ASAS-SNSky PatrolV3

Citing Sky Patrol

What to cite when you use Sky Patrol V3 data, and how to record exactly which data you used.

API 3.1 · stars release 55c97bc0c218a6c5 · SS release ef7caf53a399bc1f

How to cite

When using ASAS-SN Sky Patrol V3 data in publications, please cite the V3 paper (in preparation), Kochanek et al. (2017) and Shappee et al. (2014), and give the release ids of the data you used.

Papers#

Which papers to cite is not final: the V3 paper is in preparation, and it is still open whether Kochanek et al. (2017) stays on the list and whether the solar-system data need a citation of their own.

  • Shappee, B. J., et al. 2014, ApJ, 788, 48: the ASAS-SN survey.
  • Kochanek, C. S., et al. 2017, PASP, 129, 104502: the ASAS-SN light-curve server.

BibTeX#

BibTeX
@ARTICLE{2014ApJ...788...48S,
  author  = {{Shappee}, B.~J. and {Prieto}, J.~L. and {Grupe}, D. and {Kochanek}, C.~S. and
             {Stanek}, K.~Z. and others},
  title   = "{The Man behind the Curtain: X-Rays Drive the UV through NIR Variability
             in the 2013 Active Galactic Nucleus Outburst in NGC 2617}",
  journal = {ApJ}, year = 2014, volume = {788}, pages = {48},
  doi     = {10.1088/0004-637X/788/1/48}, eprint = {1310.2241}
}

@ARTICLE{2017PASP..129j4502K,
  author  = {{Kochanek}, C.~S. and {Shappee}, B.~J. and {Stanek}, K.~Z. and others},
  title   = "{The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) Light Curve Server v1.0}",
  journal = {PASP}, year = 2017, volume = {129}, pages = {104502},
  doi     = {10.1088/1538-3873/aa80d9}, eprint = {1706.07060}
}

Release ids#

A paper should say which data it used. Give the dataset's release id, and the serve_id if you want others to fetch exactly the same values:

DatasetReleaserelease_idserve_id
StarsskypatrolV3_packed_2026102955c97bc0c218a6c52fa9345281389dd39a8c4bd139d55c14ca87bd209a760d094b8c08cfa8db7f77
Solar systemskypatrolSS_ss1_20261110ef7caf53a399bc1f041b92883a3793bcf362f12899312c429f0c3c70e7ac60539da09aa7b791c1e0

Every download carries these ids: the release_id and serve_id comment lines of a CSV file, the header of every other format, and the X-SP3-Serve-Id response header. The website shows them on the Provenance & citation tab. A URL under /v3/r/{serve_id}/ returns the same bytes for as long as that serve_id is served.

Example text: "We used ASAS-SN Sky Patrol V3 light curves (stars release 55c97bc0c218a6c5, retrieved 2026 December) ..." The first 16 hex digits of the release id identify it.

Acknowledgement#

ASAS-SN is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through grants GBMF5490 and GBMF10501, by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through grant G202114192, and by the U.S. National Science Foundation through grant AST-1908570.