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High-Level Science Products at MAST now include a new catalog of simulated high-z galaxy images for major observatories, along with a new collection of processed imaging of a dark vortex on Neptune. Updates were also made to the MSTARPANSPEC and TICA collections.
The first science data files used to create JWST's incredible First Images are now available through MAST! This process is ongoing in an effort to make all files available to the public as soon as possible, but there are a number of available options to download this first batch right away.
The first JWST science data will be released to users at MAST in stages over two days starting on July 13, 2022. In many cases, MAST will also provide bulk download scripts which pull the data from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
New High-Level Science Products at MAST include simulations of proper motions within stellar clusters, new SED models based on Spitzer calibration, predicted products for the Roman Space Telescope supernova survey, and a catalog of eclipsing binary stars found with TESS. Updates were made to the TICA collection of quick-look TESS data, and the newest data release for the ULLYSES collection.
New algorithms using data from Gaia EDR3 have been applied to the Pan-STARRS1 catalog at MAST to calculate improved positions and new proper motions for 1.7 billion objects having at least 3 detections in PS1 single-epoch images.
Hello Universe is a new project at MAST designed to help astronomers develop machine learning methods for astronomical discovery by providing combinations of data and tutorial code. Machine learning will be an essential tool for analyzing the rich data sets of the upcoming decade, and Hello Universe provides a framework for mastering machine learning algorithms and testing new techniques.
New High-Level Science Products at MAST include the largest Hubble imaging field in the near-infrared ever constructed, and the first release from a new collection that will eventually provide light curves for all stars brighter than 16th magnitude from the TESS Prime Mission. Updates include v2.0 of a collection of high-redshift luminous galaxy data, and the latest TESS quick-look full frame images.
The new 3D-DASH collection presents high-resolution imaging in the near-infrared, of an area of sky nearly seven times larger than the apparent full Moon. Using a novel technique to increase imaging speed, 157 orbits of Hubble observing time, and including HST imaging data from over the past decade, this collection represents a valuable legacy collection that will be useful for years to come.
The modernized MAST search form now supports searching data from the new CLASSY collection, as well as a number of new interface features including API script generation and support for exclusive-access data retrieval.
In the past few months, High-Level Science Products at MAST have added a new collection of simulated merging and non-merging galaxy images for HST and JWST, high-precision velocity fields from Jupiter's Great Red Spot, gravitational lensing models for galaxy clusters from SDSS, and a set of synthetic light curves and wavelet transforms for TESS FFI's, along with many updates to existing collections.
Multi-Visit Mosaics are a new Hubble Advanced Product available through MAST, which combine multiple observations of a given field into a set of products drizzled onto a common pre-defined pixel grid. Users can also create their own custom cutouts from these mosaics using the HAPCut.MAST API.
The new CLASSY High-Level Science Product provides a collection of high-resolution far-ultra violet spectra for 45 galaxies from Hubble. These co-added spectra come in various resolutions with multiple scientific use cases. The CLASSY collection also includes a number Jupyter notebook guides, and even a dedicated search portal.
High-Level Science Products at MAST now include two new collections of Kepler-based light curves, updates to existing collections of TESS products, and the fourth data release from the ULLYSES team.
The brand new Timeseries Integrated Knowledge Engine (TIKE) creates a Python-based platform for users to analyze data from TESS, K2, and Kepler directly in the cloud with no need for data downloads. It is equipped with numerous pre-configured Python libraries, and tutorials for learning more about working with MAST data in the cloud.
The latest updates to High-Level Science Products at MAST include a new morphological catalog for galaxies in the COSMOS field, the most recent global maps for several of the outer planets, updated instrument throughput tables for Hubble planning, and several Sectors-worth of new light curves and FFI previews for TESS.