Column

Type/units

Description

Comment

1

Field

String

Name of field E.g. Lockman

Required

2

Sub-field

String

Detailed name of field e.g. Lockman-NW

Required

3

Survey

String

Name of survey e.g. SWIRE

Required

4

Telescope

String

e.g. Spitzer

Required

5

Instrument

String

e.g. MIPS

Required

6

PropID

Integer

Proposal Number or unique ID for that Facilty

 

7

Area

Real/sq. degs.

e.g. 11.1

 

8

Shape

String

Shape of Region e.g. Rectangle/Circle/Ellipse/polygon

Required

9

RA_STR

String/sexigesimal

Hr min sec

Either 9/11 required

10

DEC_STR

String/sexigesimal

Deg min sec

Either 10/12 required

11

RA

Real/ degrees

 

 

12

DEC

Real/ degrees

 

 

13

DX

Real/Degrees

X-side of rectangle OR major axis of ellipse/circle

 

14

DY

Real/Degrees

Y-side of rectangle, OR Major axis of ellipse

 

15

ROT

Real/Degrees

Rotation angle of Y-axis, East of North for equatorial (Rectangle/Ellipse)

 

16

NVERT

Integer

Number of Vertices (0 for circle, n for polygon)

 

17

VERTRA

Real-Vector/Degrees

Feel free to add columns to define polygons

(not required for squares, circles, rectangles or ellipses)

18

VERTDEC

Real-Vector/Degrees

 

 

19

COORDSYS

String

Coordinate system e.g. FK5, ecliptic

 

20

Filter

String

Band identifier – Filter ref.e.g. Ò70micronÓ To be replaced by number referring to filter profile

 

21

Lambda

Real/micron

Effective wavelength of filter

 

22

zeropnt

Real/mag

Vega magnitude of 1Jy source in that filter

 

23

Filter_ID

Integer

Identification # of filter in filter list

 

24

Time

Real/seconds

Integration time/per sky pixel

 

25

Depth

Real

Units defined in next column

 

26

Units

String

Units of Depth

 

27

DepthType

String

Definition of depth e.g. 5 sigma / 90% completeness

 

28

DepthJy

Real/Jy

Depth converted to Jy

 

29

Status

String

e.g. proposed, completed, public

 

30

Start-Date

String/Date

(Start obs/ End obs)e.g. 17-Sep-2004, 17-Oct-2004

 

31

End-Date

String/Date

 

 

32

Pub-Date

String/Date

Date to be made public

 

33

NDEN

Real/ sq. deg.

Number densities e.g. 1050.

 

34

PI

String

name of Principal Investigator e.g. ÒLonsdale, C.J.Ó

 

35

Ref

String

Primary reference ideally as ADS code e.g. 2003PASP..115..897L

 

36

URL

String

e.g. Ò

http://swire.ipac.caltech.edu/swire/swire.html