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General Idiosyncracies

The programs which access the observation data sets require the files to be renamed with a strict convention: for the PSPC these are four files from Rev0 German data sets, five files from Rev0 US data sets, and two from Rev2 RDF data sets. (From here on, the data will be referred to simply as German, US, or RDF.) Table 1 lists the required files and the naming convention. The input file names are listed as found in archived data sets for German and US formatted data, and as the Data Products Guide refers to them for the RDF files. The asterisk (*) stands for the prefix which goes along with US and RDF data set file names; the ``xxx'' string stands for any string up to eight (8) characters long, which must be the same for all files and which is queried for by the programs. For pathetic operating systems which are case sensitive, the upper-case letters in the files names are significant.

 

Archive File Names Tape Renamed File
Position
US PSPC Data
*.cas 17 xxx_ATTITUDE.FITS
*.sa 15 xxx_ATTITUDE1.FITS
*.evr 25 xxx_EVENTRATES.FITS
*.fits 2 xxx_EVENTS.FITS
*.so 14 xxx_ORBIT.FITS
German PSPC Data
ATTITUDE.TFITS 1 xxx_ATTITUDE.FITS
EVENTRATES.TFITS 8 xxx_EVENTRATES.FITS
EVENTS.TFITS 9 xxx_EVENTS.FITS
ORBIT.TFITS 17 xxx_ORBIT.FITS
RDF PSPC Data
*_anc.fits G-1,US-12 xxx_ANC.FITS
*_bas.fits 2 xxx_BAS.FITS
US HRI Data
*.ao 18 xxx_ATTITUDE.FITS
*.ltf 28 xxx_LIVETIME.FITS
*.fits 2 xxx_EVENTS.FITS
*.so 8 xxx_ORBIT.FITS
*.sgi 25 xxx_GTI.FITS
German HRI Data
ATTITUDE.MT 1 xxx_ATTITUDE.FITS
EVENTRATES.MT 5 xxx_EVENTRATES.FITS
EVENTS.MT 6 xxx_EVENTS.FITS
ORBIT.MT 8 xxx_ORBIT.FITS
RDF HRI Data
*_anc.fits G-1,US-6 xxx_ANC.FITS
*_bas.fits 2 xxx_BAS.FITS
Table 1: Required File Nomenclature

The header information contained in the image fits files produced by the code have a limited amount of information included. However, the headers should be sufficient for most purposes. Appendix A shows a sample PSPC header, that of the final count-rate image in the R4 band.


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Michael Arida
Tue Jul 30 15:18:52 EDT 1996