ESASky Release Notes

ESASKY 5.1

RELEASED 1 June 2023

SCIENCE READY DATA:

  • 'Up-to-the-minute' Gravitational Wave Alerts from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run 4.

Catalogues:

TECHNOLOGY:

  • API updates for the Euclid archive.
  • Automatic 'listening' to GCN for the latest GW alerts.
  • Astrometric catalogues bug fix.
  • Nested Datalinks bug fix.

ESASKY 5.0.2

RELEASED 28 MARCH 2023

TECHNOLOGY:

  • API HiPS updates.

ESASKY 5.0.1

RELEASED 17 MARCH 2023

TECHNOLOGY:

  • API updates for the Euclid archive.
  • Bug fixes.

ESASKY 5.0

RELEASED 2 MARCH 2023

SCIENCE READY DATA:

  • Access to the VizieR Catalogue Service from the Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center (CDS).
  • Access to all Table Access Protocols (TAPs) in the Virtual Observatory TAP Registry, including to:
    • Vizier (as mentioned above)
    • NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) 
    • ESA Archives: Gaia, XMM-Newton, JWST, HST, Herschel, ISO, INTEGRAL, PSA
    • ESASky TAP and ESASky Legacy TAP (including data from ESA Legacy missions such as Hipparcos, Cos-B, CoRoT, and EU funded projects using ESA data). 
    • German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory Data Centre
    • The Javalambre-Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS)
    • and many more, plus the previously included Data Centres in ESASky from ESO, CADC, MAST, HEASARC and ASTRON. 

TECHNOLOGY:

  • ADQL access to TAPs in the VO TAP Registry.
  • Improved internal data handling - removing hard coded information in favour of information from the source data (like UCD’s, units, column order, default visible columns, etc).

ESASKY 4.6

RELEASED 1 DECEMBER 2022

SCIENCE READY DATA:

Catalogues:

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

ESASKY 4.5.4

RELEASED 10 November 2022

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Upload target list bug fix.

ESASKY 4.5.3

RELEASED 31 October 2022

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Bottom right icon added for quick access to the EVA Virtual Assistant.

ESASKY 4.5.2

RELEASED 24 October 2022

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Bug fixes for the ESA/Webb Outreach Images feature.

ESASKY 4.5.1

RELEASED 13 October 2022

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

  • CHIPASS 1.4 GHz: Radio continuum map of the atomic hydrogen line, of the sky south of declination +25deg. Reprocessing of archival data from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS) and the HI Zone of Avoidance (HIZOA) survey.
  • CGPS-VGPS CONT: Combination of the 1420 MHz continuum of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) with the VLA Galactic Plane Survey (VGPS).
  • GASS NH: 21-cm emission from Galactic neutral hydrogen for the entire sky south of delta=+1 deg, using the Parkes radio telescope.

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Updated Target Lists URLs.
  • API updates.
  • Mobile phone bug fixes.
  • Updated URL in download file to Acknowledge ESASky. 

ESASKY 4.5

RELEASED 30 SEPTEMBER 2022

SCIENCE READY DATA:

Catalogues:

ESASKY 4.4

RELEASED 15 SEPTEMBER 2022

SCIENCE READY DATA:

  • ESA/Webb Outreach Images.

TECHNOLOGY:

  • HiPS Greyscale (Reverse) colour palette added.

ESASKY 4.3

RELEASED 13 JULY 2022

SCIENCE READY DATA:

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Webb Early Release Targets added to the targets list

ESASKY 4.2.1

RELEASED 23 JUNE 2022

TECHNOLOGY:

ESASKY 4.2

RELEASED 13 JUNE 2022

SCIENCE READY DATA:

ESASKY 4.1.3

RELEASED 16 MAY 2022

SCIENCE READY DATA:

  • HST HAP (Hubble Advanced Products) Multi Visit Mosaics included in ESASky.

TECHNOLOGY:

  • EVA Virtual Assistant improvements and inclusion in hamburger menu.

