Spectral cubesivo://astron.nl/apertif_dr2/q/apertif_dr2_spectral_cubesASTRONApertif Team2026-04-10T15:23:43Michael Sipior

Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4, 7991PD Dwingeloo, the Netherlands

vo@astron.nlHI lineradio Apertif is a phased-array feed system for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), providing forty instantaneous beams over 300 MHz of bandwidth. A description of the second data release is to be included here. This service queries the spectral line cubes from the second data release of Apertif. Four line cubes are produced over a set of different frequency ranges as follows. Cube 0:  1292.5–1337.1 MHz, Cube 1: 1333.1–1377.7 MHz, Cube 2: 1373.8–1418.4 MHz, Cube 3: 1414.5–1429.3 MHz. Cube 3 is produced at full spectral resolution of 12.2 kHz while other cubes are produced with a 3-channel averaging at 36.6 kHz resolution. The cubes have a spatial extent of 1.1 deg × 1.1 deg (661 × 661 pixels, with 6''/pixel). The median noise for all line cubes, with a spectral resolution of 36.6 kHz, is 1.6 mJy/beam, corresponding to a 3-σ H I column density sensitivity of 1.8 × 10^20 atoms cm^−2 over 20 km s^−1 (for a median angular resolution of 24″ × 15″). The corresponding dirty beam cubes are also released to allow offline cleaning of source emission.2022A&A...667A..38Ahttps://vo.astron.nl/apertif_dr2/q/apertif_dr2_spectral_cubes/infoSurveyResearchserved-byThe VO @ ASTRON TAP serviceLicensed under CC-BYhttps://vo.astron.nl/apertif_dr2/q/apertif_dr2_spectral_cubes/scs.xml?GETapplication/x-votable+xmlRARight Ascension (ICRS decimal)degpos.eq.rarealDECDeclination (ICRS decimal)degpos.eq.decrealSRSearch radiusdegrealtargetName of the fieldmeta.idcharbeam_numberBeam numbermeta.id;instr.beamintegerobsidObservation idmeta.idcharRESPONSEFORMATFile format requested for output.meta.code.mimecharMAXRECMaximum number of records returned. Pass 0 to retrieve service parameters.integerVERBExhaustiveness of column selection. VERB=1 only returns the most important columns, VERB=2 selects the columns deemed useful to the average user, VERB=3 returns a table with all available columns.integer180100000true342.133.90.001https://vo.astron.nl/apertif_dr2/q/apertif_dr2_spectral_cubes/availabilityhttps://vo.astron.nl/apertif_dr2/q/apertif_dr2_spectral_cubes/capabilitieshttps://vo.astron.nl/apertif_dr2/q/apertif_dr2_spectral_cubes/tableMetadatahttps://vo.astron.nl/tapWSRTApertifRadioapertif_dr2apertif_dr2.spectral_cubesaccrefAccess key for the dataAccess.ReferencecharindexednullableownerOwner of the datacharnullableembargoDate the data will become/became publicacharnullablemimeMIME type of the file servedmeta.code.mimeAccess.FormatcharnullableaccsizeSize of the data in bytesbyteVOX:Image_FileSizeAccess.SizelongnullablecenteralphaApproximate center of image, RAdegpos.eq.ra;meta.maindoublenullablecenterdeltaApproximate center of image, Decdegpos.eq.dec;meta.maindoublenullableimagetitleSynthetic name of the imageVOX:Image_TitlecharnullableinstidIdentifier of the originating instrumentINST_IDcharnullabledateobsEpoch at midpoint of observationdVOX:Image_MJDateObsdoublenullablenaxesNumber of axes in dataVOX:Image_NaxesintnullablepixelsizeNumber of pixels along each of the axespixVOX:Image_NaxisintnullablepixelscaleThe pixel scale on each image axisdeg/pixVOX:Image_ScalefloatnullablerefframeCoordinate system reference frameVOX:STC_CoordRefFramecharnullablewcs_equinoxEquinox of the given coordinatesyrVOX:STC_CoordEquinoxfloatnullablewcs_projectionFITS WCS projection typeVOX:WCS_CoordProjectioncharnullablewcs_refpixelWCS reference pixelpixVOX:WCS_CoordRefPixelfloatnullablewcs_refvaluesWorld coordinates at WCS reference pixeldegVOX:WCS_CoordRefValuedoublenullablewcs_cdmatrixFITS WCS CDij matrixdeg/pixVOX:WCS_CDMatrixfloatnullablebandpassidFreeform name of the bandpass usedVOX:BandPass_IDcharnullablebandpassunitUnit of bandpass specifications (always m).VOX:BandPass_UnitcharnullablebandpassrefvalCharacteristic quantity for the bandpass of the imagemVOX:BandPass_RefValuefloatnullablebandpasshiUpper limit of the bandpass (in BandPass_Unit units)mVOX:BandPass_HiLimitfloatnullablebandpassloLower limit of the bandpass (in BandPass_Unit units)mVOX:BandPass_LoLimitfloatnullablepixflagsFlags specifying the processing done (C-original; F-resampled; Z-fluxes valid; X-not resampled; V-for display onlyVOX:Image_PixFlagscharnullablecoverageField covered by the imagedegdoubleindexednullabletargetName of the fieldmeta.idcharnullableobsidUnique idmeta.idcharnullablerelated_productsLink related products for the observationmeta.ref.urlcharnullablevalidWhether or not the dataset has passed validationmeta.code.qualchartask_idID of the taskmeta.idcharnullablebeam_numberNumber of the beammeta.id;instr.beamintfreqminMinimum frequencyMHzem.freqfloatfreqmaxMaximum frequencyMHzem.freqfloatn_channelsNumber of channelsem.binintpub_didDataset identifier assigned by the publishermeta.id;meta.maincharindexednullablecube_keymeta.idcharnullablecube_qualQuality flag (G: Good, O: Okay, B: Bad)meta.code.qualcharsigmarms noise in the central channelmJy/beamstat.errorfloatnullablef_exFraction of the total number of pixels with an absolute value > 6.75 sigmastat.valuefloatnullablep_0pt8Ratio between the width of the noise histogram at a level of 0.8% of the maximum and rmsstat.valuefloatnullableivoaDefinition and support code for the ObsCore data model and table.ivoa.obscoreThis data collection is queriable in The VO @ ASTRON's obscore table.