The advent of all-sky facilities, such as the Neil Gehrels Swift observatory, the All Sky Automated Search for Supernovae (ASASSN), eROSITA and Gaia has led to a new appreciation of the importance of transient sources in solving outstanding astrophysical questions. Identification and catalogue cross-matching of transients has been eased over the last two decades by the Virtual Observatory but we still lack a client capable of providing a seamless, self-consistent, analysis of all observations made of a particular object by current and historical facilities. HILIGT is a web-based interface which polls individual servers written for XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL and other missions, to find the fluxes, or upper limits, from all observations made of a given target. These measurements are displayed as a table or a time series plot, which may be downloaded in a variety of formats. HILIGT currently works with data from X-ray and Gamma-ray observatories.
@article{arxiv.2111.14238,
title = {HILIGT, Upper Limit Servers I -- Overview},
author = {Richard Saxton and Ole König and Miguel Descalzo and Guillaume Belanger and Peter Kretschmar and Carlos Gabriel and Phil Evans and Aitor Ibarra and Elena Colomo and Maria Henar Sarmiento and Jesus Salgado and Alfonso Agrafojo and Erik Kuulkers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.14238},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Computing. This is paper one of a two paper series describing the HILIGT upper limit server