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Accessing multimessenger TAP server

A new new IVOA-compliant TAP server, currently exposing data from the INTEGRAl mission, is now directly accessible from Galaxy.

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Following the recent announcement of a generic tool for connecting to astronomical data archives, a dedicated Table Access Protocol (TAP) for multimessenger is now available. By using the Astronomical Archives tool in Galaxy, you can now connect to this service by using the features made available with this tool. This new TAP server can be reached to the URL “http://www.astro.unige.ch/mmoda/dispatch-data/tap/”.

The newly developed service currently exposes the European Space Agency’s (ESA) INTEGRAL mission data. However, it will be expanded in the future to support a more diverse set of data, coming from different missions.

Example of an ADQL query, that performs a cone search around a point with provided coordinates

An example of a cone search query of INTEGRAL mission data through IVOA TAP protocol with a Galaxy tool

Depending on the type of products, a dedicated type of visualization is possible. So, far the following type of products are available: Mosaics, Lightcurves and Spectrums.

Mosaic

Example of visualization of a mosaic using the Aladin tool

Lightcurve

Example of visualization of a lightcurve using the dedicated FITS graph viewer

Spectrum

Example of visualization of a spectrum using the dedicated FITS graph viewer