veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - v3.0.0

VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

This is release version v3.0.0 adding publications from mid 2023 to end of 2024.

The VTSCat data collection contains:

• high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
• tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
• sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format

A detailed description of VTSCat can be found in A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6. Please check also the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results, accessible through this link. VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat
• HEASARC: HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• ZENODO: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6988967
• HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html
• Research note A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6; see also arXiv:2301.04498
  • ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

Published by GernotMaier over 1 year ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - v2.0.3

VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

This is release version v2.0.3 adding publications from end of 2022 to mid of 2023.

The VTSCat data collection contains:

• high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
• tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
• sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format

A detailed description of VTSCat can be found in A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6. Please check also the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results, accessible through this link. VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat
• HEASARC: HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
• ZENODO: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4723219
• HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html
• Research note A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6; see also arXiv:2301.04498
  • ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

Changes in relation with v2.0.1:

• fix in CITATION.cff

Published by GernotMaier over 2 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - v2.0.2

VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

This is release version v2.0.2 adding publications from end of 2022 to mid of 2023.

The VTSCat data collection contains:

• high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
• tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
• sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format

A detailed description of VTSCat can be found in A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6. Please check also the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results, accessible through this link. VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat
• HEASARC: HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
• ZENODO: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4723219
• HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html
• Research note A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6; see also arXiv:2301.04498
  • ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

Changes in relation with v2.0.1:

• fix Zenodo main text

Published by GernotMaier over 2 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - v2.0.1

VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

This is release version v2.0.1 adding publications from end of 2022 to mid of 2023.

The VTSCat data collection contains:

• high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
• tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
• sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format

A detailed description of VTSCat can be found in A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6. Please check also the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results, accessible through this link. VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat
• HEASARC: HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
• ZENODO: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4723219
• HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html
• Research note A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6; see also arXiv:2301.04498
  • ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

Published by GernotMaier over 2 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - v2.0

VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

This is release version v2.0 adding publications from end of 2022 to mid of 2023.

The VTSCat data collection contains:

• high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
• tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
• sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format

A detailed description of VTSCat can be found in A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6. Please check also the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results, accessible through this link. VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat
• HEASARC: HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
• ZENODO: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4723219
• HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html
• Research note A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6; see also arXiv:2301.04498
  • ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

Published by GernotMaier over 2 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - v1.0

VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

The VTSCat data collection contains:

• high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
• tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
• sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format

A detailed description of VTSCat can be found in A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6. Please check also the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results, accessible through this link. VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat
• HEASARC: HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
• ZENODO: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4723219
• HEASARC: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/verimaster.html
• Research note A. Acharyya et al 2023 Res. Notes AAS 7 6; see also arXiv:2301.04498
  • ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

Published by GernotMaier over 3 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.8.6

VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

The VTSCat data collection contains:

• high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
• tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
• sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format

This is a pre-release for testing and early publications.

A forthcoming research note will provide more details on the catalog. Please check the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results (to be published). VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
• ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

Published by GernotMaier almost 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.8.4

VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

The VTSCat data collection contains:

• high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
• tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
• sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format

This is a pre-release for testing and early publications.

A forthcoming research note will provide more details on the catalog. Please check the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results (to be published). VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
• ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

Published by GernotMaier almost 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.8.3

This is a pre-release for testing and early publications.

A forthcoming research note will provide more details on the catalog. Please check the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results (to be published). VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
• ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

Published by GernotMaier almost 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.8.2

VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

The VTSCat data collection contains:

• high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
• tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
• sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format

This is a pre-release for testing and early publications.

A forthcoming research note will provide more details on the catalog. Please check the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results (to be published). VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
• ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

New with this release:

• zenodo description file

Published by GernotMaier almost 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.8.1

VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

The VTSCat data collection contains:

• high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
• tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
• sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format

This is a pre-release for testing and early publications.

A forthcoming research note will provide more details on the catalog. Please check the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results (to be published). VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
• ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

Published by GernotMaier almost 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.8.0

VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

The VTSCat data collection contains:

• high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
• tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
• sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format

This is a pre-release for testing and early publications.

A forthcoming research note will provide more details on the catalog. Please check the README file and all documentation linked to the README.

VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results (to be published). VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.

If you are a previous VERITAS author and would like to be associated with this repository, please send an email to G. Maier.

