Access to the catalogs and astronomical archives of the HEASARC

• XAMIN

  The primary graphical user interface portal for exploring the data holdings, including catalogs and data products.

  Web Portal GUI Data access APIs

• astroquery

  

  The astroquery.heasarc queries the main archive and astroquery.skyview queries SkyView imaging.

  astroquery.heasarc
  astroquery.skyview
  astroquery@HEASARC details

• Catalogs

  Documentation for the roughly one thousand catalogs held at HEASARC. The mission "master" catalogs describe the observations and hundreds of scientific object catalogs can be used in a cross-match.

  Catalog Index New and Updated Catalogs

• Skyview

  

  A powerful tool to visualize the sky with the largest collection of multiwavelength sky maps from the radio to the gamma-ray. This tool includes options for rebinning, interpolation, overplots, contours, etc.

  Details

• Data in the Cloud

  HEASARC data are available in multiple places including the AWS cloud and the SciServer platform.

  Cloud Data

• CMB Data

  

  Data from space-bourne and suborbital CMB experiments, as well as useful ancillary datasets.

  LAMBDA CMB Archive

Other Resources

• Classic Browse - This legacy interface for querying the HEASARC database and downloading data products remains available, but we encourage you to try the modern portal.
• Swift Data Query - A Browse interface customized for the Swift mission.
• Other command line tools for data downloads - A download script can be useful, and we also have tips on using wget and curl.
• Bibliography of HEASARC data sets with ADS-listed publications.
• Documentation for the HEASARC Database System - General description of the database system and the TDAT format used to serialize data and metadata for HEASARC catalogs.
• Open Archive Policy - Find out how you can integrate HEASARC resources into your website (to be updated).
• New and Updated Databases
• Deleted Databases
• Data restoration of pre-HEASARC datasets.
• Science results that used HEASARC data.