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User Manual - No. XXVI
La Palma Archive User Manual

E.J. Zuiderwijk
Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge
&
Kapteyn Laboratory, Groningen
and
Ernst Raimond and Ger van Diepen
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy

May 1994

• INTRODUCTION
  • About the La Palma Observations Archive
  • About this manual
• Astronomical Overview
  • Catalogue contents
  • Instruments
    • Imaging instruments
    • Spectrographs
    • Special Instruments
  • Detectors
    • The IPCS detectors.
    • The CCD detectors
  • Astronomical codes
    • Observation-type code
    • Object-type code
  • Catalogue Maintenance
• The Captive Account and Mailserver
  • General aspects of archive queries
  • Access
  • The Captive Account ARCQUERY
  • Interactive use of ARCQUERY software
    • Starting ARCQUERY
    • Terminating ARCQUERY
    • Interrupts
  • Aspects of a simple-minded ARCQUERY session
    • Overview
    • SELECTions
    • Input/Output tables
    • Value ranges and logical constructions
    • Table handling
    • Requests
    • Exit procedure
  • User Identification (ADDRESS_INFO)
    • Interactive Mode
    • Command mode
    • Defining a new Institute name
    • Altering existing user information (temporarilly)
  • Search Strategies
    • Finding a particular object or objects
    • Finding a particular observing night
    • Finding a particular Data Tape
    • Usage of wildcards
    • Finding Calibrations
  • Usage and definition of symbols
    • The Initialization File
  • Listing
    • LIST
    • SHOW
  • Using the Mailserver
    • Introduction
    • Access
    • Format
    • Pitfalls
    • Comments
    • Returned Output
• The ARCQUERY command language
  • ARCQUERY commands and qualifiers
    • Overview
    • Command Qualifiers
    • Keywords and key-qualifiers
  • Obtain help information: HELPQUERY (H)
  • Set defaults: DEFAULT (DEF)
    • Default output specification
    • Default list formats
    • Default table names
    • Defaults for position search
  • Selection of catalogue records
    • General procedure
    • Select observations: SELECT (SE)
    • View and edit a selection: EDIT (ED)
    • Select calibration observations: CALSELECT (CA)
  • Table handling
    • Combining tables with UNION (U)
    • Combining tables with INTERSECTION (I)
    • Combining tables with DIFFERENCE (DI)
    • Rename an existing table: RENAME (REN)
    • Delete an existing table: DELETE (DEL)
  • Listing and showing information
    • Produce a formatted list of selections: LIST (L)
    • Display list files: TYPE, PRINT and SPOOL (T, P, SP)
    • Show general information: SHOW (SH)
  • Requesting data or action from archive operators
    • Make requests: REQUEST (REQ)
    • Enter/modify address information: ADDRESS_INFO (A)
    • Modification of Catalogue entries: MODIFY_REQUEST (MO)
  • Miscellaneous commands
    • Sort selections: SORT (SO)
    • Produce simple statistics: COUNT (CO)
    • Send mail to archive manager/operator: MAIL_COMMENT (MA)
  • Terminate an ARCQUERY session: EXIT (EX)
  • Syntax rules
    • Unambiguous abbreviations, use of upper and lower case
    • Logical relations
    • Units, values, value-sets and value-ranges
    • Use of wildcards and blanks
    • Specification of dates
    • Specification of time
    • Specification of position
  • User-defined symbols
  • Table names