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MAST Interfaces
MAST provides a variety of interfaces to access its hosted data collections. Tables in this document provide a few-letter code to indicate which interface(s) may be used to access data from a given collection. The following table lists the codes and their meaning.
Interface Code | Description |
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CJ | CasJobs (requires a separate account) |
C.M | Catalogs.MAST |
D | Direct download (usually from a link on a MAST webpage) |
E.M | Exo.MAST |
G | HTTP Get Request |
P | Portal user interface |
PX | Portal Cross-match |
VOT | Virtual Observatory Tables interface |
WF | Custom MAST web form |
Data Catalogs
MAST hosts catalogs from a wide variety of digital surveys and source compendia to facilitate research. These catalogs are available in one or more MAST interfaces. See the table of Interface Codes above.
The catalogs may also be accessed via a Virtual Observatory table access protocol. The following table lists the catalogs by their acronyms.
Catalog | Version | Interface | Description | References |
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2MASS | Standard and 6X | CJ, PX | Two-micron All-Sky Survey: IR photometric catalog | Cutri, et al. 2003, VizieR On-line Data Catalog |
CFHTLS | Deep, Wide; T0007 Release | PX | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey: optical/near-IR photometric catalogs | Hudelot, et al. 2012, VizieR On-line Data Catalog |
CMC14 | PX | Calsberg Meridian Catalog: astrometric positions | ||
CTL | 8.0.1 | CJ, PX | TESS Candidate Target List | Stassun, et al. 2018, AJ, 156, A102 |
DENIS | DR3 | PX | Deep Near-Infrared Survey (DENIS) point-source photometric catalog | DENIS Consortium 2005, VisieR On-line Data Catalog |
Exoplanets_TESS | CJ | TESS sources with threshold-crossing events | ||
FIRST | WF | Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm: radio source catalog. | Becker, et al. 1995, ApJ, 450, 559 | |
GAIA | DR1, DR2, EDR3 | CJ, PX | GAIA Astrometric catalog of stellar positions and proper motions. | GAIA Collaboration 2018, A&A, 616, A1 |
GALEX: AIS+MIS | GR5 | CJ | All-sky imaging survey and Medium-depth imaging survey: photometric UV catalog | Bianchi, et al. 2011, VizieR On-line Data Catalog |
GALEX: All | GR 6+7 | CJ, PX | Source catalog all surveys: photometric UV catalog | Bianchi, et al. 2014, VizieR On-line Data Catalog |
GLIIMPSE | PX | Source Catalog | IPAC 2008, VisieR On-line Data Catalog | |
GSC | 2.2, 2.3, ASC | WF, PX | Guide-Star Catalog of stellar positions and magnitudes | Lasker, et al. 2008, AJ, 136, 735 |
HLSP_47TUC | CJ | Photometric source catalog of 47 Tuc | ||
HLSP_ATLAS_REFCAT2 | CJ | ATLAS All-Sky Reference Catalog of stars | Tonry et al. 2018, ApJ, 867, 105 | |
HLSP_ATLAS_VAR | CJ | Source catalog of variable stars from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System | Heinze, et al. 2018, AJ, 156, A241 | |
HLSP_GSWLC | CJ | GALEX-SDSS-WISE Legacy Catalog of galaxy properties | Salim et al. 2016, ApJS, 227, 2 | |
HLSP_KG_RADII | CJ | Revised Kepler Stellar and Exoplanet Properties from GAIA-DR2 | Berger, et al. 2018, ApJ, 866, 99 | |
HSLP_PS1_PSC | CJ | Probablistic classifications of unresolved point-sources in Pan-STARRS1 | Tachibana & Miller 2018, PASP, 130, 994 | |
HLSP_TESS_HERMES | CJ | Catalog of stellar parameters | Sharma, et al. 2018, MNRAS, 473, 2004 | |
HLSP_UVOTSSC | CJ | Swift UVOT serendipitous source catalog | Page, et al. 2015, Proceedings of Science, 223, 37 | |
HSC | 3: MagAper2 3: MagAuto | CJ, C.M, P, PX, VOT | Hubble Source Catalog, includes Hubble Catalog of Variables; source positions and multi-band magnitudes | |
IRSF MCPS | PX | IRSF Magellanic Clouds Point-Source Catalog | Daisuke, et al. 2007, PASJ, 59, 615 | |
KIC | WF, PX | Kepler Input Catalog | Brown, et al. 2011, AJ, 142, A112 | |
KOI | DR25 | CJ | Kepler Object of Interest catalog of stars with exo-planets | Thompson, et al. 2018, ApJS, 235, A38 |
LMCPS | PX | Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey: the LMC: multi-band optical catalog of stars | Zaritsky, et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1606 | |
NOMAD | PX | Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset astrometric catalog | Zacharias, et al. 2005, VizieR On-line Data Catalog | |
OGLE II BULGE | PX | OGLE Photometric Catalog of the Galactic Bulge | Udalski, et al. 2002, AcA, 52, 217 | |
Pan-STARRS | DR1, DR2 | CJ, C.M | Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System photometric catalog | Chambers, K, et al. 2019, https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05560 |
PHAT | v2 | CJ | Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury photometric survey | Johnson, et al. AJ, 752, A95 |
PPMX | PX | Catalog of Positions and Proper Motions of stars | Röser, et al. 2008, A&A, 488, 401 | |
PPMXL | PX | PPMX on the ICRS | Roeser, et al. 2010, AJ, 139, 2440 | |
SAGE | PX | Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution | Meixner, et al. 2006, AJ, 132, 2268 | |
SDSS | DR7, 8, 9, 14 | CJ, PX | Photometric Source Catalog: multi-band optical and near-IR photometry | Abazajlan, et al. 2009, ApJS, 182, 543 |
SPM | 4.0 | PX | Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion Catalog | Girard, et al. 2011, AJ, 142, 15 |
TGAS | DR1 | PX | Tycho-GAIA | |
TIC | 8.1 | CJ, PX | TESS Input Catalog | Stassun, et al. 2018, AJ, 156, A102 |
Tycho-2 | PX | Tycho-2 Astrometric Catalog | Hog, et al. 2000, A&A, 355, L27 | |
UCAC | 2, 3, 4 | PX | US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog | Zacharias, et al. 2013, AJ, 145, 44 |
UKIDSS:DXS | DR8, DR9 | PX | UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey: Deep Extragalactic Survey | |
UKIDSS:GCS | DR8, DR9 | PX | UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey: Galactic Clusters Survey | |
UKIDSS:GPS | DR6 | PX | UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey: Galactic Plane Survey | |
UKIDSS:LAS | DR7, DR8, DR9 | PX | UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey: Large Area Survey | |
USNO | A2.0, B1.0 | PX | USNO Astrometric Catalog | Monet, et al. 2003, AJ, 125, 984 |
WISE | PX | WISE All-Sky Photometric Survey | Cutri, et al. 2012, VizieR On-line Catalog |