is facilitated.

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First attempt in the IVOA Framework ( 2015)

 
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At the ADASS conference in 2015 , we presented a first Model to describe Facilities, Telescopes, space missions , instruments , by gathering properties and reusing the VOREsource schema defined in the IVOA .

see the poster attached for a simple overview http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/UniFacil/ADASS2015-VOFacilities-posterv6.pdf

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Revision 112017-02-22 - EmmanuellePerret

 
META TOPICPARENT name="IvoaSemantics"

Facilities and Instruments Description framework

Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

- keywords verifications in data sets serialisation

- data citation

- facilicity citations tracing

etc...

Context: "science questions drive the need for multi-lambda, multi-messenger observations" (Mark Allen, HCERES). Discoverability of observations would be improved.

Existing Initiatives

ExistingInit

UseCases

Use Cases for Facilities description

Discussion for a description schema

from the usage exposed , we see the facilities and instruments need to be standardized (name , ids ) together with physical features such as spectral range, operational period, field of view, spatial resolution, mode, etc.

Nominal feature values for instruments can be used in various services, when the information attached to a dataset ( associated data , catalog , etc) is not available).

Use cases exposed above may have 3 levels of usage for instruments/ telecope parameters:

  • precise : theses are the exact parameters for a specific observation
  • intermediate: the usual values ex spectral coverage , recorded for a data collection ( ex 2MASS J --> fits the range of filter J.
    This applies when fluxes have been converted to a different photometric system than the original instrumental one
  • global : when no other info is provided for the spectral range of a data set, the min and max spectral range of the instrument can be used.
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Missions/ Telescopes X

                                                                
        -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> 
        1978 1981 1883  1986 1990  1993  1995 1996    1999  2001  2002   2004                        2011
        Einstein   EXOSAT     |      |            Beppo SAX('96-'02) |     SWIFT (2004-ongoing?)       
                             BBXRT   |                               INTEGRAL(2002-ongoing)               
                              |      |-----------------------|
                              |             ASCA(1993-2001)          
                              |            |----------------------------------------------------------|
                              |                                RXTE(1995-2011)    
                              |-----------------------|
                                  Rosat (1990-1999)   |
                                                      Chandra(1999-ongoing)
                                                      XMM-Netwon : EPIC, MOS/PM, RGS (1999-ongoing)                     

Example of Mihaela schema for observation dates of X-ray missions.

She made the same kind of diagram for the wavelengths:

                                                      
             3000A    4000A    5000A    6000A    7000A    8000A    9000A    10000A
             300nm    400nm    500nm    600nm    700nm    800nm    900nm    1µm     1.2µm      1.6µm     2.1µm                                         
             ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> 
                 U u      g B        V       r R       i I          z                J          H         K         filtres Simbad
                          B=F435W    V=F555W r=F625W   i=F775W      z=F850LP         J=F110W    H=F160W             filtres HST
                          g=F475W                      I=F814W                                                      filtres HST
           ___________________________                                   ____________________________________                                              
                                      |                                 |
                                      |                                 |
             0.01nm    10nm      380nm(3800A)    700nm(7000A)   1µm   2.5µm  30µm  300µm  1mm/300GHz   1cm/30GHz    1m/ 300MHz       longueur d'onde                                               
        --------|--------|----------|----------------------------|-------|-----|-----|---------|-----------|---------|----------------> 
         Gam         X        UV             Opt                    NIR    MIR   FIR     smm        mm      micro-onde                                            
                                                                                                            -------------Rad----> 

It shows that by having a centralised description of telescopes/instruments and the physical features of spectral range or operationnal periods, the discoverability of specific observations is facilitated.

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Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments

  This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

- keywords verifications in data sets serialisation

- data citation

- facilicity citations tracing

etc...

Context: "science questions drive the need for multi-lambda, multi-messenger observations" (Mark Allen, HCERES). Discoverability of observations would be improved.

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Use cases exposed above may have 3 levels of usage for instruments/ telecope parameters:
  • precise : theses are the exact parameters for a specific observation
  • intermediate: the usual values ex spectral coverage , recorded for a data collection ( ex 2MASS J --> fits the range of filter J.
    This applies when fluxes have been converted to a different photometric system than the original instrumental one
  • global : when no other info is provided for the spectral range of a data set, the min and max spectral range of the instrument can be used.
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For agencies:

ESO Telescope Bibliography (TelBib) - (Head librarian: Uta Grothkopf):

http://telbib.eso.org

Purpose: Track the publications that use data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments.

A publication is linked to diverse program ID (registry of a set of observation with a defined Program ID nomenclature).

The program ID gives a series of dasetID = observing runs

1 progID for many nights of observations.

1 progID for diverse instruments (for instance UVES and PIONNEER)

A proposal is more general and gives the purpose of different observations.

List of NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) facilities for 2017A :

https://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/help/facilities.html#list

The MPC observatories list ("official" observatory codes):

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html, on the VO as ivo://org.gavo.dc/obscode/q/query

For publications:

American Astronomical Society (AAS) journal (chief scientific editor: Greg Schwarz - with Gus Muench):

"The AAS created a set of facility keywords about 12 years ago to help librarians and agencies track which facilities where used. The list has grown in that time and now contains almost 500 facilities. You can view them via this interface:

http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex/facility.html

It does get used by a few authors (~10-20%) but it is not mandatory. It also only applies to the AAS Journals so its adoption is not widespread. Another issues that might be important to you is that we do not have a vocabulary for instruments as we thought that would be too hard to track and monitor. The facility keyword is controlled but we let the author put in whatever they want for the instrument.

Plans for the future are 1) to have the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) folks integrate the list into the Thesaurus and 2) a pilot program to semantically identify facilities in AAS articles during production and then have the author approve/change the results during proofs. We are hopeful that this last option will greatly increase the tagging of facilities in our journals."

Tag examples :
\facilities{KAIT}, \facility{Magellan:Baade (LDSS2 imaging spectrograph, Boller \& Chivens spectrograph)}, \facility{Magellan:Clay (LDSS2 imaging spectrograph)}, \facility{Swope (SITe No. 3 imaging CCD, NICMOS3 array)}, \facility{Du Pont (Tek No. 5 imaging CCD, WFCCD)}, \facility{Mayall (MOSAIC-1 wide-field camera)}, \facility{MMT (Blue Channel spectrograph)}, \facility{FLWO:1.5m (FAST)}, \facility{Shane (Kast Double spectrograph)}, \facility{Keck:I (LRIS)}, \facility{Keck:II (ESI)}

Keywords are given in the online table but the whole expression in {} is not controlled.

For A&A, relationship with the CDS to publish data but nothing about how facilities must be cited:

"Whenever the primary observational data (e.g., the spectrograms that were used for determining radial velocities or redshifts) are archived at a facility such as ESO or HST and therefore publicly available, there is no need for authors to provide them to A&A; in this case, we'll archive only the reduced data (i.e., the radial velocities and the reduced photometric data in the examples given above). When primary data presented in articles are not publicly available through an institutional archive (e.g., the IRAM spectroscopic data), the calibrated data will be archived at the CDS." from http://www.aanda.org/author-information

Others

Applications for telescope time

JKT's list of available optical/infrared telescopes to UK astronomers (personal page of John Taylor?):

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/jkt/telescopes.html

"This is a list and basic details of the ground-based optical and infrared observing facilities which accept applications for telescope time from UK astronomers."

The classification is oriented to select instruments for dedicated observation.

provides the physical features : spectral coverage , spatial resolution , field of view

and classify all instruments following the site-telescope-instrument hierarchy.

According to type of telescopes and spectral domains:

On Wikipedia : lists of optical telescopes, solar telescopes, radio telescopes, large optical telescopes, space telescopes, largest optical telescopes in the continental United States, infrared telescopes, refracting telescopes, largest optical refracting telescopes, largest infrared telescopes, astronomical observatories, X-ray space telescopes, proposed space observatories...

MAST (The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes): More than a list. Implies log archive...

http://archive.stsci.edu/

MAST is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.) List of missions.

