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The Canadian Galactic Plane Survey Archive
The VLA Galactic Plane Survey Archive

CGPS DATA structure


With most of the CGPS data, if a science image is retrieved, one or many of the following datasets will be tag with the main dataset.
CGPS Data Types           Brief Desciption
PHN For IRAS data only, a file giving a measure of the relative noise across an image.
CFV For IRAS data only, a file showing the correction factor variance.
High values of this quantity can indicate poor noisy data, saturated regions, or unresolved sources.
FLAGS For CO data only, a flag file. Non-zero flag values indicate image pixels with caveats.
IMAGE A file containing the image data.
BEAMS A file containing a grid of selected beam maps illustrating the variation in beam shape across the image.
RESCB A file containing five planes of information illustrating the variation in beam profile across the image.
WGHT A file containing a weight map which gives a measure of the relative noise across an image.