HEASARC Users Guide

The HEASARC Online Services

A User's Guide

High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
Office for Guest Investigator Programs
Code 660
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
USA

April 10, 1998

Contents
Getting Started
- Overview
- HEASARC Login
- Registration
- Environment
- Terminal Environment
- Reporting Problems
BROWSE: Walk Through
- Catalog Search
- Master Catalogs
- Filters and Sorting
- XY Plots
- Histogram Plot
- Aitoff Projection
- ROSAT Images
- Spectra
- Cross Correlation
- EXOSAT Bibliography
BROWSE
- Introduction
- Capabilities
- History
- Basics
Browse Basics
- Starting BROWSE
- Info
- HELP
  - DBHELP
  - Show
- Commands
- Files
- Ending a Session
Searching Databases
- Databases
- Coordinate Search
- Equinox Year
- Name Search
- Parameter Search
- Samples
- Indexes
BROWSE Display
- Parameter Values
- Line Summary
- User Line Summaries
- Statistics
- Sort
- Filters
- Saving Subsamples
- Making Samples
BROWSE Graphics
- Plot Device
- Samples and Subsamples
- QDP
Data Products
- Overview
- Available Products
- Plot Products
- Extract Files
- XSPEC
- XIMAGE and SAOIMAGE
- XRONOS
BROWSE Correlations
- Overview
- Compression
- Cross-Correlations
  - Establishing
- Listing
  - Shift
  - Using
- Resetting
- Correlation Samples
- Multiple Parameters
SQL Interface
- Overview
- Invocation
- Select
- Create
  - View
  - Index
- Exit
Applications
- COCO Conversion of Celestial Coordinates
- NH - HI Galactic Column Density
- PIMMS and Viewing
  - Using PIMMS and Viewing
Miscellaneous
- EXOSAT LE UV Contamination
- Pixel conventions
  - EXOSAT CMA
  - Einstein HRI
- QDP/PLT
Commands
- address - Change user's E-mail address
- asc - Convert EXOSAT lightcurves to ASCII
- browse - Browse through a database
- bulletin - Access BROWSE bulletin board
- cat - Display file data to the terminal
- cd - Change current directory
- coco - Coordinate conversion
- compress - Compress file
- copy - Copy a file into the current directory
- cp - Copy a file into the current directory
- cpd - Set the plot device
- create - Create a sub-directory
- delete - Delete a file
- dir - List files
- dumpfits - Write out a FITS file
- email - Change user's E-mail address
- env - Display current session characteristics
- exit - Terminate the current session
- get - Copy file from user's remote machine
- help - Online help
  - The help facility contains the following features:
- la - List applications
- le_uv - EXOSAT LE UV contamination calculator
- logout - Terminate the current session
- logoff - End the session
- ls - List files
- mail - Mail a file to your email address
- mkdir - Create a directory
- mklepha - Make LE PHA file
- more - Display file data to the terminal with page breaks
- mv - Moves a file into the current working directory
- nh - Get galactic hydrogen column density
- put - Copy file to user's remote machine
- pwd - Print current working directory path
- qdp - Quick and Dandy Plotter
- quit - Terminate the current session
- rdhis - provide mechanism to access results of XSPEC
- recv - Copy file from user's remote machine
- rm - Delete a file
- rmdir - Delete a directory
- send - Copy file to user's remote machine
- show - Display current session characteristics
- type - Display file data to the terminal
- uncompress - Uncompress file
- ximage - X-ray image analysis
- xplot - Provide mechanism to access results of XSPEC
- xronos - Timing analysis
- xspec - A multimission spectral fitting package
BROWSE Commands
- ? - keyword summary
- alias - rename a command string
  - alias/previous [new_name]
  - alias/delete
  - alias/show string
  - alias/system
- cdb - change database
- cey - change equinox year
- chat - control the verbosity of BROWSE
- cind - change index
- class - list BROWSE class flags
- cpd - change plot device
- compress - auto-correlation
  - comp/rad=y.y
  - comp/srad=x.x
  - comp/list
  - comp/par=name
  - comp/par=name/range=x.x
  - comp/time=x.x
  - comp/stats_par=par_name
  - comp/summary
  - comp/mean
  - comp/min
  - comp/max
  - comp/db_stats=name
  - comp/new_db
  - comp/niter
  - comp/full
- cross - cross-correlation between databases
  - cross/db=xxx
  - cross/sample=yyyy
  - cross/rad=y.y
  - cross/srad=x.x
  - cross/list
  - cross/full
  - cross/shift=u.v
  - cross/parm=xxxx
