WISeREP has been serving since 2011 as an archive of SN spectra and photometry, including both historical (legacy) data and data that are accumulated and published by ongoing modern surveys and programs (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012; 2012PASP..124..668Y).
The repository provides information about objects, their spectra, photometry and related metadata, and as of May 2021 consists of >33,000 public spectra for >15,000 objects (mostly SNe).
We're glad to notify that WISeREP was officially migrated today to the AWS cloud, and the production site is now available at: https://www.wiserep.org. The Sandbox environment is active at https://sandbox.wiserep.org.
All registered users, groups and memberships remain as they are; so there is no need to re-register or perform any changes.
We take this opportunity to remind and clarify the following:
- In the new WISeREP version (deployed Sep 2018), the uploading and contribution of data (spectra, light curves, phase information...) is done directly by the registered users/bots, with the possibility to use either the interactive report form or via bulk uploads – using either the Bulk Report Form or the available APIs.
- Please check the Help page for detailed explanations, including downloadable Python sample codes (under the API-Bulk Report section).
- There are separate Search pages for objects and spectra, which contain many query options, as well as the possibility to retrieve specific spectra (also of different objects) for over-plotting on the aggregated spectra plot.
- Spectral plots have interactive analysis utils, including overplotting of many relevant elements (and ionization levels), with the ability to specify redshifts and expansion velocities, as well as specific functions (built in a unique javascript tool - "iFigure") for obtaining blackbody fits (temperatures), line fluxes, FWHM etc.
- A clarification about the TNS & WISeREP: The TNS is a name server and the official hub for reporting the discovery of extragalactic transients. As such, it mainly hosts discovery and classification information (photometry points and classification spectra). WISeREP is a general data repository, of mostly supernovae but also other transients and objects of interest (CVs, Novae, AGNs etc), therefore this is the natural place for holding more extended light curves and spectral sequences, and making those available to the public.
- All TNS classified objects are automatically migrated to WISeREP, with the object details and spectra.
- Synthetic (computed) spectra are also being hosted on WISeREP with references to the published papers, and we encourage the contribution of those for further exposure of the modeling efforts and the ability to compare it (using our interactive over-plotting functionality) with the observed spectra.
- Last, a reminder that all groups and memberships are self-managed by the (registered) users; so WISeREP is ideal (and is being used extensively by several groups/surveys) also as a sharing platform among group members; which is found useful and valuable for the sharing of both the proprietary and the public data.
Don't forget to update your URLs and links, including those that are being specified in papers.
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