Information on Service 'Bochum Galactic Disk Survey (BGDS) light curves browser service'

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From the Bochum Galactic Disk Survey, time series have been obtained in the r and i bands on an (up to) nightly basis. Depending on the field, the time series contain up to more than 300 nights over more than 7 years. Each measurement represents the averaged flux over 10 minutes of observation (from 9 averaged 10s images).

The Bochum Galactic Disk Survey is an ongoing project to monitor the stellar content of the Galactic disk in a 6 degree wide stripe centered on the Galactic plane. The data has been recorded since mid-2010 in Sloan r and i simultaneously with the Robotic Bochum Twin Telescope (RoBoTT) at the Universitaetssternwarte Bochum near Cerro Armazones in the Chilean Atacama desert. It contains measurements of about 2x10^7 stars over more than seven years. Additionally, intermittent measurements in Johnson UVB and Sloan z have been recorded as well.

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Spatial Coverage

Input Fields

The following fields are available to provide input to the service (with some renderers, some of these fields may be unavailable):

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
amp Amplitude Difference between brightest and weakest observation. mag phot.mag;arith.diff
field Field Survey field observed. N/A meta.id;obs.field
mean_mag 〈mag〉 Mean magnitude in band given in phot_band. mag phot.mag;stat.mean
ssa_bandpass Bandpass Bandpass (i.e., rough spectral location) of this dataset; this should be the most appropriate term from the vocabulary http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/messenger. N/A instr.bandpass
ssa_location Location ICRS location of aperture center deg pos.eq

Default Output Fields

The following fields are contained in the output by default. More fields may be available for selection; these would be given below in the VOTable output fields.

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
accref Product key Access key for the data N/A meta.ref.url;meta.dataset
amp Amplitude Difference between brightest and weakest observation. mag phot.mag;arith.diff
location_dec Dec N/A deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main
location_ra RA N/A deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main
mean_mag 〈mag〉 Mean magnitude in band given in phot_band. mag phot.mag;stat.mean
ssa_bandpass Bandpass Bandpass (i.e., rough spectral location) of this dataset; this should be the most appropriate term from the vocabulary http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/messenger. N/A instr.bandpass
time_max Last Obs Last timestamp in time series (MJD Topocentric UTC) d time.epoch;stat.max
time_min 1. Obs First timestamp in time series (MJD Topocentric UTC) d time.epoch;stat.min

VOTable Output Fields

The following fields are available in VOTable output. The verbosity level is a number intended to represent the relative importance of the field on a scale of 1 to 30. The services take a VERB argument. A field is included in the output if their verbosity level is less or equal VERB*10.

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD Verb. Level
accref Product key Access key for the data N/A meta.ref.url;meta.dataset 1
obs_id Obs_id Main identifier of this observation (a single object may have multiple observations in different bands and fields) N/A meta.id;meta.main 1
time_min 1. Obs First timestamp in time series (MJD Topocentric UTC) d time.epoch;stat.min 1
time_max Last Obs Last timestamp in time series (MJD Topocentric UTC) d time.epoch;stat.max 1
ra Ra ICRS right ascension for this object. N/A pos.eq.ra;meta.main 1
dec Dec ICRS declination for this object. N/A pos.eq.dec;meta.main 1
ssa_location Location ICRS location of aperture center deg pos.eq 5
ssa_dateObs Date Obs. Midpoint of exposure (MJD) d time.epoch 5
ssa_timeExt Exp. Time Exposure duration s time.duration 5
ssa_length Length Number of points in the spectrum N/A N/A 5
mean_mag 〈mag〉 Mean magnitude in band given in phot_band. mag phot.mag;stat.mean 5
accsize File size Size of the data in bytes byte N/A 11
ssa_dstitle Title A compact and descriptive designation of the dataset. N/A meta.title;meta.dataset 15
ssa_creatorDID C. DID Dataset identifier assigned by the creator N/A meta.id 15
ssa_pubDID P. DID Dataset identifier assigned by the publisher N/A meta.ref.ivoid 15
ssa_cdate Proc. Date Processing/Creation date N/A time;meta.dataset 15
ssa_pdate Pub. Date Date last published. N/A N/A 15
ssa_bandpass Bandpass Bandpass (i.e., rough spectral location) of this dataset; this should be the most appropriate term from the vocabulary http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/messenger. N/A instr.bandpass 15
ssa_cversion C. Version Creator assigned version for this dataset (will be incremented when this particular item is changed). N/A meta.version;meta.dataset 15
ssa_targname Object Common name of object observed. N/A meta.id;src 15
ssa_targclass Ob. cls Object class (star, QSO,...; use Simbad object classification http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-display?data=otypes if at all possible) N/A src.class 15
ssa_redshift z Redshift of target object N/A src.redshift 15
ssa_targetpos Obj. pos Equatorial (ICRS) position of the target object. N/A pos.eq;src 15
ssa_snr SNR Signal-to-noise ratio estimated for this dataset N/A stat.snr 15
ssa_aperture Aperture Angular diameter of aperture deg phys.angSize;instr.fov 15
ssa_specmid Mid. Band Midpoint of region covered in this dataset m instr.bandpass 15
ssa_specext Bandwidth Width of the spectrum m instr.bandwidth 15
ssa_specstart Band start Lower value of spectral coordinate m em.wl;stat.min 15
ssa_specend Band end Upper value of spectral coordinate m em.wl;stat.max 15
ssa_dstype Data type Type of data (spectrum, time series, etc) N/A N/A 15
ssa_publisher Publisher Publisher of the datasets included here. N/A meta.curation 15
ssa_creator Creator Creator of the datasets included here. N/A N/A 15
ssa_collection Collection A short handle naming the collection this spectrum belongs to. N/A N/A 15
ssa_instrument Instrument Instrument or code used to produce these datasets N/A meta.id;instr 15
ssa_datasource Src Method of generation for the data (one of survey, pointed, theory, custom, artificial). N/A N/A 15
ssa_creationtype Using Process used to produce the data (archival, cutout, filtered, mosaic, projection, spectralExtraction, or catalogExtraction) N/A N/A 15
ssa_reference Ref. URL or bibcode of a publication describing this data. N/A meta.bib.bibcode 15
ssa_fluxStatError Err. flux Statistical error in flux s**-1 stat.error;phot.flux.density;em 15
ssa_fluxSysError Sys. Err flux Systematic error in flux s**-1 stat.error.sys;phot.flux.density;em 15
ssa_fluxcalib Calib Flux Type of flux calibration (ABSOLUTE, CALIBRATED, RELATIVE, NORMALIZED, or UNCALIBRATED). N/A N/A 15
ssa_binSize Spect. Bin Bin size in wavelength m em.wl;spect.binSize 15
ssa_spectStatError Err. Spect Statistical error in wavelength m stat.error;em 15
ssa_spectSysError Sys. Err. Spect Systematic error in wavelength m stat.error.sys;em 15
ssa_speccalib Calib. Spect. Type of wavelength calibration N/A meta.code.qual 15
ssa_specres Spec. Res. Resolution (in meters of wavelength) on the spectral axis m spect.resolution;em.wl 15
amp Amplitude Difference between brightest and weakest observation. mag phot.mag;arith.diff 15
field Field Survey field observed. N/A meta.id;obs.field 15
mime Type MIME type of the file served N/A meta.code.mime 20
owner Owner Owner of the data N/A N/A 25
embargo Embargo ends Date the data will become/became public a N/A 25
mjds T[] An array containing the epochs of the time series d time.epoch 30
mags mag[] An array containing the values of the time series. mag phot.mag 30

If you use GDS data, please cite 2015AN....336..590H.

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