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