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Telescope Archive for Pool and AstronomerS TAPAS

TAPAS Web Access Internal use only! TAPAS is not yet online. (CK, 20.7.09)

TAPAS will provide a complete, homogeneous, and searchable database of the header information of all astronomical observations conducted at the IRAM 30m telescope. TAPAS has been a joint IAA-CSIC/IRAM effort over the years 2005-2008, partially funded by the Spanish ministry via grant AYA2005-07516-C02. TAPAS will contain more than 200 header variables for each observational scan, encompassing

• information on the observing setup (source, frequency, observing mode, etc.),
• information on the project (PI, Title, etc.),
• the status of the system at the time of the observations (telescope, receiver, backend, weather, etc.),
• and also the results of calibrations, of pointing and focus scans.

TAPAS Data Policy

by Carsten Kramer & Pierre Cox (19-Nov-2008, mod. by RN, CK on 12.2.09)

Header Data

A subset of the astronomical header data will be made accessible with a delay of 12 months from the end of the scheduling semester in which the project was observed. TAPAS will provide access via web interfaces and search tools, and a Virtual Observatory facility for query and retrieval of header data. For each scan, the subset will encompass the project number, source name and position, date of observations, LST time, integration time, observing mode, and sky frequency. IRAM staff will have immediate and unrestricted access to all header data.

Astronomical Data

TAPAS does not contain any astronomical heterodyne or bolometer data, but it provides the possibility to link the header data of individual scans to FITS files containing the uncalibrated astronomical data. Access to uncalibrated astronomical data is reserved to the exclusive use of the principal investigator and the observing team of a successful program. Only for data observed in the framework of a Large Program, general access is granted with a delay of 18 months from the end of the scheduling semester in which the project was observed. Astronomers interested in reducing and analysing data from a program other than a Large Program, are invited to collaborate with the observing team or request a written authorization from the principal investigators for the release of project specific data.