List of Fields available via Retrieve
Name | Storage | Units | Description | Default | All |
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extra_files | CORE | — | Additional files read for ingest | ✘ | ✘ |
redshift_warning | CORE | — | Bitmask with warning on redshift result | ✘ | ✔ |
datasetgroup | CORE | — | [Categorical] Common name for a coherent set of spectra published as a single release (e.g., SDSS_BOSS) | ✘ | ✔ |
data_release | CORE | — | [Categorical] Data release of a given record (with a common data structure, e.g., SDSS-DR16, BOSS-DR16) | ✘ | ✔ |
instrument | CORE | — | [Categorical] Instrument used for observation | ✘ | ✔ |
site | CORE | — | [Categorical] Site of observations | ✘ | ✔ |
spectype | CORE | — | [Categorical] Spectral type of the object (STAR, GALAXY, QSO) | ✘ | ✔ |
telescope | CORE | — | [Categorical] Telescope used for the observation | ✘ | ✔ |
dateobs_center | CORE | — | Central value of the dateobs range | ✘ | ✔ |
targetid | CORE | — | Dataset-specific photometric target identifier | ✘ | ✔ |
specid | CORE | — | Dataset-specific spectrum identifier (may not be unique) | ✔ | ✔ |
updated | CORE | — | Date and time when the record was created/updated | ✘ | ✘ |
dec | CORE | deg | Declination in degrees | ✔ | ✔ |
exptime | CORE | second | Exposure time in seconds | ✘ | ✔ |
file | CORE | — | File used for this record | ✘ | ✘ |
wavemax | CORE | AA | Maximum value of wavelength coverage in Angstroms | ✘ | ✔ |
redshift | CORE | — | Measured redshift, or radial velocity in units of redshift | ✘ | ✔ |
wavemin | CORE | AA | Minimum value of wavelength coverage in Angstroms | ✘ | ✔ |
dateobs | CORE | — | Range of observational dates for a given spectrum (single value for a single date) | ✘ | ✔ |
ra | CORE | deg | Right Ascension in degrees | ✔ | ✔ |
redshift_err | CORE | — | Uncertainty on the measured redshift, or radial velocity in units of redshift | ✘ | ✔ |
sparcl_id | CORE | — | Universally Unique Identifier for spectrum in SPARCL | ✔ | ✔ |
specprimary | CORE | — | Whether an entry is the primary spectrum for a given target object | ✘ | ✔ |
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Name | Storage | Units | Description | Default | All |
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ancillary_target1 | AUX | — | BOSS ancillary science target selection information at plate design | ✘ | ✔ |
ancillary_target2 | AUX | — | BOSS ancillary target selection information at plate design | ✘ | ✔ |
anyandmask | AUX | — | For each bit, records whether any pixel in the spectrum has that bit set in its ANDMASK | ✘ | ✔ |
anyormask | AUX | — | For each bit, records whether any pixel in the spectrum has that bit set in its ORMASK | ✘ | ✔ |
bluefiber | AUX | — | Set to 1 if this hole was designated a blue fiber, 0 if designated a red fiber (high redshift LRGs are preferentially in red fibers) | ✘ | ✔ |
boss_specobj_id | AUX | — | Identification number internal to BOSS for SPECBOSS=1 objects | ✘ | ✔ |
boss_target1 | AUX | — | Primary (science) target flags for BOSS targets | ✘ | ✔ |
boss_target2 | AUX | — | Always set to zero (placeholder for BOSS target flags never used) | ✘ | ✔ |
calibflux | AUX | nanomaggy | ugriz fluxes used for calibrations | ✘ | ✔ |
calibflux_ivar | AUX | nanomaggy-2 | Inverse variances of ugriz fluxes used for calibrations | ✘ | ✔ |
chi68p | AUX | — | 68-th percentile value of abs(chi) of the best-fit synthetic spectrum to the actual spectrum (around 1.0 for a good fit) | ✘ | ✔ |
chunk | AUX | — | Name of tiling chunk that this spectrum was tiled in (boss1, boss2, etc), important for tracking large-scale structure samples | ✘ | ✔ |
class_noqso | AUX | — | Spectroscopic classification for Z_NOQSO redshift | ✘ | ✔ |
class_person | AUX | — | Visual-inspection classification (0=not inspected or unknown, 1=star, 2=narrow emission-line galaxy, 3=QSO, 4=galaxy) | ✘ | ✔ |
comments_person | AUX | — | Visual-inspection comments | ✘ | ✔ |
cx | AUX | — | x of Normal unit vector in J2000 | ✘ | ✔ |
cy | AUX | — | y of Normal unit vector in J2000 | ✘ | ✔ |
cz | AUX | — | z of Normal unit vector in J2000 | ✘ | ✔ |