ESASKY 4.1.2

RELEASED 12 APRIL 2022

TECHNOLOGY:

ESASKY 4.1.1

RELEASED 30 MARCH 2022

TECHNOLOGY:

  • New ESASky API queries.
  • Bug fixes.

ESASKY 4.1

RELEASED 22 March 2022

SCIENCE READY DATA:

Catalogues:

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

  • LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) DR2 high resolution HiPS

TECHNOLOGY:

ESASKY 4.0.1

RELEASED 9 NOVEMBER 2021

TECHNOLOGY:

  • HST outreach image included in share URL.
  • Screenshot improvements.
  • ESASky API capabilities expanded.
  • Bug fixes.

ESASKY 4.0

RELEASED 20 OCTOBER 2021

SCIENCE READY DATA:

  • ESA/Hubble Outreach Images.
  • LIGO/Virgo Gravitational Waves.
  • CHEOPS optimal light-curves and data reduction report.

Catalogues:

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

  • PanSTARRS DR1 color (i, r, g).

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Possibility to overlay high-resolution zoomable images anywhere on the sky.
  • Possibility to show and select elliptical footprints.

ESASKY 3.9

RELEASED 13 SEPTEMBER 2021

SCIENCE READY DATA:

  • ASTRON and most requested HEASARC tables added to external TAPs.

Catalogues:

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

  • TGSS ADR progressive survey and Apertif Data release 1 survey HiPS by ASTRON.

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Selection Tool - allowing selection of multiple sources within a delimited area.
  • Adding HiPS from url and local computer and browsing HiPS registry for globally available HiPS. 
  • PyEsasky: Updates to handle ESASky 3.9, adding function to browse HiPS and adding support for newer ipython kernels.

ESASKY 3.8

RELEASED 26 April 2021

SCIENCE READY DATA:

  • Automatic updating of HST and XMM-Newton observations (images and spectra, updated daily).

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Linking to ESA Earth Online, the Planetary Science Archive and the Solar Orbiter Archive when a relevant object is searched for.
  • Javascript API improvements: select/ deselect footprints and sources; updating content in custom treemaps; updates in response on events. See here for a full list of the API functionalities.
  • Bug fixes

ESASKY 3.7.1

RELEASED 19 February 2021

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Publications order of authors fix
  • Count update fix

ESASKY 3.7

RELEASED 21 December 2020

SCIENCE READY DATA:

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Bug fixes

ESASKY 3.6

RELEASED 3RD December 2020

Science ready data:

TECHNOLOGY:

  • More catalogue and data columns now available and can be add to or removed from the data panel.
  • All available columns automatically downloaded when the table is downloaded.
  • Database optimisation and performance improvement.
  • Improved Javascript API.

ESASKY 3.5.1

RELEASED 8TH October 2020

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Bug fixes.

ESASKY 3.5

RELEASED 24TH September 2020

Science ready data:

TECHNOLOGY:

  • New interactive observation and catalogue coverage maps (using Q3c), with the ability to filter on large amounts of data (up to 10M rows).
  • Data panel user experience improved with the integration of the third party library Tabulator, including moveable columns, handling of large tables, close all tables button.
  • Switch between equatorial coordinate formats (sexagesimal <-> decimal) in header and data panel.
  • Database optimisation and performance improvement.
  • Improved Javascript API.

ESASKY 3.4.3

RELEASED 11TH June 2020

Science ready data:

  • Chandra imaging and spectra metadata update

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Internationalisation: Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Matomo integration

ESASKY 3.4.2

RELEASED 1ST April 2020

Science ready data:

  • Updated XMM OM metadata and MOC
  • Updated HST metadata and MOC

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Improved the dynamic count (SQL functions in the db)
  • Improved/fixed cache issue in the client browser (please let us know if you experience cache issue with ESASky not loading on your browser)

ESASKY 3.4.1

RELEASED 14TH March 2020

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Internal patch release - configuration updates.

