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Tartarus: Reduced ASCA AGN Data (Version 3.1)
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The Tartarus database contains the results of a detailed but systematic analysis of ASCA observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN).
Description
It contains source and background events files, spectra, ancillary response files and response matrices, images, and assorted light curves for a large number of ASCA AGN observations. Spectral fit results are done by automatic XSPEC fitting.
This database table allows easy access to reduced AGN data for the whole community, allowing the maximum scientific return from the data. Availability of publishable light curves, images, and spectra (which can also be readily re-fitted) should be particularly valuable to astronomers with little direct experience in the reduction of X-ray data. Version 3.1 has been created by analyzing all ASCA observing sequences with targets designated as AGN, as indicated by a leading "7" in the ASCA observing sequence number.
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Version 3.1 contains products for all 611 observing sequences designated as AGN observations. This is a significant improvement over Versions 1 and 2. Moreover, the 611 sequences for which products are available are complete in the sense that either the target object was not detected (in which case an upper limit on GIS2 source counts is given) or the intended AGN target was detected and the data were fully analyzed.
In order to obtain the most accurate background subtraction and minimize contamination from any nearby sources, version 3.1 makes more use of custom extraction regions than previous versions. It is expected that version 3.1 will be replaced when the final ASCA calibration is completed. This database table has been created by the Tartarus Team, and they, rather than Imperial College London or the HEASARC, are responsible for the contents.
It was ingested by the HEASARC in August, 2005. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Links
Get the data
- Resource heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/tartarus.html ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Resource heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets=&table=tartarus ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/tartarus-reduced-asca-agn-data-version-3-1 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=0ce44cfe-2513-4a44-a0ee-b9321ad1e… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| NASA Data Portal | 0ce44cfe-2513-4a44-a0ee-b9321ad1e601 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · data nasa gov | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:tabular | enrichment · data nasa gov | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
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| description | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
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