deredsn2 | AUX | — | Dereddened overall signal-to-noise-squared measure for plate (only for BOSS spectrograph plates) | ✘ | ✔ |
designid | AUX | — | Design identification number for plate | ✘ | ✔ |
dof | AUX | — | Number of degrees of freedom in best fit | ✘ | ✔ |
eboss_target0 | AUX | — | SEQUELS, TDSS and SPIDERS target selection flags | ✘ | ✔ |
eboss_target1 | AUX | — | eBOSS, TDSS and SPIDERS target selection flags for main eBOSS survey | ✘ | ✔ |
eboss_target2 | AUX | — | eBOSS, TDSS and SPIDERS target selection flags for main eBOSS survey | ✘ | ✔ |
eboss_target_id | AUX | — | EBOSS unique target identifier for every spectroscopic target | ✘ | ✔ |
Name | Storage | Units | Description | Default | All |
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model | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Pipeline best model fit used for classification and redshift | ✘ | ✔ |
sky | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Subtracted sky flux | ✘ | ✔ |
flux | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Coadded calibrated flux | ✔ | ✔ |
wave_sigma | SPECTRA | pixel | Line-spread function width (sigma of approximating Gaussian) in units of number of pixel | ✘ | ✔ |
ivar | SPECTRA | 1e+34 cm4 s2 AA2 erg-2 | Inverse variance of flux | ✘ | ✔ |
wavelength | SPECTRA | AA | Wavelength in units of Angstroms | ✔ | ✔ |
mask | SPECTRA | — | and_mask | ✘ | ✔ |
Name | Storage | Units | Description | Default | All |
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elodie_bv | AUX | mag | (B-V) color index for ELODIE star | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_dof | AUX | — | Degrees of freedom in fit to best ELODIE star | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_feh | AUX | — | Metallicity [Fe/H] of ELODIE star | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_filename | AUX | — | File name for best-fit ELODIE star | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_logg | AUX | — | log10(gravity) of ELODIE star | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_object | AUX | — | Star name for ELODIE star | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_rchi2 | AUX | — | Reduced chi-squared of fit to best ELODIE star | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_sptype | AUX | — | ELODIE star spectral type | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_teff | AUX | Kelvin | Effective temperature of ELODIE star | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_z | AUX | — | Redshift fit to ELODIE star | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_z_err | AUX | — | Error in redshift fit to ELODIE star | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_z_modelerr | AUX | — | Standard deviation in Elodie redshift among the 12 best-fit stars | ✘ | ✔ |
fiberid | AUX | — | Fiber number | ✘ | ✔ |
firstrelease | AUX | — | Name of first release this PLATE, MJD, FIBERID, RUN2D was associated with | ✘ | ✔ |
fluxobjid | AUX | — | Unique database ID of flux-based photometric match based on RUN, RERUN, CAMCOl, FIELD, ID (same as SkyServer version) | ✘ | ✔ |
fracnsighi | AUX | — | Fraction of pixels high by more than N sigma relative to best-fit (for 1,2,..,10 sigma) | ✘ | ✔ |
fracnsiglo | AUX | — | Fraction of pixels low by more than N sigma relative to best-fit (for 1,2,..,10 sigma) | ✘ | ✔ |
fracnsigma | AUX | — | Fraction of pixels deviant by more than N sigma relative to best-fit (for 1,2,..,10 sigma) | ✘ | ✔ |
lambda_eff | AUX | AA | Effective wavelength drilling position was optimized for | ✘ | ✔ |
legacy_target1 | AUX | — | Primary (science) target flags for SDSS-I and SDSS-II Legacy survey | ✘ | ✔ |
legacy_target2 | AUX | — | Secondary (calibration) target flags for SDSS-I and SDSS-II Legacy survey | ✘ | ✔ |
marvels_target1 | AUX | — | Primary (science) target flags for MARVELS targets | ✘ | ✔ |
marvels_target2 | AUX | — | Secondary (calibration) target flags for MARVELS targets | ✘ | ✔ |
mjd | AUX | days | Modified Julian Day of observation | ✘ | ✔ |
npoly | AUX | — | Number of polynomial terms in fit | ✘ | ✔ |
Name | Storage | Units | Description | Default | All |