Use-cases

CDS usages for SIMBAD - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga):

In order to add wavelenghts and quality of the coordinates of the astronomical objects that we record in SIMBAD we need to know with which instruments the astronomical objects of a publication are observed and from where the coordinates given in the paper are taken. An astronomer can give the approximate resolution of an instrument (that we traduce in SIMBAD by a quality letter: A=nice quality, E=very poor quality, etc.) and we can also indicate in which domain-range the position is given (Optical, Gamma, NIR, smm, FIR, Radio)...

In order to keep a track of the questions ask to astronomers and of telescopes/instruments found in the litterature, an internal list has been created on a TWiki.

Currently, it lists ~75 telescopes/missions: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twiki/bin/view/Ressources/CoordLambdaQualite1#ListMis

We have telescopes, instruments, wavelength domains, URLs toward the telescope site and Wikipedia and notes from astronomers concerning the quality of astrometry.

CDS usages for VizieR - (documentalist: Emmanuelle Perret, Sylvain Guéhenneux, Patricia Vannier et Marianne Brouty):

1. Description of measurements from tables in publications implies a section "Description" in a ReadMe file describing the observations: telescope/instrument and its location, date of observations are mandatory. If possible, wavelength range and resolution are also given (useful for SIMBAD).

2. Photometry from tables is used for the service called "Photometry viewer", it converts magnitudes in fluxes when possible and gather all the fluxes around a position to trace the spectral energy distribution (SED) of an object (if the search around the position only gives one object)...

See also recent presentation by Gilles Landais at Trieste Interop 2016:

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/IVOA_2016Trieste_Photometry_VizieR.pdf

In order to do so, we attribute filters to the measurements which are gathered in an internal table:

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=METAfilter

System of photometry is important and in that case, we go up to the precise filter with effective wavelength and width of the filter.

All the filters from the SVO (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/theory/fps/) have been included in this table.

3. Associated data (Gilles Landais) : help to astronomers for indexation of their FITS files : extraction from headers FITS (TEL_ID, DATE... ?)

help to documentalists for indexation of the FITS files : a list of telescopes allows to select an instrument - built along the indexations.

Currently, there is a minimum spectral range and a maximum spectral range but it could be very accurate (if the header is filled) or only give the minimum-maximum range of an instrument (see the dictionnary in Saada - created by Laurent Michel).

Purpose: database (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/assocdata/) searchable by observation date, spectral bands, coordinates in time series, spectra, images associated to publications.

See also the presentatio nby Gilles Landais at PREDON in november 2016 :

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/PREDON2016_curationVizieR.pdf

CDS usages for the Dictionary of Nomenclature - (documentalist: Marianne Brouty & Fabienne Woelfel):

When the publication is linked to specific observations, the facility is described along with the acronym created for the paper.

For instance, see section Note for http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/3104709

CDS usages for the HiPS in Aladin - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga ):

Diverse metadata are used to index the HiPS (Hierarchical Progressive Surveys) in Aladin.

In properties of HiPS, "obs_description" contain the telescope name and can contain the instrument in some cases.

All properties of HiPS: http://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query?hips_service_url=*&dataproduct_type=!catalog&dataproduct_type=!cube&get=record

Currently we use a simple acronym, but a unique id would be better (pid=persistent ID) because it will link to the VO registry with a basic description and the URL toward the instrument archives from the agencies.

Keywords assessment for bibliographic citation

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Revision 92017-02-22 - MireilleLouys

 
META TOPICPARENT name="IvoaSemantics"

Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments in common framework

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

- keywords verifications in data sets serialisation

- data citation

- facilicity citations tracing

etc...

Context: "science questions drive the need for multi-lambda, multi-messenger observations" (Mark Allen, HCERES). Discoverability of observations would be improved.

Existing Initiatives

For specific scientific domains:

Initiative from VESPA for planetology - Baptiste Cecconi

VESPA observatory facility database: https://voparis-confluence.obspm.fr/display/VES/Observatory+Facility+Database

span dates needed...

WISeREP (Weizmann Interactive Supernova data REPository) - Yaron et Gal-Yam ( 2012PASP..124..668Y):

http://wiserep.weizmann.ac.il

Database for supernovae providing (among other things) a list of 110 telescopes with latitude/longitude, elevation, diameter, URL and location.

Seems to be updated by the community.

For agencies:

ESO Telescope Bibliography (TelBib) - (Head librarian: Uta Grothkopf):

http://telbib.eso.org

Purpose: Track the publications that use data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments.

A publication is linked to diverse program ID (registry of a set of observation with a defined Program ID nomenclature).

The program ID gives a series of dasetID = observing runs

1 progID for many nights of observations.

1 progID for diverse instruments (for instance UVES and PIONNEER)

A proposal is more general and gives the purpose of different observations.

List of NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) facilities for 2017A :

https://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/help/facilities.html#list

The MPC observatories list ("official" observatory codes):

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html, on the VO as ivo://org.gavo.dc/obscode/q/query

For publications:

American Astronomical Society (AAS) journal (chief scientific editor: Greg Schwarz - with Gus Muench):

"The AAS created a set of facility keywords about 12 years ago to help librarians and agencies track which facilities where used. The list has grown in that time and now contains almost 500 facilities. You can view them via this interface:

http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex/facility.html

It does get used by a few authors (~10-20%) but it is not mandatory. It also only applies to the AAS Journals so its adoption is not widespread. Another issues that might be important to you is that we do not have a vocabulary for instruments as we thought that would be too hard to track and monitor. The facility keyword is controlled but we let the author put in whatever they want for the instrument.

Plans for the future are 1) to have the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) folks integrate the list into the Thesaurus and 2) a pilot program to semantically identify facilities in AAS articles during production and then have the author approve/change the results during proofs. We are hopeful that this last option will greatly increase the tagging of facilities in our journals."

Tag examples :
\facilities{KAIT}, \facility{Magellan:Baade (LDSS2 imaging spectrograph, Boller \& Chivens spectrograph)}, \facility{Magellan:Clay (LDSS2 imaging spectrograph)}, \facility{Swope (SITe No. 3 imaging CCD, NICMOS3 array)}, \facility{Du Pont (Tek No. 5 imaging CCD, WFCCD)}, \facility{Mayall (MOSAIC-1 wide-field camera)}, \facility{MMT (Blue Channel spectrograph)}, \facility{FLWO:1.5m (FAST)}, \facility{Shane (Kast Double spectrograph)}, \facility{Keck:I (LRIS)}, \facility{Keck:II (ESI)}

Keywords are given in the online table but the whole expression in {} is not controlled.

For A&A, relationship with the CDS to publish data but nothing about how facilities must be cited:

"Whenever the primary observational data (e.g., the spectrograms that were used for determining radial velocities or redshifts) are archived at a facility such as ESO or HST and therefore publicly available, there is no need for authors to provide them to A&A; in this case, we'll archive only the reduced data (i.e., the radial velocities and the reduced photometric data in the examples given above). When primary data presented in articles are not publicly available through an institutional archive (e.g., the IRAM spectroscopic data), the calibrated data will be archived at the CDS." from http://www.aanda.org/author-information

Others

Added:
>
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Applications for telescope time

  JKT's list of available optical/infrared telescopes to UK astronomers (personal page of John Taylor?):

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/jkt/telescopes.html

Changed:
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This is a list and basic details of the ground-based optical and infrared observing facilities which accept applications for telescope time from UK astronomers.
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"This is a list and basic details of the ground-based optical and infrared observing facilities which accept applications for telescope time from UK astronomers."
Added:
>
>
The classification is oriented to select instruments for dedicated observation.

provides the physical features : spectral coverage , spatial resolution , field of view

and classify all instruments following the site-telescope-instrument hierarchy.

  According to type of telescopes and spectral domains:

On Wikipedia : lists of optical telescopes, solar telescopes, radio telescopes, large optical telescopes, space telescopes, largest optical telescopes in the continental United States, infrared telescopes, refracting telescopes, largest optical refracting telescopes, largest infrared telescopes, astronomical observatories, X-ray space telescopes, proposed space observatories...

