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STIS FITS keywords

References and comments on FITS keywords are listed below. See main page for background.


Keyword Reference(s) Comments/Notes
GENERAL KEYWORDS
EXTNAME 'Spectral Container' MAST VO spectral container format
EQUINOX 2000.00 Comments here
RADECSYS 'ICRS' Comments here
TIMESYS 'TT' Comments here
MJDREF 0.00000 [d] MJD zero point for times
SPECSYS 'HELIOCEN' Comments here
VOCLASS 'SPECTRUM V1.0' VO Data Model
VOSEGT 'SPECTRUM' Segment type
DATALEN 1024 [ ] Number of points in spectrum
DSSOURCE 'POINTED' Survey or Pointed
DATA ID KEYWORDS
DATE '2007-01-30T04:18:18' Processing-Creation Date
VODATE '2008-06-18' Curation Date
VOREF 'http://archive.stsci.edu/vodocs/hst/stis' URL for Documentation
DS_IDENT 'ads/sa.stis#o91o73050_x1d_vo.fits' Data Set Identifier
VERSION '1.0' Processing Version
COLLECT 'HST/STIS' Data Set Collection
INSTRUME 'STIS' Instrument
TELESCOP 'HST' Telescope
FILENAME 'o91o73050_x1d_vo.fits' File Name
CR_IDENT 'o91o73050' Internal dataset ID
CRETYPE 'Archival' Not an on-the-fly dataset
CURATION KEYWORDS
VOPUB 'MAST' VO Publishing Authority
AUTHOR 'HST project' Creator
VOPUBID 'archive.stsci.edu' URI for VO Publisher
VOLOGO 'http://archive.stsci.edu/images/100.mastlogo.gif' MAST logo
VOVER '1.0' VO Curation version
VORIGHTS 'PUBLIC' Data is public
CONTRIB1 10263 Program ID
CONTACT 'archive help desk' Comments here
EMAIL 'archive@stsci.edu' Comments here
TARGET KEYWORDS
OBJECT 'SN1987A-STIS' proposer's target name
TITLE 'o91o73050_x1d, SN1987A-STIS' filename, object
RA_TARG 83.8671250000 [deg] right ascension of target
DEC_TARG -69.2696805556 [deg] declination of target
WCS Paper 3 Keywords
1S2_1 'WAVE' Column name with spectral coordinates
1CYTP2 'WAVE-TAB' Spectral coordinate is wavelength
1S3_1 'WAVE' Column name with spectral coordinates
1CYTP3 'WAVE-TAB' Spectral coordinate is wavelength
1S4_1 'WAVE' Column name with spectral coordinates
1CYTP4 'WAVE-TAB' Spectral coordinate is wavelength
COVERAGE: SPATIAL
RA 83.8671250000 right ascension of target
DEC -69.2696805556 declination of target
APERTURE '52X0.2' [arcsec] aperture width or length x width
COVERAGE: TEMPORAL
DATE-OBS '2004-07-23T02:34:20' UT observation start time
EXPOSURE 1546.0000 [s] exposure duration
TSTART 53209.10718502 [d] MJD exposure start time
TSTOP 53209.12507854 [d] MJD exposure stop time
TMID 53209.11613178 [d] MJD exposure mid time
COVERAGE: SPECTRAL
SPECSDIM '1.0E-10 L' Comments here
SPEC_CAL 'ABSOLUTE' Calibrated spectral coordinate
SPEC_ERR 0.00000 [angstrom] Wavelength statistical error
SPECBAND 'Optical,Near-IR' Spectral Band(s)
SPEC_VAL 7753.062 [angstrom] Mean Wavelength
SPEC_BW 4991.988 [angstrom] Bandpass Width Wmax - Wmin
SPEC_FIL 1.00000 [ ] No gaps between points
SPEC_RP 790.00000 [ ] average resolving power W/dW
COVERAGE: OBSERVABLE
FLUXSDIM '1.0E+7 ML-1T-3' Comments here
FLUX_CAL 'ABSOLUTE' Calibrated or uncalibrated Fluxes
STAT_ERR 5 [ ] flux error in percent
DER_SNR 0.230 [ ] Mean signal-to-noise ratio
FLUXAVG 4.76452E-17 [erg/cm**2/s/angstrom] Average Flux
FLUXMAX2 5.43453E-16 [erg/cm**2/s/angstrom] 98% Maximum Flux
SPECDISP 4.875 [angstrom/pixel] Dispersion