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flux | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Coadded calibrated flux | ✔ | ✔ |
ivar | SPECTRA | 1e+34 cm4 s2 AA2 erg-2 | Inverse variance of flux | ✘ | ✔ |
mask | SPECTRA | — | and_mask | ✘ | ✔ |
model | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Pipeline best model fit used for classification and redshift | ✘ | ✔ |
sky | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Subtracted sky flux | ✘ | ✔ |
wavelength | SPECTRA | AA | Wavelength in units of Angstroms | ✔ | ✔ |
wave_sigma | SPECTRA | pixel | Line-spread function width (sigma of approximating Gaussian) in units of number of pixel | ✘ | ✔ |
Name | Storage | Units | Description | Default | All |
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sv2_mws_target | AUX | — | MWS (bright time program) target selection bitmask for SV2 | ✘ | ✔ |
sv2_scnd_target | AUX | — | Secondary target selection bitmask for SV2 | ✘ | ✔ |
sv3_bgs_target | AUX | — | BGS (bright time program) target selection bitmask for SV3 | ✘ | ✔ |
sv3_desi_target | AUX | — | DESI (dark time program) target selection bitmask for SV3 | ✘ | ✔ |
sv3_mws_target | AUX | — | MWS (bright time program) target selection bitmask for SV3 | ✘ | ✔ |
sv3_scnd_target | AUX | — | Secondary target selection bitmask for SV3 | ✘ | ✔ |
sv_nspec | AUX | — | Number of coadded spectra for this TARGETID in SV (SV1+2+3) | ✘ | ✔ |
sv_primary | AUX | — | Boolean flag (True/False) for the primary coadded spectrum in SV (SV1+2+3) | ✘ | ✔ |
tsnr2_bgs | AUX | — | BGS template (S/N)^2 summed over B,R,Z | ✘ | ✔ |
tsnr2_elg | AUX | — | ELG template (S/N)^2 summed over B,R,Z | ✘ | ✔ |
tsnr2_gpbbackup | AUX | — | GPBBACKUP template (S/N)^2 summed over BRZ | ✘ | ✔ |
tsnr2_gpbbright | AUX | — | GPBBRIGHT template (S/N)^2 summed over B,R,Z | ✘ | ✔ |
tsnr2_gpbdark | AUX | — | GPBDARK template (S/N)^2 summed over BRZ | ✘ | ✔ |
tsnr2_lrg | AUX | — | LRG template (S/N)^2 summed over B,R,Z | ✘ | ✔ |
tsnr2_lya | AUX | — | LYA template (S/N)^2 summed over B,R,Z | ✘ | ✔ |
tsnr2_qso | AUX | — | QSO template (S/N)^2 summed over B,R,Z | ✘ | ✔ |
zcat_nspec | AUX | — | Number of coadded spectra for this TARGETID in this zcatalog | ✘ | ✔ |
Name | Storage | Units | Description | Default | All |
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flux | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Coadded calibrated flux | ✔ | ✔ |
ivar | SPECTRA | 1e+34 cm4 s2 AA2 erg-2 | Inverse variance of flux | ✘ | ✔ |
mask | SPECTRA | — | Mask value | ✘ | ✔ |
model | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Pipeline best model fit | ✘ | ✔ |
wavelength | SPECTRA | AA | Wavelength in units of Angstroms | ✔ | ✔ |
wave_sigma | SPECTRA | AA | Line-spread function width (sigma of approximating Gaussian) in units of Angstroms | ✘ | ✔ |
Name | Storage | Units | Description | Default | All |
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ref_epoch | AUX | year | Reference epoch for Gaia/Tycho astrometry. Typically 2015.5 for Gaia | ✘ | ✔ |
plate_ra | AUX | deg | Right Ascension to be used by PlateMaker | ✘ | ✔ |
rms_delta_x | AUX | mm | RMS (over exposures) of the fiber difference between measured and requested CS5 X location on focal plane | ✘ | ✔ |
rms_delta_y | AUX | mm | RMS (over exposures) of the fiber difference between measured and requested CS5 Y location on focal plane | ✘ | ✔ |
sv1_scnd_target | AUX | — | Secondary target selection bitmask for SV1 | ✘ | ✔ |
sv2_scnd_target | AUX | — | Secondary target selection bitmask for SV2 | ✘ | ✔ |
sv3_scnd_target | AUX | — | Secondary target selection bitmask for SV3 | ✘ | ✔ |
subtype | AUX | — | Spectral subtype | ✘ | ✔ |
std_fiber_dec | AUX | arcsec | Standard deviation (over exposures) of DEC of actual fiber position | ✘ | ✔ |
std_fiber_ra | AUX | arcsec | Standard deviation (over exposures) of RA of actual fiber position | ✘ | ✔ |
survey | AUX | — | Survey name | ✘ | ✔ |
fa_target | AUX | — | Targeting bit internally used by fiberassign (linked with FA_TYPE) | ✘ | ✔ |
priority_init | AUX | — | Target initial priority from target selection bitmasks and OBSCONDITIONS | ✘ | ✔ |
cmx_target | AUX | — | Target selection bitmask for commissioning | ✘ | ✔ |