MAST (The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes): More than a list. Implies log archive...

http://archive.stsci.edu/

MAST is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.) List of missions.

Use-cases

CDS usages for SIMBAD - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga):

In order to add wavelenghts and quality of the coordinates of the astronomical objects that we record in SIMBAD we need to know with which instruments the astronomical objects of a publication are observed and from where the coordinates given in the paper are taken. An astronomer can give the approximate resolution of an instrument (that we traduce in SIMBAD by a quality letter: A=nice quality, E=very poor quality, etc.) and we can also indicate in which domain-range the position is given (Optical, Gamma, NIR, smm, FIR, Radio)...

In order to keep a track of the questions ask to astronomers and of telescopes/instruments found in the litterature, an internal list has been created on a TWiki.

Currently, it lists ~75 telescopes/missions: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twiki/bin/view/Ressources/CoordLambdaQualite1#ListMis

We have telescopes, instruments, wavelength domains, URLs toward the telescope site and Wikipedia and notes from astronomers concerning the quality of astrometry.

CDS usages for VizieR - (documentalist: Emmanuelle Perret, Sylvain Guéhenneux, Patricia Vannier et Marianne Brouty):

1. Description of measurements from tables in publications implies a section "Description" in a ReadMe file describing the observations: telescope/instrument and its location, date of observations are mandatory. If possible, wavelength range and resolution are also given (useful for SIMBAD).

2. Photometry from tables is used for the service called "Photometry viewer", it converts magnitudes in fluxes when possible and gather all the fluxes around a position to trace the spectral energy distribution (SED) of an object (if the search around the position only gives one object)...

See also recent presentation by Gilles Landais at Trieste Interop 2016:

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/IVOA_2016Trieste_Photometry_VizieR.pdf

In order to do so, we attribute filters to the measurements which are gathered in an internal table:

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=METAfilter

System of photometry is important and in that case, we go up to the precise filter with effective wavelength and width of the filter.

All the filters from the SVO (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/theory/fps/) have been included in this table.

3. Associated data (Gilles Landais) : help to astronomers for indexation of their FITS files : extraction from headers FITS (TEL_ID, DATE... ?)

help to documentalists for indexation of the FITS files : a list of telescopes allows to select an instrument - built along the indexations.

Currently, there is a minimum spectral range and a maximum spectral range but it could be very accurate (if the header is filled) or only give the minimum-maximum range of an instrument (see the dictionnary in Saada - created by Laurent Michel).

Purpose: database (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/assocdata/) searchable by observation date, spectral bands, coordinates in time series, spectra, images associated to publications.

See also the presentatio nby Gilles Landais at PREDON in november 2016 :

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/PREDON2016_curationVizieR.pdf

CDS usages for the Dictionary of Nomenclature - (documentalist: Marianne Brouty & Fabienne Woelfel):

When the publication is linked to specific observations, the facility is described along with the acronym created for the paper.

For instance, see section Note for http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/3104709

CDS usages for the HiPS in Aladin - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga ):

Diverse metadata are used to index the HiPS (Hierarchical Progressive Surveys) in Aladin.

In properties of HiPS, "obs_description" contain the telescope name and can contain the instrument in some cases.

All properties of HiPS: http://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query?hips_service_url=*&dataproduct_type=!catalog&dataproduct_type=!cube&get=record

Currently we use a simple acronym, but a unique id would be better (pid=persistent ID) because it will link to the VO registry with a basic description and the URL toward the instrument archives from the agencies.

Keywords assessment for bibliographic citation

<--  
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Revision 82017-02-22 - EmmanuellePerret

 
META TOPICPARENT name="IvoaSemantics"

Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments in common framework

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

- keywords verifications in data sets serialisation

- data citation

- facilicity citations tracing

etc...

Context: "science questions drive the need for multi-lambda, multi-messenger observations" (Mark Allen, HCERES). Discoverability of observations would be improved.

Existing Initiatives

For specific scientific domains:

Initiative from VESPA for planetology - Baptiste Cecconi

VESPA observatory facility database: https://voparis-confluence.obspm.fr/display/VES/Observatory+Facility+Database

span dates needed...

WISeREP (Weizmann Interactive Supernova data REPository) - Yaron et Gal-Yam ( 2012PASP..124..668Y):

http://wiserep.weizmann.ac.il

Database for supernovae providing (among other things) a list of 110 telescopes with latitude/longitude, elevation, diameter, URL and location.

Seems to be updated by the community.

For agencies:

ESO Telescope Bibliography (TelBib) - (Head librarian: Uta Grothkopf):

http://telbib.eso.org

Purpose: Track the publications that use data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments.

A publication is linked to diverse program ID (registry of a set of observation with a defined Program ID nomenclature).

The program ID gives a series of dasetID = observing runs

1 progID for many nights of observations.

1 progID for diverse instruments (for instance UVES and PIONNEER)

A proposal is more general and gives the purpose of different observations.

List of NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) facilities for 2017A :

https://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/help/facilities.html#list

The MPC observatories list ("official" observatory codes):

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html, on the VO as ivo://org.gavo.dc/obscode/q/query

For publications:

American Astronomical Society (AAS) journal (chief scientific editor: Greg Schwarz - with Gus Muench):

"The AAS created a set of facility keywords about 12 years ago to help librarians and agencies track which facilities where used. The list has grown in that time and now contains almost 500 facilities. You can view them via this interface:

http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex/facility.html

It does get used by a few authors (~10-20%) but it is not mandatory. It also only applies to the AAS Journals so its adoption is not widespread. Another issues that might be important to you is that we do not have a vocabulary for instruments as we thought that would be too hard to track and monitor. The facility keyword is controlled but we let the author put in whatever they want for the instrument.

Plans for the future are 1) to have the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) folks integrate the list into the Thesaurus and 2) a pilot program to semantically identify facilities in AAS articles during production and then have the author approve/change the results during proofs. We are hopeful that this last option will greatly increase the tagging of facilities in our journals."

Tag examples :
\facilities{KAIT}, \facility{Magellan:Baade (LDSS2 imaging spectrograph, Boller \& Chivens spectrograph)}, \facility{Magellan:Clay (LDSS2 imaging spectrograph)}, \facility{Swope (SITe No. 3 imaging CCD, NICMOS3 array)}, \facility{Du Pont (Tek No. 5 imaging CCD, WFCCD)}, \facility{Mayall (MOSAIC-1 wide-field camera)}, \facility{MMT (Blue Channel spectrograph)}, \facility{FLWO:1.5m (FAST)}, \facility{Shane (Kast Double spectrograph)}, \facility{Keck:I (LRIS)}, \facility{Keck:II (ESI)}

Keywords are given in the online table but the whole expression in {} is not controlled.

Added:
>
>
For A&A, relationship with the CDS to publish data but nothing about how facilities must be cited:

"Whenever the primary observational data (e.g., the spectrograms that were used for determining radial velocities or redshifts) are archived at a facility such as ESO or HST and therefore publicly available, there is no need for authors to provide them to A&A; in this case, we'll archive only the reduced data (i.e., the radial velocities and the reduced photometric data in the examples given above). When primary data presented in articles are not publicly available through an institutional archive (e.g., the IRAM spectroscopic data), the calibrated data will be archived at the CDS." from http://www.aanda.org/author-information

 

Others

JKT's list of available optical/infrared telescopes to UK astronomers (personal page of John Taylor?):

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/jkt/telescopes.html

This is a list and basic details of the ground-based optical and infrared observing facilities which accept applications for telescope time from UK astronomers.

According to type of telescopes and spectral domains:

On Wikipedia : lists of optical telescopes, solar telescopes, radio telescopes, large optical telescopes, space telescopes, largest optical telescopes in the continental United States, infrared telescopes, refracting telescopes, largest optical refracting telescopes, largest infrared telescopes, astronomical observatories, X-ray space telescopes, proposed space observatories...

