Find timeseries for object by simbad resolvable name using ssa_location (↗upjs_ts.ts_ssa):
SELECT TOP 10 * FROM upjs_ts.ts_ssa
WHERE 1=CONTAINS(ivo_simbadpoint('VY UMi'), CIRCLE(ssa_location, ssa_aperture))
Find timeseries for object by simbad resolvable name using ssa_region (↗gaiadr3_eb.ts_ssa):
SELECT TOP 10 * FROM gaiadr3_eb.ts_ssa
WHERE 1=CONTAINS(ivo_simbadpoint('AA And'), ssa_region)
How many photometric measurements of the specified star in filter I and performed during phase 4 are there (↗ogle.lightcurves)?
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ogle.lightcurves l NATURAL JOIN ogle.objects_all WHERE object_id='OGLE-BLAP-051' AND passband='I' AND ogle_phase=4
Estimate the distribution of sources by type. Estimate sources distributeion by types. The ssa_targclass contains one of the SIMBAD object type codes. We can estimate their distribution using the TABLESAMPLE method. This method does not work on non-materialized views (ssa_ts is not), so we will use ↗ogle.raw_data table and pretend we believe that TABLESAMPLE produces truly random sampling
SELECT ssa_targclass, count(*) AS n
FROM ogle.raw_data TABLESAMPLE(0.1)
GROUP BY ssa_targclass
Estimate the distribution of G-band lightcurve lengths from Gaia DR3 epoch photometry using the SSA-style table ↗gaiadr3_eb.ts_ssa. If you are curious why this distribution has two humps, follow the next example, "Lightcurve Length HEALPix Map".
SELECT ROUND(ssa_length/2) * 2 AS bin, count(*) AS n
FROM gaiadr3_eb.ts_ssa
WHERE ssa_bandpass='Gaia G'
GROUP BY bin
Draw HEALPix map showing the the celestial distribution of lightcurve length. To plot it in TOPCAT use Sky Plot --> Add new healpix layer, select the last table, and set HEALPix Data Level to 6:
SELECT round(AVG(ssa_length)) AS length,
ivo_healpix_index(6, coord1(ssa_location), coord2(ssa_location)) AS hpx
FROM gaiadr3_eb.ts_ssa
GROUP BY hpx
To locate columns "by physics", as it were, use UCD in ↗tap_schema.columns. For instance, to find everything talking about the mid-infrared about 10µm, you could write:
SELECT * FROM tap_schema.columns WHERE description LIKE '%em.IR.8-15um%'
To draw HEALPix map of the OCVS ↗ogle.objects_all, use TOPCAT's Sky Plot --> Add new healpix layer control with results of the query. Before running the query, set TOPCAT "Max Rows" to "max"
SELECT count(*) as n, ivo_healpix_index(8, raj2000, dej2000) as hpx
FROM ogle.objects_all GROUP BY hpx
To see actual coverage of Kolonica observations (both images and timeseries), you can plot the result of this query against ↗ivoa.obscore table with TOPCAT (Sky Plot --> Add a new area plot control). Before running the query, set TOPCAT "Max Rows" to "max":
SELECT obs_id, s_region from ivoa.obscore
WHERE obs_collection ILIKE '%kolonica%'