Data Access Web Services demo
Workflow for non-trivial queries
Qserv testing
Terminology
In IPAC archives, dataset always refers to a collection of data.
For WISE, each data release is a dataset: like preliminary release, allsky release, AllWISE release, ...
For Spitzer, each legacy or exploration team produce a set of data, they are re leased with each team name or the program name
Sometimes a dataset includes both catalogs and images; sometimes only catalogs or images in a dataset.
Inside a dataset, they are further separated into smaller units, sometimes by type (catlog, image, spectrum).
Images can be further separated by level of data products (level1-single frame image, leve2-coadded image), and by wavelength (wise has 4 bands).
For each image, there are also ancillary data associated with it, like artifacts, uncertainty, coverage, PSF file, mask, ...
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IPAC table format
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