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| Paper: |
The IAP FUSE Database: a Virtual Observatory Interactive Web Tool |
| Volume: |
351, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XV |
| Page: |
475 |
| Authors: |
Desert, J.-M.; Hebrard, G.; Lecavelier des Etangs, A.; Ferlet, R.; Vidal-Madjar, A.; Chilingarian, I. |
| Abstract: |
We have developed a database containing more than four thousands FUSE (Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer) public observations at IAP, Paris. FUSE is a NASA/CNES-supported astronomy mission that was launched on June 24, 1999, to explore the Universe using the technique of high-resolution spectroscopy in the far-ultraviolet spectral region (see http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/). Up to now, more than four thousands FUSE public observations are available and the telescope is still observing. This database is an user friendly and interactive tool to sort out the data using various criteria, to cross correlate or apply real time calculations on the spectrum, in order to visualize and to retrieve datasets. To improve its capabilities, this database is linked to the MAST and the CDS and appear in the Vizier tool. We have developed this interactive web-accessed database to provide to the community an easy way to access the data (see http://fuse.iap.fr). This work was supported by the CNES (the French space agency)
We have developed an SSAP (simple spectral access protocol) for this database in collaboration with others spectral databases in the fields of stars and galaxies. Now that we have registered this database in the NVO registry, the spectrum are accessible by everyone using any VO-compliant tools without knowing the database or the FUSE programme itself.
Here we present how we have been able to simply convert our already existing UV spectral database into a VO object. We show how we connected this database within the VO, and present the set of tools that we have developed and which are accessible for the community to convert the FUSE fits data into VOTable format. |
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