APIS - Auroral Planetary Imaging and Spectroscopy

Most recent articles

• No SAMP hub detected

  4 July 2013, by Florence HENRY

  You have to launch a SAMP hub. Topcat is a good solution.
  See the help section for more details.

• Acknowledgements

  3 July 2013, by Laurent LAMY

  Acknowledgements
  The path from the original idea to observe a target to the value-added data delivered by APIS is long and complex, and involves a significant work from many persons and services such as : the principal investigators for requesting and programming the observations, the conceivers of observing instruments and the engineering teams of space agencies for operating the telescopes and collecting the data. The latter include the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci) and the (…)

• Date use policy

  24 February 2012, by Laurent LAMY

  Data use policy
  The APIS service opened to the community in July 2013, at the occasion of the Magnetospheres of Outer Planets conference hold in Athens.
  It provides a free access to various data levels through a search interface to users who have logged in. We kindly ask visitors to register, as this helps us to estimate the interest of APIS for the community, to address the variety of scientific purposes, and to justify past and future developments of the database, the search interface (…)

• Resources

  24 February 2012, by Laurent LAMY

  Tutorials : A brief usecase of APIS is included in the following movie, developed for the EPSC meeting of London hold in Sept. 2013. A more exhaustive tutorial (in french, course on VO-tools for PhD students, 2015) is available on demand.
  Plotting tools : The search interface proposes to interactively visualize/work with images and spectra through the Aladin and Specview softwares respectively. Aladin (developed at CDS, Strasbourg) : the latest version can be downloaded here. Cassis (…)

• Search interface

  20 February 2012, by Florence HENRY, Laurent LAMY

  If you do not have a login yet, please go to the registering page.
  If you are already registered, please log in to access the data.

• In brief

  31 January 2012, by Florence HENRY, Laurent LAMY

  In brief
  Planetary aurorae are powerful emissions radiated from the auroral regions of magnetized planets by accelerated charged particles, in a wide range of wavelengths, from radio to X-rays. The UV range in particular is adapted to measure collisionally excited transitions of H and H2, which are the prominent species in the upper atmosphere of the giant planets, produced by precipitating auroral particles. It additionally benefits a good angular resolution. Auroral UV observations (…)