The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: H I Properties
Koribalski, B. S.; Staveley-Smith, L.; Kilborn, V. A.; et al. 2004AJ....128...16K

Data loading steps

1. Associated literature:
   refcode 2004AJ....128...16K
   data table downloaded table 2 from CDS
   
   
2. Read associated literature to learn about the nature of the dataset:
   • tabulated/common information:
     galaxy name listed in Table 2
     exptime N/A
     pa N/A
     pos_origin published-value
     pos_units sexagesimal
     pos_system equatorial
     pos_equinox J2000
     flux_unit Jy
     bandpass Radio
     line_name HI
     obs_mode
     
     
   • telescopes used and instrument setup:
     telescope Parkes
     instrument 21 cm Multibeam Receiver
     detector correlator
     disperser
     spect_res
     seeing N/A
     airmass N/A
     aperture 15.5 arcmin
     slit_length 18 km/s
     
     
   • obs_region obtained from "Flags" in Table 2
     ex_reg_leng N/A
     
     
   • calibration:
     flux calibration YES
     absolute calibration YES
     sky subtraction N/A
     
     
3. ASCII and FITS (incomplete) files were provided by Dr. Koribalski, sotred in FROM_AUTHOR/
4. Using the perl script generate_NED_ASCII.pl, we obtained the info.txt file:

   	:~> perl ~/research/NEDsp/Codes/generate_NED_ASCII.pl -ext=log -col=2,3 -units=HI_km_s,Jy ./FROM_AUTHOR/ASCII/*.log
   	:~> /bin/rm FROM_AUTHOR/ASCII/*.txt
   

5. Object names (names.txt) are extracted from table 2 (table2.dat) of the published paper, then cross-matched with the info file info.txt using the script FINDdiff.pl:

       :~> perl ~/bin/FINDdiff.pl -keepall -m -sep="\t" names.txt info.txt > LOG_FINDdiff_1
   

   The results are in names.txt_info.txt.common and any unmatched lines are reported in LOG_FINDdiff_1:

        names.txt               info.txt
        HIPASSJ0532-67          HIPASSJ0531-67
        HIPASSJ0943-00a         HIPASSJ0944-00a
        HIPASSJ1037-38          HIPASSJ1038-38
        HIPASSJ1116-35          HIPASSJ1116-34
   

6. Object positions (pos.txt) are extracted from table 2 (table2.dat) then converted to decimal degrees using the script t2d.pl:

   	:~> perl ~/bin/t2d.pl pos.txt > pos.txt.deg
   

7. Since the HIPASS catalog is already in NED, the NED format names of galaxies should be easily confrimed with the perl script seekNEDnames.pl:

       :~> perl ~/bin/seekNEDnames.pl names.txt
   

   Only one name failed to correspond to a NED name: HIPASS J1616-55. With near position search, this should corrspond to HIPASS J1618-55 in NED.
   
   
8. Next, we rename the ascii files with the associated NED names, command list in rename.
   
   
9. We then use the scripts: generate_NED_ASCII.pl and generate_VOtable.pl to "re-"generate the NED-ASCII and VOtable files:

   	:~> perl ~/research/NEDsp/Codes/generate_NED_ASCII.pl -col=2,3 -units=HI_km_s,Jy  DATA/*.txt
   	:~> perl ~/research/NEDsp/Codes/generate_VOtable.pl DATA/*_NED.txt
   

10. Finally, after all the metadata are collected, the content of the EXCEL file: metadata_table.xls is copied into a text file (named metadata_table.fin), used as the input to the loader script generate_spectraDB_loader.pl:

    	perl generate_spectraDB_loader.pl metadata_table.fin
    

11. This script also generate the input file for the script which makes the previews, invoking the -line switch:

    	perl generate_spectraDB_preview.pl -line