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Vocabulary: http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/product-type
Author: msdemlei@ari.uni-heidelberg.de
Date: 2025-06-05

New Term: response-function
Action: Addition
Label: Response Function
Description: A mapping between a physical quantity and an observable
quantity as for instance, the response of a CCD in the focal plane of
an instrument to the flux from a point source.
Relationships:
Used-in: As a parent of #psf

New Term: psf
Action: Addition
Label: Point Spread Function
Description: The distribution of detected particles emitted by a point
source for a given observation configuration.
Relationships: narrower than response-function
Used-in: Try
select top 20 * from ivoa.ObsCore where dataproduct_type='psf'
on the TAP service at <https://cda.cfa.harvard.edu/csc2tap>.

New Term: arf
Action: Addition
Label: Ancillary Response File
Description: A 2D array giving for each pixel the effective area times
the quantum efficiency resulting from the combined
telescope/filter/detector areas averaged over the observation time.
This is generally dependent on the energies of the messenger particles
used.
Relationships: narrower than response-function
Used-in: Try
select top 20 * from ivoa.ObsCore where dataproduct_type='arf'
on the TAP service at <https://cda.cfa.harvard.edu/csc2tap>.

Rationale:
#response-function-s need to be labelled as products in obscore
tables to make them discoverable independently of any particular
observation. For instance, Chandra users have extracted a few sources
from the catalogue and now want to locate PSFs for the observations
that went into these sources. They will be able to do that by
constraining dataproduct_type to psf and giving further constraints on
space, time, or energy.