scnd_target | AUX | — | Target selection bitmask for secondary programs | ✘ | ✔ |
spgrpval | AUX | — | Value corresponding to the grouping type indicated in the spgrp column. This is the same as the healpix column | ✘ | ✔ |
Name | Storage | Units | Description | Default | All |
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flux | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Coadded calibrated flux | ✔ | ✔ |
ivar | SPECTRA | 1e+34 cm4 s2 AA2 erg-2 | Inverse variance of flux | ✘ | ✔ |
mask | SPECTRA | — | Mask value | ✘ | ✔ |
model | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Pipeline best model fit | ✘ | ✔ |
wavelength | SPECTRA | AA | Wavelength in units of Angstroms | ✔ | ✔ |
wave_sigma | SPECTRA | AA | Line-spread function width (sigma of approximating Gaussian) in units of Angstroms | ✘ | ✔ |
Name | Storage | Units | Description | Default | All |
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ancillary_target1 | AUX | — | BOSS ancillary science target selection information at plate design | ✘ | ✔ |
ancillary_target2 | AUX | — | BOSS ancillary target selection information at plate design | ✘ | ✔ |
anyandmask | AUX | — | For each bit, records whether any pixel in the spectrum has that bit set in its ANDMASK | ✘ | ✔ |
anyormask | AUX | — | For each bit, records whether any pixel in the spectrum has that bit set in its ORMASK | ✘ | ✔ |
bluefiber | AUX | — | Set to 1 if this hole was designated a blue fiber, 0 if designated a red fiber (high redshift LRGs are preferentially in red fibers) | ✘ | ✔ |
boss_specobj_id | AUX | — | Identification number internal to BOSS for SPECBOSS=1 objects | ✘ | ✔ |
boss_target1 | AUX | — | Primary (science) target flags for BOSS targets | ✘ | ✔ |
boss_target2 | AUX | — | Always set to zero (placeholder for BOSS target flags never used) | ✘ | ✔ |
calibflux | AUX | nanomaggy | ugriz fluxes used for calibrations | ✘ | ✔ |
calibflux_ivar | AUX | nanomaggy-2 | Inverse variances of ugriz fluxes used for calibrations | ✘ | ✔ |
chi68p | AUX | — | 68-th percentile value of abs(chi) of the best-fit synthetic spectrum to the actual spectrum (around 1.0 for a good fit) | ✘ | ✔ |
chunk | AUX | — | Name of tiling chunk that this spectrum was tiled in (boss1, boss2, etc), important for tracking large-scale structure samples | ✘ | ✔ |
class_noqso | AUX | — | Spectroscopic classification for Z_NOQSO redshift | ✘ | ✔ |
class_person | AUX | — | Visual-inspection classification (0=not inspected or unknown, 1=star, 2=narrow emission-line galaxy, 3=QSO, 4=galaxy) | ✘ | ✔ |
comments_person | AUX | — | Visual-inspection comments | ✘ | ✔ |
cx | AUX | — | x of Normal unit vector in J2000 | ✘ | ✔ |
cy | AUX | — | y of Normal unit vector in J2000 | ✘ | ✔ |
cz | AUX | — | z of Normal unit vector in J2000 | ✘ | ✔ |
deredsn2 | AUX | — | Dereddened overall signal-to-noise-squared measure for plate (only for BOSS spectrograph plates) | ✘ | ✔ |
designid | AUX | — | Design identification number for plate | ✘ | ✔ |
dof | AUX | — | Number of degrees of freedom in best fit | ✘ | ✔ |
eboss_target1 | AUX | — | eBOSS, TDSS and SPIDERS target selection flags for main eBOSS survey | ✘ | ✔ |
eboss_target2 | AUX | — | eBOSS, TDSS and SPIDERS target selection flags for main eBOSS survey | ✘ | ✔ |
eboss_target_id | AUX | — | EBOSS unique target identifier for every spectroscopic target | ✘ | ✔ |
elodie_bv | AUX | mag | (B-V) color index for ELODIE star | ✘ | ✔ |
Name | Storage | Units | Description | Default | All |
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flux | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Coadded calibrated flux | ✔ | ✔ |
ivar | SPECTRA | 1e+34 cm4 s2 AA2 erg-2 | Inverse variance of flux | ✘ | ✔ |
mask | SPECTRA | — | and_mask | ✘ | ✔ |
model | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Pipeline best model fit used for classification and redshift | ✘ | ✔ |
sky | SPECTRA | 1e-17 erg cm-2 s-1 AA-1 | Subtracted sky flux | ✘ | ✔ |
wavelength | SPECTRA | AA | Wavelength in units of Angstroms | ✔ | ✔ |
wave_sigma | SPECTRA | pixel | Line-spread function width (sigma of approximating Gaussian) in units of number of pixel | ✘ | ✔ |