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  vertical line   Data service information is currently stored as keyword=value files which can be accessed over the web as:
 http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/vo/arcdata?arcnum=number&name=name&prodnum=number

Here are the meanings of the keywords in the data service data file: spectorphotometric flux local Keyword PROGRAM Keyword PROGRAM
arcbib Bibcode of primary publication describing this data collection
calarch
calprod Are there calibration services? (yes or no)
calprodt Calibration products, such as calibration lamp
calvo velocity standards
confdet Detector
confdig
conffilt
confgrat
confprod
conftarg OBJECT
conftel telescope
coorrep
dataqual Is there explicit data quality information? yes or no
dataquali How does one use quality info
to distinguish between data sets?
dataqualp Is there a per-observation quality flag in the data? yes or no
dataunc Data uncertainties: ("None","With data","Data file extension", "Associated data service","Other"
datauno Data uncertainties, if "Other"
dataunp Data uncertainty data service, if "Associated data service"
fidcomp
fidproc bias, flat-field, wavelength calibration
fidstate How far as data been reduced? "raw","semi","full","other"
fidstato Data reduction state, if other
prodform Data Form: "Table","2D Image","1D Image","Hypermap","Hypercube", "Hyperimage","Mosaic Image","Bit Stream","Structured Binary", "Multi Data-Type Object","other"
prodformat Data Format: "ASCII","FITS","VOTable","Web Page","Other"
prodformato Data Format, if "Other" in prodformat options
prodformo Data Form, if "Other" in prodform options
prodinfo Unique ID
prodkey Standards to which header keywords adhere
prodkeyo
prodkeyu
prodname Data service name
prodsamp URL for sample of this data service
produrl URL to description of this data service
provobs
provprog
provsub
rangdate1 Starting date of data collection in FITS/ISO format yyyy-mm-dd
rangdate2 Ending date of data collection in FITS/ISO format yyyy-mm-dd
rangflux1 Flux minimum
rangflux2 Flux maximum
rangfluxu Flux units
rangfreq1 Wavelength/frequency/energy minimum in rangfrequ units
rangfreq2 Wavelength/frequency/energy maximum in rangfrequ units
rangfrequ Wavelength/frequency/energy units
rangpol Polarization range
rangspat Spatial range, such as "northern hemisphere"
resflux Flux resolution in resfluxu units
resfluxu Flux units (counts allowed)
resfreq Wavelength/frequency/energy resolution in rangfrequ units
respol Resolution in polarization
respolt
resspat Spatial resolution
restime time resolution (exposure time)
velocity
velocityu Velocity units


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Last updated: 2003-October-03