TGCat, The Chandra Transmission Grating Catalog and Archive: Systems, Desgin and Accessibility
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Mitschang, Arik W.
Huenemoerder, David P.
Nichols, Joy S.
Date Issued
October 2009
Journal
Proceedings of the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIX Conference, ADASS XIX
Publisher
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Citation
Mitschang, Arik W., David P. Huenemoerder and Joy S. Nichols. "TGCat, The Chandra Transmission Grating Catalog and Archive: Systems, Desgin and Accessibility." Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIX,(ASP Conference Series, Vol. XXX), 2009, Y. Mizumoto, K.-I. Morita, and M. Ohishi, eds. p. 1-5.
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Abstract
The recently released Chandra Transmission Grating Catalog and Archive, TGCat, presents a fully dynamic on-line catalog allowing users to browse and categorize Chandra gratings observations quickly and easily, generate custom plots of resulting response corrected spectra on-line without the need for special software and to download analysis ready products from multiple observations in one convenient operation. TGCat has been registered as a VO resource with the NVO providing direct access to the catalogs interface. The catalog is supported by a back-end designed to automatically fetch newly public data, process, archive and catalog them, At the same time utilizing an advanced queue system integrated into the archive's MySQL database allowing large processing projects to take advantage of an unlimited number of CPUs across a network for rapid completion. A unique feature of the catalog is that all of the high level functions used to retrieve inputs from the Chandra archive and to generate the final data products are available to the user in an ISIS written library with detailed documentation. Here we present a structural overview of the Systems, Design, and Accessibility features of the catalog and archive.
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MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1001.0039
