Table · dataset · 2026
AMS-02 All Particle Rates Catalog
Listed in IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory)
The AMS02RATES database table records the incident rates for all particle species obtained with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment on the International Space Station (ISS), a cosmic ray particle detector installed in May 2011.
Description
The experiment consists of several components, which collectively measure particle species, energy, geomagnetic rigidity, or veto off-axis particles and high-energy photons. The experiment covers the energy range of ~0.1 GeV - ~2 TeV.
AMS-02 is the result of a collaboration between MIT, the University of Hawaii, CERN, NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and ESA. It was launched on the Space Shuttle Endeavor (STS-134) on May 16, 2011 and was installed three days later at which time science operations commenced. Operations were interrupted by in-flight servicing of the cooling pumps for the silicon tracker: servicing took place between November 2019 and January 2020, after which science operations were restored.
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It is anticipated to continue operations for as long as the ISS itself remains functional. The rate at which all particle species are observed within a one-second time integration period is recorded for each interval, corrected for the livetime fraction. Each integration period contains the livetime value, observed rate, and the position of the AMS-02 instrument in latitude, longitude, and radius from the Earth's center in the Earth Centered Earth Fixed (ECEF) frame of reference.
This database table was first ingested by the HEASARC in July 2026. The AMS-02 team in collaboration with the HEASARC developed the FITS file structure for these data which were created by the HEASARC from daily particle rate data provided by the AMS collaboration. The data and the database table are updated periodically to reflect additional data as they become available.
This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Links
Where it is published
- Reference page heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/ams02rates.html ↗
landing page · from IVOA Registry
Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/nasa.heasarc/ams02rates ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- Stated by source
- Gamma-Ray
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Inferred from text
- Tabular 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://nasa.heasarc/ams02rates | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:gamma-ray | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:tabular | enrichment · IVOA Registry | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| publication_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_title |
| updated_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 |