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Details - PESSTO Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects

Title PESSTO Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects
Version 3
Data Provider/P.I. Stephen Smartt
Data Collection PESSTO
Data Release DR4
Submission Date 2021-03-23
Publication Date 2021-03-23
Description The PESSTO Transient Catalogue (V3) contains all 2144 sources for which a meaningful spectral classification has been obtained by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects, up to 30 April 2019. It contains and expands the previous version (V2) that contained 1035 sources classified up to 30 April 2016.
Please refer to the full data release description for further information.
Telescope ESO-NTT
Instrument EFOSC
Technique of Observation SPECTRUM
Start of Observations 56,029.015 (2012-04-12T14:21:52)
End of Observations 58,561.411 (2019-03-19T22:52:07)
Filter Set/bands
Sky Solid Angle
Number of Records 2144
Number of Columns 29
Reference 2015A&A...579A..40S
Acknowledgment Policy Please include the following acknowledgment in any published material that makes use of this data product: Based on data obtained from the ESO Science Archive Facility with DOI: https://doi.org/10.18727/archive/46
Position Name Description Data Type Data Size UCD Physical Unit
1 TRANSIENT_ID The master name of the transient STRING 50 meta.id;meta.main
2 TRANSIENT_RAJ2000 RA of the transient in decimal degrees FLOAT 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
3 TRANSIENT_DECJ2000 DEC of the transient in decimal degrees FLOAT 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
4 TRANSIENT_CLASSIFICATION Classification of the transient reported in PESSTO ATels STRING 20 meta.code.class;src.class
5 TRANSIENT_CLASSIFICATION_PECULIAR_FLAG Boolean flag, set to "1" if transient classified as peculiar INT16 1 meta.code
6 TRANSIENT_CLASSIFICATION_SOURCE The source of the classification STRING 20 meta.id
7 TRANSIENT_CLASSIFICATION_ATEL The number of the ATel reporting the classification INT16 1 meta.id
8 TRANSIENT_CLASSIFICATION_MJD MJD at point of classification INT32 1 time.epoch d
9 TRANSIENT_CLASSIFICATION_REDSHIFT The redshift of the transient FLOAT 1 src.redshift
10 TRANSIENT_CLASSIFICATION_PHASE The general phase of the transient wrt maximum light STRING 20 time.phase
11 TRANSIENT_CLASSIFICATION_PHASE_DAYS_LOWER_LIMIT Lower limit of transient phase wrt maximum light INT16 1 time.phase d
12 TRANSIENT_CLASSIFICATION_PHASE_DAYS_UPPER_LIMIT Upper limit of transient phase wrt maximum light INT16 1 time.phase d
13 TRANSIENT_DISCOVERY_MJD MJD at point of transient discovery INT32 1 time.phase d
14 TRANSIENT_DISCOVERY_MAG Magnitude of the transient at point of discovery FLOAT 1 phot.mag magnitude of the transient at point of discovery
15 TRANSIENT_DISCOVERY_MAG_FILTER Filter used for discovery magnitude STRING 10 meta.id;instr.filter
16 FOLLOWUP_TARGET PESSTO follow-up campaign object (Boolean) INT16 1 meta.code
17 HOST_ID The name of an associated host galaxy STRING 50 meta.id
18 HOST_RAJ2000 RA of host galaxy in decimal degrees FLOAT 1 pos.eq.ra deg
19 HOST_DECJ2000 DEC of host galaxy in decimal degrees FLOAT 1 pos.eq.dec deg
20 HOST_OFFSET_N The N-S transient-host separation FLOAT 1 pos.angDistance deg
21 HOST_OFFSET_E The E-W transient-host separation FLOAT 1 pos.angDistance deg
22 HOST_REDSHIFT_SPEC_SOURCE Source of the galaxy spectroscopic redshift STRING 10 meta.id
23 HOST_REDSHIFT_SPEC Host galaxy spectroscopic redshift FLOAT 1 src.redshift
24 HOST_REDSHIFT_PHOT_SOURCE Source of the galaxy photometric redshift STRING 10 meta.id
25 HOST_REDSHIFT_PHOT Host galaxy photometric redshift FLOAT 1 src.redshift
26 HOST_REDSHIFT_PHOT_ERR Host galaxy photometric redshift error FLOAT 1 stat.error;src.redshift
27 TRANSIENT_IAU_ID The offical IAU identification of the object STRING 50 meta.id
28 TRANSIENT_ALTERNATIVE_IDS The object identifications as assigned by other surveys STRING 200 meta.id
29 TRANSIENT_CLASSIFICATION_SPECTRUM FITS file name of the original spectrum STRING 68 meta.ref