ESASKY 3.4

RELEASED 12TH March 2020

Science ready data:

Catalogues:

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Treemap slider
  • ExtTAP filtered to show only public data (non-proprietary data).
  • Ability to switch between sexagesimal and decimal degrees

ESASKY 3.3.2

RELEASED 29TH January 2020

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Updated JWST footprints in planning tool to latest SIAF.
  • Bug fixes.

ESASKY 3.3.1

RELEASED 12TH December 2019

TECHNOLOGY:

  • External TAP MOC bug fix.

ESASKY 3.3

RELEASED 11TH December 2019

DATA:

TECHNOLOGY:

  • HTTPS
  • Bug fixes

ESASKY 3.2.1

RELEASED 29TH November 2019

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Improvements on the external TAP access.
  • ESO, CADC and MAST MOC updates.
  • Update to IMCCE service accessing SSODNet.
  • Bug fixing

ESASKY 3.2

RELEASED 15TH November 2019

Science ready data (IMAGES):

Catalogues:

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

MID-IR:

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Access to external TAPs (from ESO, CADC and MAST)
  • HiPS slider
  • Coordinates Grid
  • Publications upgrade
  • Search by author and bibcode
  • Download subsets of tables, either through selection or filter
  • Significant performance upgrade for resolving large target lists
  • Resizable data panel columns
  • Both horizontal & vertical FoV
  • Bug fixes

ESASKY 3.1.3

RELEASED 16TH JULY 2019

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

Soft X-RAY:

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Improved Javascript API
  • Improved coordinate parser
  • Science mode switch setting now persists through sessions
  • Bug fixes

ESASKY 3.1.2

RELEASED 28TH JUNE 2019

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Expanded ESASky Javascript API (used by external applications such as pyESASky).
  • Improved mobile and desktop responsiveness.

  • Bug fixes, including improved support for the screenshot feature. 

ESASKY 3.1.1

RELEASED 10TH MAy 2019

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Automatically starting ESASky in Spanish, if user's preferred browser is set in Spanish.
  • Improved move behaviour and more movable elements.
  • Horizontally scrollable tables in data panel.
  • Banner conveying information messages to all active users.
  • Support for pyESASky 1.0
  • Minor improvements and bug fixes. 

ESASKY 3.1

RELEASED 7TH MARCH 2019

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Improved SSO metadata and model.
  • Upgrade to TAP version 7.
  • Treemap separation
  • Update of example target lists and random target list (from Dice).
  • Pagination of the Data Panel
  • Colour blind colours
  • Internationalisation: Spanish
  • Startup target description:
    • Properly integrated in the same box as the target list and random target.
    • Added a status while looking up position of startup object. “Loading a random object” / “Cargando un objeto aleatorio”. 
  • Buttons on the movable panels are now properly clickable on touch
  • Small bugfix to correctly adjust dialog boxes width when browser window shrinks or expands.
  • Removed the parentheses around the s for texts never used for a singular object. 
  • A target description no longer disappears when using galactic coordinates.
  • The Status Panel now has two types of messages: important and regular. 
  • Improvements in the object search:
    • It is no longer possible to initiate a search while search box is empty or whitespace.
    • Character ‘ is now ignored instead of causing SIMBAD query problems. Proper handling will be included in 3.2 or later.

ESASKY 3.0

RELEASED 6TH NOVEMBER 2018

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Explorer mode/Science mode with different functionalities.
  • Links to the World Wide Telescope (WWT).
  • Improved SSO functionality, with refined cross-matches and new objects.
  • New look-and-feel, including improved Header and resizable data panel
  • Significant improvements to touch devices
  • Improved cross browsers support
  • Improved reliability

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

Mid-Infrared:

ESASky 2.3

released 27th September 2018

DATA:

  • Updated Chandra data.
  • Updated XMM-Newton EPIC data.
  • Updated HST data.

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Improved column filtering capabilities, including filtering by ranges of numbers and dates.