MAST (The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes): More than a list. Implies log archive...

http://archive.stsci.edu/

MAST is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.) List of missions.

Use-cases

CDS usages for SIMBAD - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga):

In order to add wavelenghts and quality of the coordinates of the astronomical objects that we record in SIMBAD we need to know with which instruments the astronomical objects of a publication are observed and from where the coordinates given in the paper are taken. An astronomer can give the approximate resolution of an instrument (that we traduce in SIMBAD by a quality letter: A=nice quality, E=very poor quality, etc.) and we can also indicate in which domain-range the position is given (Optical, Gamma, NIR, smm, FIR, Radio)...

In order to keep a track of the questions ask to astronomers and of telescopes/instruments found in the litterature, an internal list has been created on a TWiki.

Currently, it lists ~75 telescopes/missions: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twiki/bin/view/Ressources/CoordLambdaQualite1#ListMis

We have telescopes, instruments, wavelength domains, URLs toward the telescope site and Wikipedia and notes from astronomers concerning the quality of astrometry.

CDS usages for VizieR - (documentalist: Emmanuelle Perret, Sylvain Guéhenneux, Patricia Vannier et Marianne Brouty):

1. Description of measurements from tables in publications implies a section "Description" in a ReadMe file describing the observations: telescope/instrument and its location, date of observations are mandatory. If possible, wavelength range and resolution are also given (useful for SIMBAD).

2. Photometry from tables is used for the service called "Photometry viewer", it converts magnitudes in fluxes when possible and gather all the fluxes around a position to trace the spectral energy distribution (SED) of an object (if the search around the position only gives one object)...

See also recent presentation by Gilles Landais at Trieste Interop 2016:

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/IVOA_2016Trieste_Photometry_VizieR.pdf

In order to do so, we attribute filters to the measurements which are gathered in an internal table:

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=METAfilter

System of photometry is important and in that case, we go up to the precise filter with effective wavelength and width of the filter.

All the filters from the SVO (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/theory/fps/) have been included in this table.

3. Associated data (Gilles Landais) : help to astronomers for indexation of their FITS files : extraction from headers FITS (TEL_ID, DATE... ?)

help to documentalists for indexation of the FITS files : a list of telescopes allows to select an instrument - built along the indexations.

Currently, there is a minimum spectral range and a maximum spectral range but it could be very accurate (if the header is filled) or only give the minimum-maximum range of an instrument (see the dictionnary in Saada - created by Laurent Michel).

Purpose: database (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/assocdata/) searchable by observation date, spectral bands, coordinates in time series, spectra, images associated to publications.

See also the presentatio nby Gilles Landais at PREDON in november 2016 :

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/PREDON2016_curationVizieR.pdf

CDS usages for the Dictionary of Nomenclature - (documentalist: Marianne Brouty & Fabienne Woelfel):

When the publication is linked to specific observations, the facility is described along with the acronym created for the paper.

For instance, see section Note for http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/3104709

CDS usages for the HiPS in Aladin - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga ):

Diverse metadata are used to index the HiPS (Hierarchical Progressive Surveys) in Aladin.

In properties of HiPS, "obs_description" contain the telescope name and can contain the instrument in some cases.

All properties of HiPS: http://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query?hips_service_url=*&dataproduct_type=!catalog&dataproduct_type=!cube&get=record

Currently we use a simple acronym, but a unique id would be better (pid=persistent ID) because it will link to the VO registry with a basic description and the URL toward the instrument archives from the agencies.

Keywords assessment for bibliographic citation

<--  
-->

Revision 72017-02-02 - EmmanuellePerret

 
META TOPICPARENT name="IvoaSemantics"

Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments in common framework

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

- keywords verifications in data sets serialisation

- data citation

- facilicity citations tracing

etc...

Added:
>
>
Context: "science questions drive the need for multi-lambda, multi-messenger observations" (Mark Allen, HCERES). Discoverability of observations would be improved.
 

Existing Initiatives

For specific scientific domains:

Initiative from VESPA for planetology - Baptiste Cecconi

VESPA observatory facility database: https://voparis-confluence.obspm.fr/display/VES/Observatory+Facility+Database

span dates needed...

WISeREP (Weizmann Interactive Supernova data REPository) - Yaron et Gal-Yam ( 2012PASP..124..668Y):

http://wiserep.weizmann.ac.il

Database for supernovae providing (among other things) a list of 110 telescopes with latitude/longitude, elevation, diameter, URL and location.

Seems to be updated by the community.

For agencies:

ESO Telescope Bibliography (TelBib) - (Head librarian: Uta Grothkopf):

http://telbib.eso.org

Purpose: Track the publications that use data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments.

A publication is linked to diverse program ID (registry of a set of observation with a defined Program ID nomenclature).

The program ID gives a series of dasetID = observing runs

1 progID for many nights of observations.

1 progID for diverse instruments (for instance UVES and PIONNEER)

A proposal is more general and gives the purpose of different observations.

List of NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) facilities for 2017A :

https://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/help/facilities.html#list

The MPC observatories list ("official" observatory codes):

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html, on the VO as ivo://org.gavo.dc/obscode/q/query

For publications:

American Astronomical Society (AAS) journal (chief scientific editor: Greg Schwarz - with Gus Muench):

"The AAS created a set of facility keywords about 12 years ago to help librarians and agencies track which facilities where used. The list has grown in that time and now contains almost 500 facilities. You can view them via this interface:

http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex/facility.html

It does get used by a few authors (~10-20%) but it is not mandatory. It also only applies to the AAS Journals so its adoption is not widespread. Another issues that might be important to you is that we do not have a vocabulary for instruments as we thought that would be too hard to track and monitor. The facility keyword is controlled but we let the author put in whatever they want for the instrument.

Plans for the future are 1) to have the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) folks integrate the list into the Thesaurus and 2) a pilot program to semantically identify facilities in AAS articles during production and then have the author approve/change the results during proofs. We are hopeful that this last option will greatly increase the tagging of facilities in our journals."

Tag examples :
\facilities{KAIT}, \facility{Magellan:Baade (LDSS2 imaging spectrograph, Boller \& Chivens spectrograph)}, \facility{Magellan:Clay (LDSS2 imaging spectrograph)}, \facility{Swope (SITe No. 3 imaging CCD, NICMOS3 array)}, \facility{Du Pont (Tek No. 5 imaging CCD, WFCCD)}, \facility{Mayall (MOSAIC-1 wide-field camera)}, \facility{MMT (Blue Channel spectrograph)}, \facility{FLWO:1.5m (FAST)}, \facility{Shane (Kast Double spectrograph)}, \facility{Keck:I (LRIS)}, \facility{Keck:II (ESI)}

Keywords are given in the online table but the whole expression in {} is not controlled.

Others

JKT's list of available optical/infrared telescopes to UK astronomers (personal page of John Taylor?):

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/jkt/telescopes.html

This is a list and basic details of the ground-based optical and infrared observing facilities which accept applications for telescope time from UK astronomers.

According to type of telescopes and spectral domains:

On Wikipedia : lists of optical telescopes, solar telescopes, radio telescopes, large optical telescopes, space telescopes, largest optical telescopes in the continental United States, infrared telescopes, refracting telescopes, largest optical refracting telescopes, largest infrared telescopes, astronomical observatories, X-ray space telescopes, proposed space observatories...

MAST (The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes): More than a list. Implies log archive...

http://archive.stsci.edu/

MAST is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.) List of missions.

Use-cases

CDS usages for SIMBAD - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga):

In order to add wavelenghts and quality of the coordinates of the astronomical objects that we record in SIMBAD we need to know with which instruments the astronomical objects of a publication are observed and from where the coordinates given in the paper are taken. An astronomer can give the approximate resolution of an instrument (that we traduce in SIMBAD by a quality letter: A=nice quality, E=very poor quality, etc.) and we can also indicate in which domain-range the position is given (Optical, Gamma, NIR, smm, FIR, Radio)...