Access:

• GitHub: https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat

References:

• VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
• VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
• ICRC 2021 proceedings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424

New in version v0.8.0:

• 2021/2022 publications
• consistency fixes

Published by GernotMaier almost 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.7.0

This is a release of VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

Main changes compared to version 0.6.0 are:

• completion of adding publications from 2021

This release is available from Zenodo under https://zenodo.org/record/6163391

Bibtex citation text:

@dataset{benbow_w_2022_6163391, author = {Benbow, W. and Brill, A. and Capasso, M. and Christiansen, J.L. and Errando, M. and Falcone, A. and Farrell, K.A. and Feng, Q. and Foote, G.M. and Fortson, L. and Furniss, A. and Gent, A. and Giuri, C. and Hassan, T. and Hervet, O. and Holder, J. and Humensky, T.B. and Jin, W. and Kaaret, P. and Kieda, D. and Lang, M.J. and Lundy, M. and Maier, G. and McGrath, C.E. and Mukherjee, R. and Nievas-Rosillo, M. and O'Brien, S. and Ong, R.A. and Patel, S. and Pohl, M. and Pueschel, E. and Quinn, J. and Ragan, K. and Ribeiro, D. and Richards, G.T. and Roache, E. and Ryan, J.L. and Williams, D.A.}, title = {{VTSCat: The VERITAS Catalog of Gamma-Ray Observations}}, month = feb, year = 2022, publisher = {Zenodo}, version = {pre-release-v0.7.0}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6163391}, url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6163391} }

Published by GernotMaier over 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.6.0

This is a release of VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

Main changes compared to version 0.6.0 are:

• addition of data from 2021 and 2022 publications

This release is available from Zenodo under https://zenodo.org/record/5940017

Bibtex citation text:

@dataset{benbow_w_2022_5940017, author = {Benbow, W. and Brill, A. and Capasso, M. and Christiansen, J.L. and Errando, M. and Falcone, A. and Farrell, K.A. and Feng, Q. and Foote, G.M. and Fortson, L. and Furniss, A. and Gent, A. and Giuri, C. and Hassan, T. and Hervet, O. and Holder, J. and Humensky, T.B. and Jin, W. and Kaaret, P. and Kieda, D. and Lang, M.J. and Lundy, M. and Maier, G. and McGrath, C.E. and Mukherjee, R. and Nievas-Rosillo, M. and O'Brien, S. and Ong, R.A. and Patel, S. and Pohl, M. and Pueschel, E. and Quinn, J. and Ragan, K. and Ribeiro, D. and Richards, G.T. and Roache, E. and Ryan, J.L. and Williams, D.A.}, title = {{VTSCat: The VERITAS Catalog of Gamma-Ray Observations}}, month = feb, year = 2022, publisher = {Zenodo}, version = {pre-release-v0.6.0}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5940017}, url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5940017} }

Published by GernotMaier over 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.5.0

This is a release of VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

Main changes compared to version 0.5.0 are:

• addition of data from 2021 publications
• syntax corrections to yaml and ecsv files

Published by GernotMaier over 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.4.0

This is a correction release for the pre-relase of VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

Main changes compared to v0.3c are:

• addition of 2021 papers
• format definition fixes
• flux unit correction in 2018/2018ApJ...867L..19A/VER-000174-lc-2.ecsv
• flux constant correction in 2021/2012ApJ...755..118A/VER-000020-lc.ecsv
• add missing confidence levels to several files
• add 2021 papers (still ongoing)
• (further minor corrections to bibtex and readme files)

Published by GernotMaier over 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.3c

This is a correction release for the third pre-relase of VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

Main changes compared to v0.3c are:

• add observation time range of 2014/2014ApJ...780..168A into data fields

Published by GernotMaier over 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.3b

This is a correction release for the third pre-relase of VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

Main changes compared to v0.3a are: - correction of integer data types to correct astropy type (int64) - correction of list of publications (reference_ids) to include all publications for a given source

Zenodo link: https://zenodo.org/record/5413365

Published by GernotMaier over 4 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.3

This is the third pre-relase of VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

Main changes compared to v0.2 are: - addition of 3 2021 papers - corrections of live_time units for some observations from m to min - correction of target names including too many spaces - addition of a table listing sources and targets to the README

Published by GernotMaier almost 5 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.2

This is the second pre-relase of VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

Main changes compared to v0.1 is the consistent usage of veritas_names.

Published by GernotMaier almost 5 years ago

veritas-vtscat - VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue - pre-release v0.1

This is a pre-relase of VTSCat - the VERITAS data catalogue of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.

Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4723219

Published by GernotMaier about 5 years ago