MAST IUE Abstract Search

HST and FUSE DADS retrievals will be down from Tuesday, September 2 through Wednesday Sept 3 for a DADS/OPUS installation. See list of alternative data sources. During part of this time, the database will also be down and so searches will be down during that time (HLA and GALEX are unaffected by this downtime).

IUE ABSTRACT SEARCH

Search the IUE proposal abstracts and/or proposal titles for specific strings of interest. You may also search the IUE abstracts database for a specific Guest Investigator (either in combination with a string search of the abstracts or alone). Abstracts are available for GSFC observing programs only and some of those are missing.

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Search Abstracts and/or Titles for words and phrases

You may now use the new IUE Abstract Search form to find IUE proposal abstracts and/or titles containing specific words or phrases. All IUE proposal abstracts matching your search expression will be displayed, along with some other information about the proposal and links to further information. The characters in the abstracts that matched your search expression will be rendered in red to make it easier to see why an abstract or title matched. Note that abstracts were only available for GSFC proposals. You may wish to search on both abstracts and titles.

Search expressions consist of words or phrases separated by commas. The search is insensitive to case. An abstract will match if it contains any of the words or phrases in the expression, unless the word or phrase is preceeded by a + or - sign. Prefix a word or phrase with a + when the word or phrase is required to be present in the abstract. Prefix a word or phrase with a - to exclude abstracts containing the word or phrase.

Complex queries or those matching a large number of abstracts, may take longer to complete and may result in a a very large results page. You may wish to see a list of papers, without the abstract and therefore may choose to not display the abstracts.

Here are some examples of how to use the syntax:

Expression	means
au mon	Finds every abstract containing au mon (or AU MON or AU Mon)
au mon, algol	Finds every abstract with either the phrase au mon OR the word algol.
au mon, +algol	Finds every abstract with both the phrase au mon AND the word algol.
io torus, -jupiter	Finds every abstract with the phrase io torus that does NOT contain the word jupiter

Search for Author and Program ID

You may also enter a name or list of names to search for proposals by a specific investigator. Note that the database contains only the name of the primary investigator. You may constrict searches on names in a similar manner as for words and phrases. Here are some examples:

Expression	means
Smith	Finds every name containing Smith
Smith, Myron	Finds every name with either Smith OR Myron.
Smith, +Myron	Finds every name with both Smith AND Myron.
Smith, -Myron	Finds every name with Smith AND that does NOT contain Myron

You may also use a wild card (*) when searching for a program id. GSFC IUE programs spanning more than one year were often given similar program IDs. For example entering CV*SS will display 11 programs on Galactic Novae by Sumner Starrfield.