In order to keep a track of the questions ask to astronomers and of telescopes/instruments found in the litterature, an internal list has been created on a TWiki.

Currently, it lists ~75 telescopes/missions: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twiki/bin/view/Ressources/CoordLambdaQualite1#ListMis

We have telescopes, instruments, wavelength domains, URLs toward the telescope site and Wikipedia and notes from astronomers concerning the quality of astrometry.

CDS usages for VizieR - (documentalist: Emmanuelle Perret, Sylvain Guéhenneux, Patricia Vannier et Marianne Brouty):

1. Description of measurements from tables in publications implies a section "Description" in a ReadMe file describing the observations: telescope/instrument and its location, date of observations are mandatory. If possible, wavelength range and resolution are also given (useful for SIMBAD).

2. Photometry from tables is used for the service called "Photometry viewer", it converts magnitudes in fluxes when possible and gather all the fluxes around a position to trace the spectral energy distribution (SED) of an object (if the search around the position only gives one object)...

See also recent presentation by Gilles Landais at Trieste Interop 2016:

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/IVOA_2016Trieste_Photometry_VizieR.pdf

In order to do so, we attribute filters to the measurements which are gathered in an internal table:

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=METAfilter

System of photometry is important and in that case, we go up to the precise filter with effective wavelength and width of the filter.

All the filters from the SVO (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/theory/fps/) have been included in this table.

3. Associated data (Gilles Landais) : help to astronomers for indexation of their FITS files : extraction from headers FITS (TEL_ID, DATE... ?)

help to documentalists for indexation of the FITS files : a list of telescopes allows to select an instrument - built along the indexations.

Currently, there is a minimum spectral range and a maximum spectral range but it could be very accurate (if the header is filled) or only give the minimum-maximum range of an instrument (see the dictionnary in Saada - created by Laurent Michel).

Purpose: database (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/assocdata/) searchable by observation date, spectral bands, coordinates in time series, spectra, images associated to publications.

See also the presentatio nby Gilles Landais at PREDON in november 2016 :

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/PREDON2016_curationVizieR.pdf

CDS usages for the Dictionary of Nomenclature - (documentalist: Marianne Brouty & Fabienne Woelfel):

When the publication is linked to specific observations, the facility is described along with the acronym created for the paper.

For instance, see section Note for http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/3104709

CDS usages for the HiPS in Aladin - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga ):

Diverse metadata are used to index the HiPS (Hierarchical Progressive Surveys) in Aladin.

In properties of HiPS, "obs_description" contain the telescope name and can contain the instrument in some cases.

All properties of HiPS: http://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query?hips_service_url=*&dataproduct_type=!catalog&dataproduct_type=!cube&get=record

Currently we use a simple acronym, but a unique id would be better (pid=persistent ID) because it will link to the VO registry with a basic description and the URL toward the instrument archives from the agencies.

Keywords assessment for bibliographic citation

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Revision 62017-01-27 - EmmanuellePerret

 
META TOPICPARENT name="IvoaSemantics"

Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments in common framework

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

- keywords verifications in data sets serialisation

- data citation

- facilicity citations tracing

etc...

Existing Initiatives

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For s:

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For specific scientific domains:

  Initiative from VESPA for planetology - Baptiste Cecconi

VESPA observatory facility database: https://voparis-confluence.obspm.fr/display/VES/Observatory+Facility+Database

span dates needed...

WISeREP (Weizmann Interactive Supernova data REPository) - Yaron et Gal-Yam ( 2012PASP..124..668Y):

http://wiserep.weizmann.ac.il

Database for supernovae providing (among other things) a list of 110 telescopes with latitude/longitude, elevation, diameter, URL and location.

Seems to be updated by the community.

For agencies:

ESO Telescope Bibliography (TelBib) - (Head librarian: Uta Grothkopf):

http://telbib.eso.org

Changed:
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Tracking publications that use data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments.
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Purpose: Track the publications that use data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments.
 
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A publication is linked to diverse program ID (registry of a set of observation with a defined Program ID nomenclature).

The program ID gives a series of dasetID = observing runs

1 progID for many nights of observations.

1 progID for diverse instruments (for instance UVES and PIONNEER)

A proposal is more general and gives the purpose of different observations.

 List of NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) facilities for 2017A :

https://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/help/facilities.html#list

The MPC observatories list ("official" observatory codes):

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html, on the VO as ivo://org.gavo.dc/obscode/q/query

Added:
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For publications:

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) journal (chief scientific editor: Greg Schwarz):
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American Astronomical Society (AAS) journal (chief scientific editor: Greg Schwarz - with Gus Muench):
  "The AAS created a set of facility keywords about 12 years ago to help librarians and agencies track which facilities where used. The list has grown in that time and now contains almost 500 facilities. You can view them via this interface:

http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex/facility.html

It does get used by a few authors (~10-20%) but it is not mandatory. It also only applies to the AAS Journals so its adoption is not widespread. Another issues that might be important to you is that we do not have a vocabulary for instruments as we thought that would be too hard to track and monitor. The facility keyword is controlled but we let the author put in whatever they want for the instrument.

Plans for the future are 1) to have the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) folks integrate the list into the Thesaurus and 2) a pilot program to semantically identify facilities in AAS articles during production and then have the author approve/change the results during proofs. We are hopeful that this last option will greatly increase the tagging of facilities in our journals."

Added:
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Tag examples :
\facilities{KAIT}, \facility{Magellan:Baade (LDSS2 imaging spectrograph, Boller \& Chivens spectrograph)}, \facility{Magellan:Clay (LDSS2 imaging spectrograph)}, \facility{Swope (SITe No. 3 imaging CCD, NICMOS3 array)}, \facility{Du Pont (Tek No. 5 imaging CCD, WFCCD)}, \facility{Mayall (MOSAIC-1 wide-field camera)}, \facility{MMT (Blue Channel spectrograph)}, \facility{FLWO:1.5m (FAST)}, \facility{Shane (Kast Double spectrograph)}, \facility{Keck:I (LRIS)}, \facility{Keck:II (ESI)}

Keywords are given in the online table but the whole expression in {} is not controlled.
 

Others

JKT's list of available optical/infrared telescopes to UK astronomers (personal page of John Taylor?):

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/jkt/telescopes.html

This is a list and basic details of the ground-based optical and infrared observing facilities which accept applications for telescope time from UK astronomers.

According to type of telescopes and spectral domains:

On Wikipedia : lists of optical telescopes, solar telescopes, radio telescopes, large optical telescopes, space telescopes, largest optical telescopes in the continental United States, infrared telescopes, refracting telescopes, largest optical refracting telescopes, largest infrared telescopes, astronomical observatories, X-ray space telescopes, proposed space observatories...

MAST (The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes): More than a list. Implies log archive...

http://archive.stsci.edu/

MAST is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.) List of missions.

Use-cases

CDS usages for SIMBAD - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga):

Changed:
<
<
Internal list on a TWiki with 75 telescopes/missions: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twiki/bin/view/Ressources/CoordLambdaQualite1#ListMis
>
>
In order to add wavelenghts and quality of the coordinates of the astronomical objects that we record in SIMBAD we need to know with which instruments the astronomical objects of a publication are observed and from where the coordinates given in the paper are taken. An astronomer can give the approximate resolution of an instrument (that we traduce in SIMBAD by a quality letter: A=nice quality, E=very poor quality, etc.) and we can also indicate in which domain-range the position is given (Optical, Gamma, NIR, smm, FIR, Radio)...
 
Changed:
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The purpose is to have the wavelength and quality of astrometry for SIMBAD according to the diverse instruments.
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In order to keep a track of the questions ask to astronomers and of telescopes/instruments found in the litterature, an internal list has been created on a TWiki.
 
