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| Written by bill.smith |
| Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:35 |
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The Multimission Archive at Space Telescope Science Institute (MAST) is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.
If you are using the "WWT Client" you will be able to Click on the first row (Kepler Input Catalog) to see stars in the KIC. This is instant and very effective. The full database is over 13M stars (4.5M inside the Kepler FOV) but just a cone of 2,000 are download on each search. The Kepler Mission has also made available for us :
As at June 2010, the most important NEW dataset is the "Released Kepler Planetary Candidates" (312 potential exoplanets). This is not yet available as a "VO Cone Search" but will be very soon. For students wanting to explore the use of the NASA/MAST tools, datasets can also be downloaded from outside the WWT using MAST tools. |
| Last Updated on Thursday, 12 August 2010 11:23 |