Archives of Photographic PLates for Astronomical USE

Archives of photographic plates (applause_dr4.archive)

The table has 27 rows, 12 columns.

Description

An archive in APPLAUSE is a collection of plates, logbooks, other metadata on plate covers and notes, and extracted data that originate from a specific instrument. The archive table contains one row for each plate archive.

An archive is defined by Institution, Observatory location, Instrument. Unique Identifier archive_id

Attribution

If you have made substantial use of the data provided by APPLAUSE DR4, 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 Nürnberg/Erlangen), the Hamburger Sternwarte (University of Hamburg) and Tartu Observatory. Plate material also has been made available from Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, and from the archives of the Vatican Observatory.

Columns

Name Type UCD Unit Description
archive_id int meta.id

Archive identification number

archive_name char meta.id
meta.dataset

Archive name

institute char meta.id
instr.obsty

Institute responsible for the archive

num_plates int meta.number

Number of digitised plates in the archive

num_scans int meta.number

Number of scans in the archive

num_direntries int meta.number

Number of metadata entries in a directory

num_logbookpages int meta.number

Number of digitised logbook pages in the archive

num_envelopes int meta.number

Number of digitised envelopes in the archive

num_notes int meta.number

Number of digitised notes in the archive

num_logbooks int meta.number

Number of digitised logbooks in the archive

timestamp_insert char time.creation Time[yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss]

Timestamp of insert

timestamp_update char time.creation Time[yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss]

Timestamp of update