Added:
>
>
Currently, it lists ~75 telescopes/missions: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twiki/bin/view/Ressources/CoordLambdaQualite1#ListMis
 We have telescopes, instruments, wavelength domains, URLs toward the telescope site and Wikipedia and notes from astronomers concerning the quality of astrometry.
Changed:
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CDS usages for VizieR - (documentalist: Emmanuelle Perret, Sylvain, Patricia et Marianne):
>
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CDS usages for VizieR - (documentalist: Emmanuelle Perret, Sylvain Guéhenneux, Patricia Vannier et Marianne Brouty):
  1. Description of measurements from tables in publications implies a section "Description" in a ReadMe file describing the observations: telescope/instrument and its location, date of observations are mandatory. If possible, wavelength range and resolution are also given (useful for SIMBAD).

2. Photometry from tables is used for the service called "Photometry viewer", it converts magnitudes in fluxes when possible and gather all the fluxes around a position to trace the spectral energy distribution (SED) of an object (if the search around the position only gives one object)...

Changed:
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<
See also recent presentation by Gilles Landais at Trieste Interop 2016
>
>
See also recent presentation by Gilles Landais at Trieste Interop 2016:
  http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/IVOA_2016Trieste_Photometry_VizieR.pdf

In order to do so, we attribute filters to the measurements which are gathered in an internal table:

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=METAfilter

System of photometry is important and in that case, we go up to the precise filter with effective wavelength and width of the filter.

All the filters from the SVO (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/theory/fps/) have been included in this table.

Changed:
<
<
3. Associated data (Gilles Landais) - aide à l'indexation : extraction des header FITS (TEL_ID, DATE... ?) - list of telescopes increasing with indexations.
>
>
3. Associated data (Gilles Landais) : help to astronomers for indexation of their FITS files : extraction from headers FITS (TEL_ID, DATE... ?)
 
Added:
>
>
help to documentalists for indexation of the FITS files : a list of telescopes allows to select an instrument - built along the indexations.

Currently, there is a minimum spectral range and a maximum spectral range but it could be very accurate (if the header is filled) or only give the minimum-maximum range of an instrument (see the dictionnary in Saada - created by Laurent Michel).

 Purpose: database (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/assocdata/) searchable by observation date, spectral bands, coordinates in time series, spectra, images associated to publications.
Added:
>
>
See also the presentatio nby Gilles Landais at PREDON in november 2016 :
 http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/PREDON2016_curationVizieR.pdf

CDS usages for the Dictionary of Nomenclature - (documentalist: Marianne Brouty & Fabienne Woelfel):

When the publication is linked to specific observations, the facility is described along with the acronym created for the paper.

For instance, see section Note for http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/3104709

CDS usages for the HiPS in Aladin - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga ):

Changed:
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<
in order to ... we need : ....
>
>
Diverse metadata are used to index the HiPS (Hierarchical Progressive Surveys) in Aladin.
 
Changed:
<
<
currently we use a simple acronym , but a unisque id would be better (pid)...
>
>
In properties of HiPS, "obs_description" contain the telescope name and can contain the instrument in some cases.
 
Changed:
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<
In properties (See properties) of HiPS, "obs_description" contain the telescope name and can contain the instrument in some cases.
>
>
All properties of HiPS: http://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query?hips_service_url=*&dataproduct_type=!catalog&dataproduct_type=!cube&get=record
 
Changed:
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Cf. Propriétés de l'ensemble des HiPS: http://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query?hips_service_url=*&dataproduct_type=!catalog&dataproduct_type=!cube&get=record
>
>
Currently we use a simple acronym, but a unique id would be better (pid=persistent ID) because it will link to the VO registry with a basic description and the URL toward the instrument archives from the agencies.
Added:
>
>

 

Keywords assessment for bibliographic citation

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Revision 52017-01-27 - MireilleLouys

 
META TOPICPARENT name="IvoaSemantics"

Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments in common framework

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

- keywords verifications in data sets serialisation

- data citation

- facilicity citations tracing

etc...

Existing Initiatives

Changed:
<
<

For specific type of objects:

>
>

For s:

  Initiative from VESPA for planetology - Baptiste Cecconi
Changed:
<
<
VESPA observatory facility database: http://voparis-confluence.obspm.fr/display/VES/Observatory+Facility+Database
>
>
VESPA observatory facility database: https://voparis-confluence.obspm.fr/display/VES/Observatory+Facility+Database
  span dates needed...

WISeREP (Weizmann Interactive Supernova data REPository) - Yaron et Gal-Yam ( 2012PASP..124..668Y):

http://wiserep.weizmann.ac.il

Database for supernovae providing (among other things) a list of 110 telescopes with latitude/longitude, elevation, diameter, URL and location.

Seems to be updated by the community.

Changed:
<
<

For observatories:

>
>

For agencies:

  ESO Telescope Bibliography (TelBib) - (Head librarian: Uta Grothkopf):

http://telbib.eso.org

Tracking publications that use data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments.

List of NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) facilities for 2017A :

https://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/help/facilities.html#list

The MPC observatories list ("official" observatory codes):

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html, on the VO as ivo://org.gavo.dc/obscode/q/query

For publications:

American Astronomical Society (AAS) journal (chief scientific editor: Greg Schwarz):

"The AAS created a set of facility keywords about 12 years ago to help librarians and agencies track which facilities where used. The list has grown in that time and now contains almost 500 facilities. You can view them via this interface:

http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex/facility.html

It does get used by a few authors (~10-20%) but it is not mandatory. It also only applies to the AAS Journals so its adoption is not widespread. Another issues that might be important to you is that we do not have a vocabulary for instruments as we thought that would be too hard to track and monitor. The facility keyword is controlled but we let the author put in whatever they want for the instrument.

Plans for the future are 1) to have the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) folks integrate the list into the Thesaurus and 2) a pilot program to semantically identify facilities in AAS articles during production and then have the author approve/change the results during proofs. We are hopeful that this last option will greatly increase the tagging of facilities in our journals."

Others

JKT's list of available optical/infrared telescopes to UK astronomers (personal page of John Taylor?):

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/jkt/telescopes.html

This is a list and basic details of the ground-based optical and infrared observing facilities which accept applications for telescope time from UK astronomers.

According to type of telescopes and spectral domains:

On Wikipedia : lists of optical telescopes, solar telescopes, radio telescopes, large optical telescopes, space telescopes, largest optical telescopes in the continental United States, infrared telescopes, refracting telescopes, largest optical refracting telescopes, largest infrared telescopes, astronomical observatories, X-ray space telescopes, proposed space observatories...

MAST (The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes): More than a list. Implies log archive...

http://archive.stsci.edu/

MAST is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.) List of missions.

Use-cases

CDS usages for SIMBAD - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga):

Internal list on a TWiki with 75 telescopes/missions: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twiki/bin/view/Ressources/CoordLambdaQualite1#ListMis

The purpose is to have the wavelength and quality of astrometry for SIMBAD according to the diverse instruments.

We have telescopes, instruments, wavelength domains, URLs toward the telescope site and Wikipedia and notes from astronomers concerning the quality of astrometry.

CDS usages for VizieR - (documentalist: Emmanuelle Perret, Sylvain, Patricia et Marianne):

1. Description of measurements from tables in publications implies a section "Description" in a ReadMe file describing the observations: telescope/instrument and its location, date of observations are mandatory. If possible, wavelength range and resolution are also given (useful for SIMBAD).

2. Photometry from tables is used for the service called "Photometry viewer", it converts magnitudes in fluxes when possible and gather all the fluxes around a position to trace the spectral energy distribution (SED) of an object (if the search around the position only gives one object)...

Added:
>
>
See also recent presentation by Gilles Landais at Trieste Interop 2016

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/IVOA_2016Trieste_Photometry_VizieR.pdf

 In order to do so, we attribute filters to the measurements which are gathered in an internal table:

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=METAfilter

System of photometry is important and in that case, we go up to the precise filter with effective wavelength and width of the filter.

All the filters from the SVO (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/theory/fps/) have been included in this table.

3. Associated data (Gilles Landais) - aide à l'indexation : extraction des header FITS (TEL_ID, DATE... ?) - list of telescopes increasing with indexations.

Purpose: database (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/assocdata/) searchable by observation date, spectral bands, coordinates in time series, spectra, images associated to publications.

