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March 07, 2013, at 03:43 AM by DuncanG - created page
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Here are the columns of the MINBAR database, and a brief description of each.

This is copied initially from minbar.dbd

[@added  c*10    Date burst added [dd-mm-yyy]
instr  c*3    Instrument (XTE/WFC/JMX/...)
obsid  c*20    Observation ID
id      i*4    Reference ID for external (e.g. RXTE) catalog
time    r*8    Burst start time (t_25) [MJD]
baryshift      r*4    Add to time to get the arrival time at SS barycentre [s]
ra      r*4    "R.A. of origin, where known [decimal hours, J2000]"
dec    r*4    "Dec of origin, where known [decimal degrees, J2000]"
name    c*20    Likely source origin (name refers to separate source catalog)
altname c*255  Alternative names for source origin
mult    i*2    Number of instruments which have observed this event
angle  r*4    Angle from the pointing axis [arcmin]
vigcorr r*4    Vignetting correction factor (e.g. for off-axis bursts seen by RXTE)
pcount  r*4    Peak count rate [count/s]
pcounte r*4    1-sigma error on peak count rate
pflux  r*4    Peak burst flux [1e-9 erg/cm^2/s]
pfluxe  r*4    Error on peak burst flux [1e-9 erg/cm^2/s]
fluen  r*4    Burst fluence [1e-6 erg/cm^2]
fluene  r*4    Error on fluence [1e-6 erg/cm^2]
emin    r*4    Minimum of energy band for flux & fluence (0=bolometric) [keV]
emax    r*4    Maximum of energy band  (0 for bolometric) [keV]
bpflux  r*4    Maximum bolometric flux (from blackbody fit) [1e-9 erg/cm^2/s]
bpfluxe r*4    Error on bolometric flux
kT      r*4    Blackbody temperature at flux maximum [keV]
kTe    r*4    Error on blackbody temperature
rad    r*4    Blackbody normalisation at flux maximum [(km^2/d_10kpc)^2]
rade    r*4    Error on blackbody normalisation
bfluen  r*4    Bolometric fluence (i.e. integrated bol. flux) [1e-6 erg/cm^2]
bfluene r*4    Error on bolometric fluence
nH      r*4    Absorption column density for blackbody fit [10^22 cm^-2]
nHe    r*4    Error on absorption column density
rexp    i*2    "Radius-expansion flag (1=no, 2=yes, 3=marginal, -1=can't tell)"
flag    i*2    "Flag for analysis conditions, as for RXTE catalog"
rise    r*4    Burst rise time (=t_90-t_25) [s]
risee  r*4    Error on burst rise [s]
tau    r*4    Burst timescale (fluence/peak flux) [s]
taue    r*4    Error on burst timescale
edt    r*4    First decay constant for exponential fit to profile [s]
edte    r*4    Error on first decay constant
edt2    r*4    Second decay constant for second branch of exponential fit [s]
edt2e  r*4    Error on second decay constant
tdel    r*4    Separation [s]
trec    r*4    (Inferred) recurrence time [s]
perflx  r*4    Persistent flux at the time of the burst [1e-9 erg/cm^2/s]
perflxe r*4    Error on persistent flux [1e-9 erg/cm^2/s]
pemin  r*4    Minimum of energy band for persistent flux [keV]
pemax  r*4    Maximum of energy band for persistent flux [keV]
alpha  r*4    Ratio of integrated persistent flux to burst fluence
alphae  r*4    Error on alpha value
bc      r*4    Bolometric correction for persistent flux
bce    r*4    Error on bolometric correction
gamma  r*4    Normalised persistent flux; following vppl88
sc      r*4    Soft colour (defined at present only for RXTE bursts)
hc      r*4    Hard colour (ditto)
s_z    r*4    Position on the colour-colour diagram
ref    c*255  "References to published analyses of this burst (ref[,ref [...]])"
ref_ids c*255  "ID nos. for published analyses (id[,id[...]])"
notes  c*255  @]
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