Welcome to the HEASARC Bibliography
These publication lists and associated metadata have been used for internal reviews and reports, for setting up the links between the ADS and HEASARC, and other bibliometric needs. Ideally they will also enable the broader user community an even more efficient use of the archive itself. Like the papers in these lists, any bibliography contains a certain amount of human judgement and bias, so explaining how this particular example has been put together is important, not to mention giving much deserved credit to the many resources it has relied upon. So first and foremost we should mention that the HEASARC bibliography adheres to the premier list of bibliographic recommendations outlined in Best Practices for Creating an Observatory or Telescope Bibliography from the IAU Commission 5 Working Group on Libraries, as this help file will attempt to verify.
Selection Criteria
The ADS fulltext search capability is essential for the initial selection of papers to classify. Some missions need more than just a fulltext search on their name, and those cases are all detailed below. Papers that present specific science data by analyzing it themselves is the start of what we define to be a science paper for any mission. Papers that contain only an image or overlay may be classified as a science paper if the authors produced the image themselves and if it contributes to the science of the paper. Papers that use data to only determine target coordinates are not considered science papers. When a series of papers from a team of authors are published, all of the papers in that series are considered science papers that refer to and use the data that they analyzed and presented themselves at some point in that series. In that same manner, if any author of a science paper then presents that data again in another paper, the latter is considered a science paper as if it were in a series.
Operational missions: SRG - We search the ADS for SRG papers and have matched those that analyze any eROSITA EDR data to their HEASARC obsids. ART-XC data will eventually be included. The eROSITA/eRASS data is also currently not available in the HEASARC. NICER - We search the ADS for NICER bibcodes, then search the HEASARC for their ObsIDs, then create our publication lists with Xamin links to data. AstroSat - We search the ADS for AstroSat bibcodes, then create our publication lists. NuSTAR - We search the ADS for NuSTAR bibcodes, then search the HEASARC for their ObsIDs, then deliver to the ADS, cross-checking with NuSTAR Research Scientist Brian Grefenstette. Fermi - see the Fermi paragraph below: Swift - In 2015 we searched the ADS for all Swift papers and updated the entire Swift bibliography. This included deleting, reclassifying, and adding many hundreds of additional Swift papers between 2005 and the present, and creating hundreds of thousands of new bibcode-to-obsid links. INTEGRAL - In 2016 we searched the ADS for all INTEGRAL papers and updated the entire INTEGRAL bibliography. This included deleting, reclassifying, and adding many hundreds of additional INTEGRAL papers between 2003 and the present, and creating hundreds of thousands of new bibcode-to-science-window links. XMM and Chandra - We are currently searching the ADS for all Chandra and XMM papers since their launch dates and are up to year 2016 in our project of deleting, reclassifying, and adding many papers and bibcode-to-obsid links to our database. While the HEASARC does contain Chandra data, we don't create links between the ADS and HEASARC in order to avoid confusion with CXC's own links to the ADS.
Retired missions: Suzaku - In 2015 we searched the ADS for all Suzaku papers and updated the entire Suzaku bibliography. This included deleting, reclassifying, and adding many additional Swift papers between 2006 and the present, and creating hundreds of new bibcode-to-obsid links. HETE-2 - no obsids have been delievered to the ADS for the HEASARC, and the bibliography was only recently created. BeppoSAX - the HEASARC and bibliography don't include the WFC data in any useful form, so no WFC papers are included either. RXTE - In 2017 we searched the ADS for all RXTE papers and updated the entire RXTE bibliography. This included deleting, reclassifying, and adding many hundreds of additional RXTE papers between 1996 and the present, and creating hundreds of thousands of new bibcode-to-obsid links. RXTE is the most active bibliography by far in this list of retired missions. ASCA - We compiled bibcodes and obsids from 2005 to the present, while others did so from 1994 up to 2005. EUVE - the HEASARC and bibliography include pointed phase Deep Survey/Spectrometer (DS/S) data and papers, but no All-Sky Survey or Right Angle Program data or papers. CGRO - We compiled bibcodes and obsids from 2006 to the present, while others did so from 1992 up to 2006.
Pre-1990 missions:
I've not mentioned the pre-1990 missions, but am taking another look at those now, so will be adding more here as I proceed: ARIEL-V - papers using the ASM (all sky monitor) and SSI (sky survey instrument) are included in the Ariel-V bibliography, since the HEASARC does not include the RMC (rotation modulation colimator), the high resolution proportional counter spectrometer, the polarimeter spectrometer, or the scintillation telescope data. COS-B - papers using the spark chamber gamma-ray detector are included in the COS-B bibliography, since the HEASARC does not include the proportional counter data. SAS-2 - papers using any SAS-2 data are included in the bibliography, as the HEASARC contains raw data for all SAS-2 instruments. Copernicus - papers using the UCL/MSSL x-ray instrument (UCLXE) are included in the Copernicus bibliography. No papers using the Princeton UV telescope/spectrometer (which are listed and data archived at STScI/MAST) are included, since the HEASARC contains the raw UCLXE data. Vela-5B - papers using the x-ray ASM (all sky monitor) instrument, also called the scintillation x-ray detector (XC), are included in the Vela-5B bibliography. No papers using either the gamma-ray detectors, or the hemispherical plate electrostatic analyzer (SM) detectors are included, since the HEASARC contains only the ASM lightcurve data.
Bibcode classification scheme:
These categories come straight from the Chandra Bibliography, though we've altered them somewhat and use the following color-codes in the bibliography lists:
Presents science: This category includes publications that present science which comes from any raw data they have newly processed (they are the PI) or re-processed (archival data). So our publication list includes both team papers and non-team papers.
Reviews science: We created this category on our own for review papers. So it's similar to the "refers to science" category but this would include papers that at least partly focus on summarizing the current state of the field from a perspective, by referring to several other science publications.
Refers to science: This includes publications that only make reference to science from other papers, without adding any new analysis. However, we only include papers that either make some compelling scientific point when referring to other papers (more than just "their data agrees with our Chandra data" for example), or when they create a useful plot that combines science from multiple missions, etc.
Predicts science: The paper makes some sort of quantitative prediction for science, not just "this mission will be useful in the future for this target."
Presents instrumentation, mission, or software: Mostly calibration papers, but also those that summarize the long term mission goals, instruments, or describe calibration software, pipelines, etc.