  - cross/range
  - cross/time
- csam - change sample
- dall - display all parameters
  - dall/full
- dat - display ASCII table.
  - dat/full
- dbhelp - database help
  - dbhelp/observatory
  - dbhelp/general
  - dbhelp/database=name
- dclass - list object class
  - dclass/full
- dcoord - list coordinates
  - dcoord/degree
  - dcoord/separation
  - dcoord/full
- dir - list current directory
- dline - display a line
  - dl/full
- dpage - display page
  - dp/full
- dsam - display sample or subsample
  - dsam/full
  - dsam/expanded
- eat - erase an ASCII table
- edb - erase a user database
- eind - erase index
- esam - erase sample
- exit - terminate BROWSE session
- help - BROWSE command help
- ldb - list databases
  - ldb/global
  - ldb/user
  - ldb/brief
- lfiles - list available files
  - lfiles/plot
- lind - list indexes
  - lind/glob
- log - open a log file.
- lparm - list parameters
  - lparm/full
  - lparm/attributes
  - lparm/brief
- lpe - list previous environments
- lsam - list samples
  - lsam/global
- mat - make ASCII table
- mdb - make a user database
  - mdb/spectra
  - mdb/system
- msam - make sample
  - msam/old_sample_file [name]
  - msam/no_correlation [name]
- mind - make index
- pdev - plot device
- pe - previous environment
- pp - plot products
  - pp/plt
  - pp/lightcurve
  - pp/bins=m
  - pp/bglightcurve
  - pp/aslightcurve
  - pp/multiband
  - pp/band1
  - pp/band2
  - pp/band3
  - pp/hardness
  - pp/hard1
  - pp/hard2
  - pp/chi
  - pp/individual
  - pp/oneplot
  - pp/spectrum
  - pp/bgspec
  - pp/assp
  - pp/summary
  - pp/sp/errorbars
  - pp/image
  - pp/x=a
  - pp/y=b
  - pp/size=n
  - pp/nocontour
- psam - plot sample
  - psam/hi [x]
  - psam/hi/bins=m[(min:max)] [x]
  - psam/hi/loga [x]
  - psam/logy [x] [y] [y2] [etc.
  - psam/logx [x] [y] [y2] [etc.
  - psam/cum [x]
  - psam/ait
  - psam/ait/ecliptic
  - psam/ait/celestial
  - psam/plt [x] [y] [y2] [etc.
  - psam/parm=xxxxx
- raf - reset all filters
- rcor - reset correlation
- recall - a previous command
  - recall/max=n
- fotreq - request an EXOSAT FOT
- request - restore nearline data
- rlf - reset last filter
- rsam - reset sample
- save - the current subsample
  - save/r[estore]
  - save/z[ap]
- sc - search by coordinates
  - sc/def
  - sc/rad=a
  - sc/full
  - sc/nodefault
  - sc/previous
- script - echo commands to a file
- sef - set exclusive filter
- show - show current BROWSE status
- sif - set inclusive filter
- skymap - Plot a skymap
- sname - search by name
  - sname/full
  - sname/exclusive
  - sname/sequential
- sort - the sample/subsample
  - sort/ascending
  - sort/descending
- sparm - search by parameter
  - sparm/full
  - sparm/exclusive
  - sparm/sequential
- Statistics - of a parameter
- ximage - X-ray image analysis
  - ximage/pix_to_ra_dec
  - ximage/ra_dec_to_pix
  - ximage/sosta
  - ximage/detect
  - ximage/smooth
  - ximage/display
  - ximage/threshold
  - ximage/nodisplay
  - ximage/psf
  - ximage/contour
  - ximage/nocont
  - ximage/x=a/y=b
  - ximage/x=a/y=b
  - ximage/rebin=n
  - ximage/size=n
  - ximage/thres=n
  - ximage/int
  - ximage/simulate
  - ximage/satellite=xxx
- sort - the sample/subsample
  - sort/ascending
  - sort/descending
- sparm - search by parameter
  - sparm/full
  - sparm/exclusive
  - sparm/sequential
- Statistics - of a parameter
- ximage - X-ray image analysis
  - ximage/pix_to_ra_dec
  - ximage/ra_dec_to_pix
  - ximage/sosta
  - ximage/detect
  - ximage/smooth
  - ximage/display
  - ximage/threshold
  - ximage/nodisplay
  - ximage/psf
  - ximage/contour
  - ximage/nocont
  - ximage/x=a/y=b
  - ximage/x=a/y=b
  - ximage/rebin=n
  - ximage/size=n
  - ximage/thres=n
  - ximage/int
  - ximage/simulate
  - ximage/satellite=xxx
- xp - extract data files/products
  - xp/summary
  - xp/all
  - xp/image
  - xp/spectrum
  - xp/whole
  - xp/lightcurve
  - xp/bglightcurve
  - xp/bgspec
  - xp/multiband
  - xp/name=filename
  - xp/response
  - xp/asspec
  - xp/asbgnd
- xspec - spectral fitting
  - xspec/standard[=fixline]
  - xspec/model=(model_list)
  - xspec/setup=filename
  - xspec/batch
  - xspec/interactiv
BROWSE Command Summary
- Commands
- Help
- Search and Display
- Plot
- Extract
- Correlate
- File Transfer
  - get
  - mail
  - put
- recv
  - send
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Michael Arida
1998-04-10