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HEASARC Data Access

  • New Xamin Interfaces
  • Xamin Web InterfaceIntro   
    Our new faster and more powerful access to HEASARC data
    Xamin Batch InterfaceDownload   
    Use Xamin from the command line on your machine
  • Traditional Browse Interfaces   Tips Archive
  • Browse Mission Interface  
    Our traditional full-featured interface
    Browse Keyword Search
    Search-Engine-like query using keywords
    Browse Table Index
    List of all tables for each mission
    Browse Correlation
    Cross-correlation of full tables
    Browse Notification Service
    Get notified when new data is available in the archive
    Browse Batch InterfaceDownload  
    Perl scripts (by default these now query Xamin database)

  • CMB Data
  • CMB Missions and Projects
    Data from space-bourne and suborbital CMB experiments in LAMBDA
  • Specialized forms
  • KML Browse Interface
    Map Browse sources in Google Sky and other KML services
    Chandra FOV Search
    Search for targets within the active fields of view
    Argus Observation Monitor
    Search Browse proposal information for observation details and status
    Swift Data Query
    Search bursts and observations of the Swift mission

  • Direct Access to archive directories
  • HTTP or FTP

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    Other Resources

  • SkyView - An easy to use tool that returns digital images of the sky in any waveband from radio through to gamma rays
  • VAO DataScope - Query catalogs and services from the HEASARC and from around the world using a single form
  • Literature - Links to literature search engines and online versions of refereed journals and science magazines
  • Archive Information

  • Data restoration status of all data sets available from the HEASARC
  • Bibliography/Archive cross-reference status of HEASARC data sets with ADS-listed publications
  • Science results that used HEASARC data
  • The HEASARC Cookbook - how to find, download, and analyze data
  • Open Archive Policy - find out how you can integrate HEASARC resources into your Web site
  • Latest News

  • XSPEC 12.8.0l,m Released (20 May 2013)
    Released May 17, 2013. improves the handling of the corner cases where 1 or more norm parameters are set to zero during a fit. Also 12.8.0l released May 10, 2013 - fix for PyXspec bug affecting change is made to the response gain through one Python RModel object ...
  • XMM-Newton Cluster Survey Catalog, Data Release 1 (15 May 2013)
    This catalog of 503 clusters detected in the XMM-Newton Cluster Survey 1st Data Release (from Mehrtens et al. 2012, MNRAS, 423, 1024) is now available in Browse and (within half a day) Xamin.
  • XMM-Newton Survey Science Center Survey of the Galactic Plane (08 May 2013)
    This catalog of 739 X-ray sources detected by XMM-Newton, and their optical/infrared counterparts, in 26 fields along the Galactic Plane (from Nebot Gomez-Moran et al. 2013, A&A, 553, A12) is now available in Browse and (within half a day) Xamin.
  • Swift CALDB Updated (07 May 2013)
    The Swift Caldb has been updated for the SC (update version 20130507).
  • Radio-Selected Extended Chandra Deep Field South Source Catalog (06 May 2013)
    This catalog of the derived X-ray properties and redshifts of 268 radio-selected Chandra X-ray sources in the 4-Ms CDF-S and E-CDF-S fields (from Vattakunnel et al. 2012, MNRAS, 420, 2190) is now available in Browse and (within half a day) in Xamin.
  • Planck Catalog of Sunyaev-Zeldovich Sources Release 1 (03 May 2013)
    This table of 1227 clusters and cluster candidates detected by their S-Z effect on the CMB (from the Planck Collaboration 2013, A&A, in press) is now available in Browse and (within half a day) in Xamin.
  • NASA's Fermi, Swift See 'Shockingly Bright' Burst (03 May 2013)
    A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, and designated GRB 130427A, produced the highest-energy light ever detected from such an event.
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