2024-03-29T05:22:14Zivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/ssa-tap2022-03-08T14:20:30ZIWFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of EdinburghSuperCOSMOS Science Archive (SSA)WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh2017Digitised photographic optical all-sky photometric astrometric surveyVirtual observatoryCatalogsADQLobservational-astronomyinterdisciplinary-astronomyMark Holliman <msh@roe.ac.uk>AstroDataivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/ssa-taphttp://surveys.roe.ac.uk/ssaapplication/xmlData Release 1The SuperCOSMOS data held in the SSA primarily originate from scans of Palomar and UK Schmidt blue, red and near-IR southern sky surveys. The ESO Schmidt R (de
c < -17.5) and Palomar POSS-I E (dec > -17.5) surveys have also been scanned and provide a 1st epoch red measurement. Further details on the surveys, the scanning process and the
raw parameters extracted can be found on the further information link. The SSA is housed in a relational database running on Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Data are stored in tables which
are inter-linked via reference ID numbers. In addition to the astronomical object catalogues these tables also contain information on the plates that were scanned, survey field centre
s and calibration coefficients. Most user science queries will only need to access the SOURCE table or to a lesser extent the DETECTION table.