Changed:
<
<
CDS usages for the Dictionary of Nomenclature - (documentalist: Marianne & Fabienne):
>
>
http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/~landais/presentations/PREDON2016_curationVizieR.pdf
 
Added:
>
>
CDS usages for the Dictionary of Nomenclature - (documentalist: Marianne Brouty & Fabienne Woelfel):
 When the publication is linked to specific observations, the facility is described along with the acronym created for the paper.

For instance, see section Note for http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/3104709

Changed:
<
<
CDS usages for the HiPS in Aladin - (documentalist: Mihaela):
>
>
CDS usages for the HiPS in Aladin - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga ):
Added:
>
>
in order to ... we need : ....

currently we use a simple acronym , but a unisque id would be better (pid)...

  In properties (See properties) of HiPS, "obs_description" contain the telescope name and can contain the instrument in some cases.

Cf. Propriétés de l'ensemble des HiPS: http://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query?hips_service_url=*&dataproduct_type=!catalog&dataproduct_type=!cube&get=record

Keywords assessment for bibliographic citation

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Revision 42016-12-15 - MarkusDemleitner

 
META TOPICPARENT name="IvoaSemantics"

Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments in common framework

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

- keywords verifications in data sets serialisation

- data citation

- facilicity citations tracing

etc...

Existing Initiatives

For specific type of objects:

Initiative from VESPA for planetology - Baptiste Cecconi

VESPA observatory facility database: http://voparis-confluence.obspm.fr/display/VES/Observatory+Facility+Database

span dates needed...

WISeREP (Weizmann Interactive Supernova data REPository) - Yaron et Gal-Yam ( 2012PASP..124..668Y):

http://wiserep.weizmann.ac.il

Database for supernovae providing (among other things) a list of 110 telescopes with latitude/longitude, elevation, diameter, URL and location.

Seems to be updated by the community.

For observatories:

ESO Telescope Bibliography (TelBib) - (Head librarian: Uta Grothkopf):

http://telbib.eso.org

Tracking publications that use data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments.

List of NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) facilities for 2017A :

https://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/help/facilities.html#list

Added:
>
>
The MPC observatories list ("official" observatory codes):

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html, on the VO as ivo://org.gavo.dc/obscode/q/query

 

For publications:

American Astronomical Society (AAS) journal (chief scientific editor: Greg Schwarz):

"The AAS created a set of facility keywords about 12 years ago to help librarians and agencies track which facilities where used. The list has grown in that time and now contains almost 500 facilities. You can view them via this interface:

http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex/facility.html

It does get used by a few authors (~10-20%) but it is not mandatory. It also only applies to the AAS Journals so its adoption is not widespread. Another issues that might be important to you is that we do not have a vocabulary for instruments as we thought that would be too hard to track and monitor. The facility keyword is controlled but we let the author put in whatever they want for the instrument.

Plans for the future are 1) to have the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) folks integrate the list into the Thesaurus and 2) a pilot program to semantically identify facilities in AAS articles during production and then have the author approve/change the results during proofs. We are hopeful that this last option will greatly increase the tagging of facilities in our journals."

Others

JKT's list of available optical/infrared telescopes to UK astronomers (personal page of John Taylor?):

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/jkt/telescopes.html

This is a list and basic details of the ground-based optical and infrared observing facilities which accept applications for telescope time from UK astronomers.

According to type of telescopes and spectral domains:

On Wikipedia : lists of optical telescopes, solar telescopes, radio telescopes, large optical telescopes, space telescopes, largest optical telescopes in the continental United States, infrared telescopes, refracting telescopes, largest optical refracting telescopes, largest infrared telescopes, astronomical observatories, X-ray space telescopes, proposed space observatories...

MAST (The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes): More than a list. Implies log archive...

http://archive.stsci.edu/

MAST is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.) List of missions.

Use-cases

CDS usages for SIMBAD - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga):

Internal list on a TWiki with 75 telescopes/missions: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twiki/bin/view/Ressources/CoordLambdaQualite1#ListMis

The purpose is to have the wavelength and quality of astrometry for SIMBAD according to the diverse instruments.

We have telescopes, instruments, wavelength domains, URLs toward the telescope site and Wikipedia and notes from astronomers concerning the quality of astrometry.

CDS usages for VizieR - (documentalist: Emmanuelle Perret, Sylvain, Patricia et Marianne):

1. Description of measurements from tables in publications implies a section "Description" in a ReadMe file describing the observations: telescope/instrument and its location, date of observations are mandatory. If possible, wavelength range and resolution are also given (useful for SIMBAD).

2. Photometry from tables is used for the service called "Photometry viewer", it converts magnitudes in fluxes when possible and gather all the fluxes around a position to trace the spectral energy distribution (SED) of an object (if the search around the position only gives one object)...

In order to do so, we attribute filters to the measurements which are gathered in an internal table:

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=METAfilter

System of photometry is important and in that case, we go up to the precise filter with effective wavelength and width of the filter.

All the filters from the SVO (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/theory/fps/) have been included in this table.

3. Associated data (Gilles Landais) - aide à l'indexation : extraction des header FITS (TEL_ID, DATE... ?) - list of telescopes increasing with indexations.

Purpose: database (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/assocdata/) searchable by observation date, spectral bands, coordinates in time series, spectra, images associated to publications.

CDS usages for the Dictionary of Nomenclature - (documentalist: Marianne & Fabienne):

When the publication is linked to specific observations, the facility is described along with the acronym created for the paper.

For instance, see section Note for http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/3104709

CDS usages for the HiPS in Aladin - (documentalist: Mihaela):

In properties (See properties) of HiPS, "obs_description" contain the telescope name and can contain the instrument in some cases.

Cf. Propriétés de l'ensemble des HiPS: http://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query?hips_service_url=*&dataproduct_type=!catalog&dataproduct_type=!cube&get=record

Keywords assessment for bibliographic citation

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Revision 32016-12-15 - EmmanuellePerret

 
META TOPICPARENT name="IvoaSemantics"

Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments in common framework

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

- keywords verifications in data sets serialisation

- data citation

- facilicity citations tracing

etc...

Existing Initiatives

For specific type of objects:

Initiative from VESPA for planetology - Baptiste Cecconi

VESPA observatory facility database: http://voparis-confluence.obspm.fr/display/VES/Observatory+Facility+Database

span dates needed...

WISeREP (Weizmann Interactive Supernova data REPository) - Yaron et Gal-Yam ( 2012PASP..124..668Y):

http://wiserep.weizmann.ac.il

Database for supernovae providing (among other things) a list of 110 telescopes with latitude/longitude, elevation, diameter, URL and location.

Seems to be updated by the community.

For observatories:

ESO Telescope Bibliography (TelBib) - (Head librarian: Uta Grothkopf):

http://telbib.eso.org

Tracking publications that use data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments.

List of NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) facilities for 2017A :

https://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/help/facilities.html#list

For publications:

American Astronomical Society (AAS) journal (chief scientific editor: Greg Schwarz):

"The AAS created a set of facility keywords about 12 years ago to help librarians and agencies track which facilities where used. The list has grown in that time and now contains almost 500 facilities. You can view them via this interface:

http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex/facility.html

It does get used by a few authors (~10-20%) but it is not mandatory. It also only applies to the AAS Journals so its adoption is not widespread. Another issues that might be important to you is that we do not have a vocabulary for instruments as we thought that would be too hard to track and monitor. The facility keyword is controlled but we let the author put in whatever they want for the instrument.

Plans for the future are 1) to have the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) folks integrate the list into the Thesaurus and 2) a pilot program to semantically identify facilities in AAS articles during production and then have the author approve/change the results during proofs. We are hopeful that this last option will greatly increase the tagging of facilities in our journals."

Others

JKT's list of available optical/infrared telescopes to UK astronomers (personal page of John Taylor?):

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/jkt/telescopes.html

This is a list and basic details of the ground-based optical and infrared observing facilities which accept applications for telescope time from UK astronomers.