Catalogues:

ESASky 2.2

released 25th April 2018

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Visualisation of proper motion arrows when applicable on catalogues.
  • Ability to change footprint colours and line size (images and spectra) and catalogue colours, source shapes and sizes. 
  • Additional information in data panel tabs (via question mark icon).
  • Improved publications usability workflow.
  • Improvement of the HSC experience.
  • [Experimental feature] HiPS JPEG cut out service.
  • [Experimental feature] Open graph share metadata generation (to share ESASky images in social media).
  • Bug fixing

Catalogues:

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

Radio:

ESASky 2.1

released 15th February 2018

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Publications tool
  • Improved usability for smartphones and tablets
  • Explore random targets feature
  • Example source lists added to Target List feature
  • Improved performance
  • Bug fixing

ESASky 2.0

released 20th October 2017

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Search for Solar System Objects (currently planets, satellites and comets) imaging data from HST, Herschel and XMM-Newton.
  • New and improved user interface with support to mobile devices.
  • Improved representation of available data: numbers and tree-map.
  • Improved usability and user experience: Interactive footprints with the data panel; filtering of results and automatic interaction with footprints; centre on observation/source; improved search; 'share' button ..
  • Solar System Object orbits drawn on the sky (for the start date to end date of the searched mission).
  • Faster access to users outside Europe.
  • More robust application with better support for different browsers and browser settings.
  • Bug fixing

Science ready data (Spectra):

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

Far-Infrared:

  • Updated Herschel PACS and SPIRE HiPS [European Space Agency (Herschel Science Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)].

Radio:

  • Updated Haslam 408 MHz HiPS [European Space Agency (ESAC Science Data Centre)].

Others (physical models):

  • Planck Polarised Dust smoothed [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)].
  • Planck Polarised Synchrotron smoothed [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)].

Catalogues:

ESASky 1.5

released 10th March 2017

Science ready data (imaging):

Catalogues:

ESASky 1.4

released 23rd February 2017

TECHNOLOGY:

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

Soft X-RAY:  

  • Updated XMM-Newton EPIC color [European Space Agency (XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre & ESAC Science Data Centre)]. It now includes all public observations up to 9th August 2016.

Catalogues:

ESASky 1.3

released 20th December 2016

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Improved name resolving

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

All the following HiPS have been updated with the live feature:

Soft X-Ray:

  • XMM-Newton EPIC color [European Space Agency (XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre & ESAC Science Data Centre)]

Ultraviolet:

  • XMM-Newton UV color [European Space Agency (XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre & ESAC Science Data Centre)]

Optical:

  • HST ACS [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • HST WFPC2 [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • HST WFC3 [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • HST FOC [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • HST WFPC [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]

Near-Infrared:

  • HST NICMOS [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]

Catalogues:

ESASky 1.2

released 11th October 2016

TECHNOLOGY:

Catalogues:

ESASky 1.1

released 15th JULY 2016

TECHNOLOGY:

DATA CONTENTS:

ALL-SKY HIPS MOSAICS:

HARD X-RAY:  

ESASky 1.0

Released 9th May 2016

Technology:

  • Organisation of the sky menu by wavelength
  • Interoperability with VO tools
  • SAMP integration
  • Exporting data in CSV and VOTable format
  • Refactoring of the skies menu
  • Refactoring of the multitarget list file upload
  • Refactoring of the simple search
  • Improvment of the Data panel
  • Tooltip with description for Skies and Sources
  • Servers high availability and load balancing
  • Improvement of the data download manager
  • Improvement of the AladinLite GWT widget
  • Video tutorials

All-sky HiPS mosaics:

Gamma-Ray:

  • Fermi color [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]

Hard X-Ray:  

  • INTEGRAL-IBIS [European Space Agency (INTEGRAL Science Operations Centre & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • SWIFT-BAT [Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA)]

Soft X-Ray:

  • XMM-Newton EPIC color [European Space Agency (XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • XMM-Newton PN color [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]
  • SUZAKU [Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA)]
  • EXOSAT-LE [European Space Agency (ESAC Science Data Centre)]

Ultraviolet:

