The VizieR Search Page is aimed
- to set up the desired results:
- which constraints are to be applied to columns
of the tables
- which columns will be displayed
- the order in which the records (rows) will be displayed.
Once all your wishes are typed in, just click on
any Submit Query button – several
buttons are provided just to avoid unnecessary scrollings.
- to make some operations like:
Note:
Existing columns are generally
not all presented – but an
Adapt Form section
proposes different choices for this Selection Page.
The Page can be seen as 3 parts:
- the target search
- the list of tables
- the constraints
1 The target search
Note:
In the current section, we discuss only about the default target
Simple target. The second possibility
List Of target
concerns list (more details on
list of constraints).
Enter in the Target box a position on the sky
in the equinox or reference frame selected. This position may be:
- either a position made of RA (right ascension)
and Dec (declination) in sexagesimal notation
(0 to 24h in RA, -90° to +90° in Dec).
Don't forget that RA is made of at least 2 parts
(hours and minutes separated by a blank or a colon), and that
Dec must start by a + or - sign
- or a position made of 2 numbers representing decimal degrees.
To be interpreted this way,
the numbers must have a decimal point.
Therefore,
12 +20 is interpreted as
12h+20° = 180°+20°,
but
12.0 +20 is interpreted as 12°+20°.
- the IAU-coordinates can be used, which consists in a
1-letter prefix indicating the coordinate sytem
(J or B for J2000/ICRS or B1950/FK4 equatorial,
or G for Galactic),
followed by the position without any blank or space
(in sexagesimal for J or B, in decimal degrees for G);
examples are J122906.70+020308.6,
B122633.29+021943.2, or
G289.951+64.630, all three being a representation
of the position of 3C 273;
- or the name of an object, which is converted to a position
using Sesame.
The Search Window can be
2 The list of tables
This section displays the description of the tables you selected.
The annotation service
You can post an annotation to the catalog by clicking on the link
Post annotation in the catalog description
(or put an annotation to the table in Page4 or for a row in
Page5).
If you do it (and after validation by the CDS team) your comment will
appear in the end of all pages containing results related to the catalog.
The crossmatch
If at least 2 tables have coordinates, the cross-match,
can be activated:
a checkbox
(by default not checked) Xmatch proposes this operation.
The result consists in a single table joined by position
(also called a fuzzy join).
When the checkbox is checked, you can modify:
- the Radius value which
specifies the maximum acceptable distance between two rows of the tables
to cross-match
- the choice of the Master table.
The default choice is only matched rows, i.e. only rows having
a close-by objects in both tables will be displayed. Notice that the
result is commutative – the order of the selected tables does not matter.
Otherwise all rows of the master table will be displayed,
completed by the contents of the other table if matching objetc(s) are
found therein.
Note:
The number of rows is truncated.
We suggest you to add constraints like positions to avoid the truncation.
Depending of the precision of the catalogs, you will have to modify the
Radius.
You will do that, if:
- the result has no corespondance with position - Indeed, it is possible
that the catalogs choosen have not the same precision.
- the result displays a warning:
Abort: the radius used for this crossmatch is too small according to the precision of the positions in the catalogs
In that case the current Radius is too small for the referent
catalog (the smaller of the list).
3 The constraints
Note:
In the current section, we discuss only about the default target
Simple constraint. The second possibility
List Of Constraints concerns the
list of constraintsusage.
This list presents every column of each table;
each of the column can be
- checked: the column will be included in the result
- sorted: the column is chosen as the sorting argument
(in use only if at least a constraint on a column is set)
- you can join tables (if several tables are selected).
More details on join documentation.
- qualified by a constraint to generate a selection
(see Constraint Specification ).
Note:
By default all columns are shown - you can modify the edition at the end of the page.
last update: 13 Feb 2024