HILIGT, upper limit servers I — Overview
Saxton RD, König O, Descalzo M, Belanger G, Kretschmar P, Gabriel C, Evans PA, Ibarra A, Colomo E, Sarmiento M, Salgado J, Agrafojo A, Kuulkers E (2022)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2022
Journal
Book Volume: 38
Article Number: 100531
DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2021.100531
Abstract
The advent of all-sky facilities, such as the Neil Gehrels Swift observatory, the All Sky Automated Search for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), eROSITA and Gaia has led to a new appreciation of the importance of transient sources in solving outstanding astrophysical questions. Identification and catalogue cross-matching of transients has been eased over the last two decades by the Virtual Observatory but we still lack a client capable of providing a seamless, self-consistent, analysis of all observations made of a particular object by current and historical facilities. HILIGT is a web-based interface which polls individual servers written for XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL and other missions, to find the fluxes, or upper limits, from all observations made of a given target. These measurements are displayed as a table or a time series plot, which may be downloaded in a variety of formats. HILIGT currently works with data from X-ray and Gamma-ray observatories.
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University of Leicester
United Kingdom (GB)
European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
Spain (ES)
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC, ESA)
Netherlands (NL)
Technical University of Denmark / Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
Denmark (DK)
United Kingdom (GB)
European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
Spain (ES)
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC, ESA)
Netherlands (NL)
Technical University of Denmark / Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
Denmark (DK)
How to cite
APA:
Saxton, R.D., König, O., Descalzo, M., Belanger, G., Kretschmar, P., Gabriel, C.,... Kuulkers, E. (2022). HILIGT, upper limit servers I — Overview. Astronomy and Computing, 38. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2021.100531
MLA:
Saxton, R. D., et al. "HILIGT, upper limit servers I — Overview." Astronomy and Computing 38 (2022).
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