APPLAUSE
Archives of Photographic PLates for Astronomical USE

The table has 25708 rows, 19 columns.

Description

The process table contains data on pyplate"s processing of source extraction and astrometric calibration of plate scans. Unique Identifier process_id

Attribution

If you have made substantial use of the data provided by APPLAUSE DR1, kindly include this acknowledgement

Funding for APPLAUSE has been provided by DFG (German Research Foundation, Grant), Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), Dr. Remeis Sternwarte Bamberg (University Nuernberg/Erlangen) and the Hamburger Sternwarte (University of Hamburg).

Columns

Name Type UCD Unit Description
process_id int meta.id
meta.main

Process identification number
scan_id int meta.id

Scan identification number
plate_id int meta.id

Plate identification number
archive_id int meta.id

Archive identification number
filename char meta.ref
meta.fits

Name of the processed file
hostname char meta.id

Name of the computer that carried out the plate process
timestamp_start char time.start
time.processing 		Time[yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss]

Timestamp of the start of process
timestamp_end char time.start
time.processing 		Time[yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss]

Timestamp of the end of process
duration int time.duration s

Duration of the process
sky float phot.count
em.opt

Sky background value
sky_sigma float stat.stdev
phot.count
em.opt

Standard deviation of the sky background value
use_psf short meta.code

1 if PSF fitting was used in the process, 0 otherwise
threshold float phot.count
em.opt

Threshold above which sources were detected
num_sources int meta.number

Number of sources extracted from the image
solved short meta.code.status

1 if astrometric solution was found for the image, 0 otherwise
num_ucac4 int meta.number

Number of matched UCAC4 catalogue objects
num_tycho2 int meta.number

Number of matched Tycho-2 catalogue objects
completed short meta.code.status

1 if process was completed, 0 otherwise
pyplate_version char meta.version
meta.software

Version number of the PyPlate software used for the process
Access

You can access this table using the query interface and download the results afterwards.

Digital object identifier

You can use the following DOI to cite this table in a publication:

https://doi.org/10.17876/plate/dr.1/008

License

This dataset is published under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).