  • GALEX GR6 AIS color [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]
  • XMM-Newton UV color [European Space Agency (XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre & ESAC Science Data Centre)]

Optical:

  • DSS2 color [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]
  • DSS2 red [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]
  • HST ACS [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • HST WFPC2 [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • HST WFC3 [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • HST FOC [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • HST WFPC [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • XMM UBV color [European Space Agency (XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • SDSS9 color [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]
  • SuperCOSMOS Ha [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]
  • VTSS Ha [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]
  • Mellinger color    [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]
  • Finkbeiner Ha [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]

Near-Infrared:

  • 2MASS color (J+H+K) [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]
  • HST NICMOS [European Space Agency (European HST Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]

Mid-Infrared:

  • AllWISE color [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]
  • ISOCAM [European Space Agency ( & ESAC Science Data Centre)]

Far-Infrared:

  • Herschel PACS RGB (70+160) [European Space Agency (Herschel Science Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • All Herschel color [European Space Agency (Herschel Science Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Herschel PACS 70 micron [European Space Agency (Herschel Science Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Herschel PACS 100 micron [European Space Agency (Herschel Science Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Herschel PACS 160 micron [European Space Agency (Herschel Science Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • AKARI FIS color [European Space Agency (ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • AKARI N60 [European Space Agency (ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • AKARI WideS [European Space Agency (ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • AKARI WideL [European Space Agency (ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • AKARI N160 [European Space Agency (ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • IRIS color [Centre de Donees Astronomiques d?Strasbourg]

Submilimetre:

  • Herschel SPIRE RGB (250+350+500) [European Space Agency (Herschel Science Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Herschel SPIRE 250 micron [European Space Agency (Herschel Science Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Herschel SPIRE 350 micron [European Space Agency (Herschel Science Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Herschel SPIRE 500 micron [European Space Agency (Herschel Science Archive & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck HFI 857 GHz [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck HFI 545 GHz [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck HFI 353 GHz [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]

Radio:

  • Planck HFI 217 GHz[European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck HFI 143 GHz [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck HFI 100 GHz [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck LFI 070 GHz [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck LFI 044 GHz [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck LFI 030 GHz [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck HFI 353 GHz Pol [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck HFI 217 GHz Pol [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck HFI 143 GHz Pol [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck LFI 100 GHz Pol [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck LFI 070 GHz Pol [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck LFI 044 GHz Pol [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • Planck LFI 030 GHz Pol [European Space Agency (Planck Science Office & ESAC Science Data Centre)]
  • CO composite survey [LAMBDA]
  • CHIPASS 1.4GHz [IRAP/CADE]
  • NVSS intensity maps [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]
  • CGPS-VGPS CONT [IRAP/CADE]
  • GASS NH [IRAP/CADE]    
  • SUMSS 843 MHz [IRAP/CADE]
  • Haslam 408 MHz [LAMBDA]    
  • WENSS 325 MHz [Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]

Science ready data (imaging):

  • XMM-Newton, SUZAKU, XMM-OM(UV), XMM-OM(Optical), HST, Herschel, ISO

Catalogues:

  • INTEGRAL, 3XMM EPIC, XMM Slew, XMM OM, Hipparcos-2, Tycho-2, HSC, PGCC2, PCCS2E, PCCS2-HFI, PCCS2-LFI, PSZ

ESASky Beta 1.0

Released 25th October 2015

Technology:

  • Scientific validation of footprints and ESA all-sky HiPS.
  • Download management
  • Multi-target summary table
  • Documentation
  • Integration with Simbad search engine
  • Helpdesk Support
  • Hardware scaling requirements

All-sky HiPS mosaics:

  • INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton, HST, ISO, AKARI, Herschel, Planck.

Science ready data (imaging):

  • XMM-Newton, XMM OM(UV and UVB), HST(core), Herschel, ISOCAM.

Catalogues:

  • INTEGRAL (v.39), 3XMM EPIC, XMM Slew, XMM OM, Tycho-2, Hubble, Planck.