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WUPPE FITS Keywords

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


Keyword Reference(s) Comments/Notes
GENERAL KEYWORDS
EXTNAME See FITS standards document FITS convention for naming table extension spectral container
EQUINOX The original WUPPE data used 1950 coordinates (see primary header keywords). These values were precessed using the routine PRECESS from the ASTRON IDL library. Comments here
RADECSYS FK5 coordinates were calculated by the PRECESS routine from the IDL ASTRON library. FK5
TIMESYS ? UTC? Time system
MJDREF 0.00000 [d] MJD zero point for times
SPECSYS topocent, no heliocentric-correction?
VOCLASS 'SPECTRUM V1.0' VO Data Model
VOSEGT 'SPECTRUM' Segment type
DATALEN derived from data [ ] Number of points in spectrum
DSSOURCE 'POINTED' Survey or Pointed
DATA ID KEYWORDS
DATE from DATE keyword Processing-Creation Date
VODATE from IDL "today" command Curation Date
VOREF 'http://archive.stsci.edu/vodocs/wuppe' URL for Documentation
DS_IDENT derived from filename Publishers Data Set ID
VERSION '1.0' Processing Version
COLLECT 'ASTRO/WUPPE' Data Set Collection
INSTRUME from OBSERVAT keyword Instrument
TELESCOP 'WUPPE' Telescope
FILENAME derived from FILENAME keyword File Name
CR_IDENT derived from FILENAME keyword Internal dataset ID
CRETYPE 'Archival' Not an on-the-fly dataset
CURATION KEYWORDS
VOPUB 'MAST' VO Publishing Authority
AUTHOR 'WUPPE project' Creator
VOPUBID 'ivo://mast.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 Arthur D. Code Principal Investigator
CONTACT 'archive help desk' Comments here
EMAIL 'archive@stsci.edu' Comments here
TARGET KEYWORDS
OBJECT from OBJECT keyword proposer's target name
TITLE derived from filename and target name Program Identification
RA_TARG precessed from RA keyword [deg] right ascension of target
DEC_TARG precessed from DEC keyword [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
COVERAGE: SPATIAL
RA precessed from RA keyword [deg] project-defined right ascension
DEC precessed from DEC keyword [deg] project-defined declination
APERTURE derived from APERTURE keyword [arcsec] Aperture (radius or lengthxwidth)
COVERAGE: TEMPORAL
DATE-OBS derived from DATE-OBS and GMTSTART keywords UT observation start time (only specified to nearest minute)
EXPOSURE from EXPOSURE keyword [s] exposure duration
TSTART derived from DATE-OBS and GMTSTART converted to MJD using JULDATE procedure from IDL ASTRON library [d] MJD exposure start time
TSTOP derived from DATE-OBS, GMTSTART + EXPOSURE keywords converted to MJD using JULDATE procedure from IDL ASTRON library [d] MJD exposure stop time
TMID average of TSTART and TSTOP derived values [d] MJD exposure mid time
COVERAGE: SPECTRAL
SPECSDIM '1.0E-10 L' Comments here
SPEC_CAL Calibrated spectral coordinate
SPEC_ERR 6 A resolution(?) from http://www.sal.wisc.edu/WUPPE/instrument/instrument.html [angstrom] Wavelength statistical error
SPECBAND based on derived wavelength range and classifications by Paolo Padovani using the MAST program vo_specband Far-UV, Near-UV Spectral Band(s)
SPEC_VAL derived from data [angstrom] Mean Wavelength
SPEC_BW derived from data [angstrom] Bandpass Width Wmax - Wmin
SPEC_FIL 1.00000 ? [ ] No gaps between points
SPEC_RP 400(?) [ ] average resolving power W/dW
COVERAGE: OBSERVABLE
FLUXSDIM '1.0E+7 ML-1T-3' Flux SIDim
FLUX_CAL private commnication from marilyn Meade and from comments in FITS header Fluxes are relative
STAT_ERR from http://www.sal.wisc.edu/WUPPE/calibration/calibration.html Note from WUPPE web page http://www.sal.wisc.edu/WUPPE/calibration/calibration.html: due to pointing system problems the absolute fluxes of some targets observed through smaller apertures are low by up to a factor of two.
DER_SNR derived value. See der_snr.pdf [ ] Derived signal-to-noise ratio
FLUXAVG derived from data [erg/cm**2/s/angstrom] Average Flux
FLUXMAX2 derived from data [erg/cm**2/s/angstrom] 98% Maximum Flux
SPECDISP derived from data (Wmax-Wmin)/npts [angstrom/pixel] Dispersion