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BEFS FITS Keywords

References and comments on FITS keywords are listed below. See main page for background.


Keyword Reference(s) Comments/Notes
GENERAL KEYWORDS
EXTNAME 'Spectral Container' VO spectral container format
EQUINOX from EQUINOX keyword Comments here
RADECSYS 'FK5' Comments here
TIMESYS 'UTC' Time system
MJDREF 0.00000 [d] MJD zero point for times
SPECSYS 'HELIOCEN'? heliocentric wavelengths
VOCLASS 'SPECTRUM V1.0' VO Data Model
VOSEGT 'SPECTRUM' Segment type
DATALEN derived from data [ ] Number of points in spectrum
DSSOURCE 'POINTED' Survey or Pointed
DATA ID KEYWORDS
DATE from DATE keyword Processing-Creation Date
VODATE from IDL "today" command Curation Date
VOREF 'http://archive.stsci.edu/vodocs/hst/befs' URL for Documentation
DS_IDENT 'ads/sa.orfeus#befs2218_spd1' Publishers Data Set ID
VERSION '1.0' Processing Version
COLLECT 'BEFS' Data Set Collection
INSTRUME 'BEFS' Instrument
TELESCOP 'ORFEUS' Telescope
FILENAME 'befs2218_spd1_vo.fits' File Name
CR_IDENT 'befs2218_spd1' Internal dataset ID
CRETYPE 'Archival' Not an on-the-fly dataset
CURATION KEYWORDS
VOPUB 'MAST' VO Publishing Authority
AUTHOR 'BEFS project' Creator
VOPUBID 'archive.stsci.edu' URI for VO Publisher
VOLOGO 'http://archive.stsci.edu/images/100.mastlogo.gif' MAST logo
VOVER '1.0' VO Curation version
VORIGHTS 'PUBLIC' Data is public
CONTRIB1 for BEFS2, derived from SPN keyword and private communication from Juergen Barnstedt For BEFS1 which had no PI program, it is set to "BEFS project" Orfeus PI
CONTACT 'archive help desk' Comments here
EMAIL 'archive@stsci.edu' Comments here
TARGET KEYWORDS
OBJECT from OBJECT keyword proposer's target name
SRCCLASS from OBJ_TYPE keyword Object Class
TITLE derived from file name and target name filename, object
RA_TARG from RA_OBJ keyword [deg] right ascension of target
DEC_TARG from DEC_OBJ keyword [deg] declination of target
WCS Paper 3 Keywords
1S2_1 'WAVE' Column name with spectral coordinates
1CYTP2 'WAVE-TAB' Spectral coordinate is wavelength
1S3_1 'WAVE' Column name with spectral coordinates
1CYTP3 'WAVE-TAB' Spectral coordinate is wavelength
COVERAGE: SPATIAL
RA from RA_OBJ keyword [deg] right ascension of aperture
DEC from DEC_OBJ keyword [deg] declination of aperture
APERTURE derived from DIAPHRAM keyword [arcsec] Aperture (width or lengthxwidth)
COVERAGE: TEMPORAL
DATE-OBS from DATE-OBS keyword UT observation start time
EXPOSURE from EXPTIME keyword [sec] exposure duration
TSTART derived from MJDREF and TSTART keywords [d] MJD exposure start time
TSTOP derived from MJDREF and TSTOP keywords [d] MJD exposure stop time
TMID derived from TSTART and TSTOP [d] MJD exposure mid time
COVERAGE: SPECTRAL
SPECSDIM '1.0E-10 L' Comments here
SPEC_CAL Calibrated spectral coordinate
SPEC_ERR 0.0500? [angstrom] Wavelength statistical error
SPECBAND 'Extreme-UV,Far-UV' Spectral Band(s)
SPEC_VAL derived from data [angstrom] Mean Wavelength
SPEC_BW derived from data [angstrom] Bandpass Width Wmax - Wmin
SPEC_FIL 1.0? [ ] No gaps between points
SPEC_RP ? [ ] average resolving power W/dW
COVERAGE: OBSERVABLE
FLUXSDIM '1.0E+7 ML-1T-3' Flux SIDim
FLUX_CAL Calibrated Fluxes
STAT_ERR 10? [ ] flux error in percent
DER_SNR Stoehr et all. 2007 Space Telescope coordination Fac. NL 42,4. See der_snr.pdf [ ] Mean signal-to-noise ratio
FLUXAVG derived from data [erg/cm**2/s/angstrom] Average Flux
FLUXMAX2 derived from data [erg/cm**2/s/angstrom] 98% Maximum Flux
SPECDISP derived from data [angstrom/pixel] Dispersion