According to type of telescopes and spectral domains:

On Wikipedia : lists of optical telescopes, solar telescopes, radio telescopes, large optical telescopes, space telescopes, largest optical telescopes in the continental United States, infrared telescopes, refracting telescopes, largest optical refracting telescopes, largest infrared telescopes, astronomical observatories, X-ray space telescopes, proposed space observatories...

MAST (The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes): More than a list. Implies log archive...

http://archive.stsci.edu/

MAST is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.) List of missions.

Use-cases

CDS usages for SIMBAD - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga):

Internal list on a TWiki with 75 telescopes/missions: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twiki/bin/view/Ressources/CoordLambdaQualite1#ListMis

The purpose is to have the wavelength and quality of astrometry for SIMBAD according to the diverse instruments.

We have telescopes, instruments, wavelength domains, URLs toward the telescope site and Wikipedia and notes from astronomers concerning the quality of astrometry.

CDS usages for VizieR - (documentalist: Emmanuelle Perret, Sylvain, Patricia et Marianne):

1. Description of measurements from tables in publications implies a section "Description" in a ReadMe file describing the observations: telescope/instrument and its location, date of observations are mandatory. If possible, wavelength range and resolution are also given (useful for SIMBAD).

2. Photometry from tables is used for the service called "Photometry viewer", it converts magnitudes in fluxes when possible and gather all the fluxes around a position to trace the spectral energy distribution (SED) of an object (if the search around the position only gives one object)...

In order to do so, we attribute filters to the measurements which are gathered in an internal table:

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=METAfilter

System of photometry is important and in that case, we go up to the precise filter with effective wavelength and width of the filter.

All the filters from the SVO (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/theory/fps/) have been included in this table.

3. Associated data (Gilles Landais) - aide à l'indexation : extraction des header FITS (TEL_ID, DATE... ?) - list of telescopes increasing with indexations.

Purpose: database (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/assocdata/) searchable by observation date, spectral bands, coordinates in time series, spectra, images associated to publications.

CDS usages for the Dictionary of Nomenclature - (documentalist: Marianne & Fabienne):

When the publication is linked to specific observations, the facility is described along with the acronym created for the paper.

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Par exemple, cf section Note pour http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/3104709
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For instance, see section Note for http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/3104709
  CDS usages for the HiPS in Aladin - (documentalist: Mihaela):

In properties (See properties) of HiPS, "obs_description" contain the telescope name and can contain the instrument in some cases.

Cf. Propriétés de l'ensemble des HiPS: http://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query?hips_service_url=*&dataproduct_type=!catalog&dataproduct_type=!cube&get=record

Keywords assessment for bibliographic citation

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Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments in common framework

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

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The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments , telescopes , space missions , space crafts, etc . and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for
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The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments, telescopes, space missions, space crafts, etc. and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for
  - keywords verifications in data sets serialisation

- data citation

- facilicity citations tracing

etc...

Existing Initiatives

Added:
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For specific type of objects:

Initiative from VESPA for planetology - Baptiste Cecconi

VESPA observatory facility database: http://voparis-confluence.obspm.fr/display/VES/Observatory+Facility+Database

span dates needed...

WISeREP (Weizmann Interactive Supernova data REPository) - Yaron et Gal-Yam ( 2012PASP..124..668Y):

http://wiserep.weizmann.ac.il

Database for supernovae providing (among other things) a list of 110 telescopes with latitude/longitude, elevation, diameter, URL and location.

Seems to be updated by the community.

For observatories:

ESO Telescope Bibliography (TelBib) - (Head librarian: Uta Grothkopf):

http://telbib.eso.org

Tracking publications that use data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments.

List of NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) facilities for 2017A :

https://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/help/facilities.html#list

For publications:

American Astronomical Society (AAS) journal (chief scientific editor: Greg Schwarz):

"The AAS created a set of facility keywords about 12 years ago to help librarians and agencies track which facilities where used. The list has grown in that time and now contains almost 500 facilities. You can view them via this interface:

http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex/facility.html

It does get used by a few authors (~10-20%) but it is not mandatory. It also only applies to the AAS Journals so its adoption is not widespread. Another issues that might be important to you is that we do not have a vocabulary for instruments as we thought that would be too hard to track and monitor. The facility keyword is controlled but we let the author put in whatever they want for the instrument.

Plans for the future are 1) to have the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) folks integrate the list into the Thesaurus and 2) a pilot program to semantically identify facilities in AAS articles during production and then have the author approve/change the results during proofs. We are hopeful that this last option will greatly increase the tagging of facilities in our journals."

Others

JKT's list of available optical/infrared telescopes to UK astronomers (personal page of John Taylor?):

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/jkt/telescopes.html

This is a list and basic details of the ground-based optical and infrared observing facilities which accept applications for telescope time from UK astronomers.

According to type of telescopes and spectral domains:

On Wikipedia : lists of optical telescopes, solar telescopes, radio telescopes, large optical telescopes, space telescopes, largest optical telescopes in the continental United States, infrared telescopes, refracting telescopes, largest optical refracting telescopes, largest infrared telescopes, astronomical observatories, X-ray space telescopes, proposed space observatories...

MAST (The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes): More than a list. Implies log archive...

http://archive.stsci.edu/

MAST is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.) List of missions.

 

Use-cases

Added:
>
>
CDS usages for SIMBAD - (documentalist: Mihaela Buga):

Internal list on a TWiki with 75 telescopes/missions: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twiki/bin/view/Ressources/CoordLambdaQualite1#ListMis

The purpose is to have the wavelength and quality of astrometry for SIMBAD according to the diverse instruments.

We have telescopes, instruments, wavelength domains, URLs toward the telescope site and Wikipedia and notes from astronomers concerning the quality of astrometry.

CDS usages for VizieR - (documentalist: Emmanuelle Perret, Sylvain, Patricia et Marianne):

1. Description of measurements from tables in publications implies a section "Description" in a ReadMe file describing the observations: telescope/instrument and its location, date of observations are mandatory. If possible, wavelength range and resolution are also given (useful for SIMBAD).

2. Photometry from tables is used for the service called "Photometry viewer", it converts magnitudes in fluxes when possible and gather all the fluxes around a position to trace the spectral energy distribution (SED) of an object (if the search around the position only gives one object)...

In order to do so, we attribute filters to the measurements which are gathered in an internal table:

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=METAfilter

System of photometry is important and in that case, we go up to the precise filter with effective wavelength and width of the filter.

All the filters from the SVO (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/theory/fps/) have been included in this table.

3. Associated data (Gilles Landais) - aide à l'indexation : extraction des header FITS (TEL_ID, DATE... ?) - list of telescopes increasing with indexations.

Purpose: database (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/assocdata/) searchable by observation date, spectral bands, coordinates in time series, spectra, images associated to publications.

CDS usages for the Dictionary of Nomenclature - (documentalist: Marianne & Fabienne):

When the publication is linked to specific observations, the facility is described along with the acronym created for the paper.

Par exemple, cf section Note pour http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/3104709

CDS usages for the HiPS in Aladin - (documentalist: Mihaela):

In properties (See properties) of HiPS, "obs_description" contain the telescope name and can contain the instrument in some cases.

Cf. Propriétés de l'ensemble des HiPS: http://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query?hips_service_url=*&dataproduct_type=!catalog&dataproduct_type=!cube&get=record

 

Keywords assessment for bibliographic citation

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Revision 12016-12-12 - MireilleLouys

 
META TOPICPARENT name="IvoaSemantics"

Describing Facilities, Telescopes and Instruments in common framework

This is a common effort initiated in the Semantics working group, namely with suggestions from Planetary science services at Paris Obseervatory and collaborators.

The idea is to identify and gather needs for a homogeneized description and identification of instruments , telescopes , space missions , space crafts, etc . and create a maintained repository of identifiers re-usable by the community for

- keywords verifications in data sets serialisation

- data citation

- facilicity citations tracing

etc...

Existing Initiatives

Use-cases

Keywords assessment for bibliographic citation

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