Table information for 'lamost6.lowres'

General

Table Description: Metadata of LAMOST DR6 low resolution spectra. This table is only used to feed the ssa_lrs view; use that to query data in this table.

This table is not available for ADQL queries and through the TAP endpoint.

Resource Description: LAMOST, the The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (or Guoshoujing Telescope) is an instrument tailored for producing large number of optical medium- and low-resolution spectra. Here, we publish both the medium (MRS) and low (LRS) resolution spectra from Data Release 6, http://dr6.lamost.org/v2/, to the Virtual Observatory.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'LAMOST DR6 Spectra'

Citing this table

This table has an associated publication. If you use data from it, it may be appropriate to reference http://dr6.lamost.org/v2/ either in addition to or instead of the service reference.

To cite the table as such, we suggest the following BibTeX entry:

@MISC{vo:lamost6_lowres,
  year=2020,
  title={{LAMOST} DR6 Spectra},
  author={National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences},
  url={http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/lamost6.lowres},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center}
}

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
accref Product key Access key for the data N/A meta.ref.url
owner Owner Owner of the data N/A N/A
embargo Embargo ends Date the data will become/became public a N/A
mime Type MIME type of the file served N/A meta.code.mime
accsize File size Size of the data in bytes byte VOX:Image_FileSize
ssa_location Location ICRS location of aperture center deg pos.eq
ssa_region Coverage Rough coverage based on location and aperture. N/A pos.outline;obs.field
ssa_dateObs Date Obs. Midpoint of exposure (MJD) d time.epoch
obsid Obsid Unique identifier for the observation; LAMOST observations typically result in multiple spectra. N/A meta.id;obs
designation Target Target Designation (IAU style) N/A meta.id
planid Plan Identifier of the observation plan N/A meta.id;obs.proposal
spid SG id Identifier of the Spectragraph that took the source spectrum. N/A meta.id;instr
fiberid Fiber Identifier of the fiber used to take the source spectrum N/A meta.id;instr
ra_obs Fiber RA ICRS right ascension of the fiber pointing (can be different from ra for bright sources). deg pos.eq.ra
dec_obs Fiber Dec ICRS declination of the fiber pointing deg pos.eq.dec
ssa_snr SNR Median signal to noise ratio over all pixel, computed as flux/sqrt(variance) N/A stat.snr
objtype Ob. type Object type: star, k2star, fs, rvcandi, gal N/A meta.code.class
magtype Mag.Type Designation of the bands of the magnitudes in mag_arr; this is not easy to parse by a machine, sorry. N/A meta.code
mag_arr Mags. An array of derived magnitudes. See mag_types for the bands these magnitudes are intended for. N/A phot.mag
fibertype Fiber Fiber Type of target (one of Obj, Sky, F-std, Unused, PosErr, Dead) N/A meta.code;instr
target_comment Comment Various comments (e.g., an external target id). N/A meta.note
offset_v Offset Offset of the observation from the target coordinate (these are added for bright objects to prevent saturation). arcsec instr.offset
ra Target RA ICRS right ascension for this object from input catalogue deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main
dec Target Dec ICRS declination for this object from input catalogue deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main
ssa_redshift z Redshift as estimated by the LAMOST pipeline. N/A src.redshift
z_err σ_z Error in ssa_redshift as estimated by the LAMOST pipeline. N/A stat.error;src.redshift

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Copyright and such:

Guoshoujing Telescope (the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope LAMOST) is a National Major Scientific Project built by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Funding for the project has been provided by the National Development and Reform Commission. LAMOST is operated and managed by the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Please also see the LAMOST Data Policy.