Documentation

Introduction

Astroplus is a interactive web where you could upload masive stars spectra in FITS or ASCII format. You also have the possibility to upload derived parameters to the upload stars, they will be standarized, via ingesta and upload to the database.

Description of the work flow:

  • Spectra upload in FITS or ASCII
  • Check the uploaded spectra, if it's not processed right you will have to reprocess the files, no need to upload them again
  • Confirms the correct upload and they are sent to the administrator
  • The administrator check the files. If they are not correct, you might recieve a message, and check again

Overview and Setup

The ASTRO+ database spectroscopic upload interface is a web based application that is designed to facilitate the addition of spectroscopic data into the ASTRO+ database. No user setup is required and nothing is required to be downloaded or installed. To upload spectroscopic data to the ASTRO+ database, two file types are accepted:

  • FITS
  • ASCII

This section details the structure of the input FITS and ASCII files and defines the ASTRO+ file standards that users must use to upload spectra to the database. This will outline what we accept and what we do not accept and how to include these data into the tool. Give explicit examples of all types of acceptable uploads.

The structure of these files must be one of the ASTRO+ file standards and will be defined by the user using the interface (see Section 3.3 for details on data structure). There must be only one spectrum per file and preferably the spectra should be normalised to unity.

Upload a spectra

A well defined master catalogue is an important part of the upload process. The input catalogue must be in a specific format separated by spaces. The required fields, along with their associated ranges, are detailed in Table 3. As described in Section 3.1, there are several optional columns that can be provided in the ASCII master catalogue, these are described in Table 4. Each spectrum in the corresponding tarball must have an entry in this catalogue, otherwise it will not be processed. An example catalogue is shown in Figure 1.

This section details the structure of the input FITS and ASCII files and defines the ASTRO+ file standards that users must use to upload spectra to the database. This will outline what we accept and what we do not accept and how to include these data into the tool. Give explicit examples of all types of acceptable uploads.

Screenshot of the upload interface
Screenshot of the upload interface

The catalogue file that is uploaded must have the extension “.csv”, otherwise the file will not be accepted.

Review

Once the spectra us uploaded you cn inspect it and check the data.

Search for spectra

Once the spectra is fully uploaded it will move to the science Database, where user will be able to search it.