SuperCOSMOS Science Archive (SSA)

The 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) 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.

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/wfau.roe.ac.uk/ssa-tap
Related Identifier http://surveys.roe.ac.uk/ssa
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/ssa-tap
Provenance
Creator WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Publisher WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Publication Year 2017
OpenAccess true
Contact Mark Holliman <msh(at)roe.ac.uk>
Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Version Data Release 1
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics