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XTE FITS Formatter (XFF)

Mission: XTE.

XFF is an XTE GOF subsystem.

Lead developer: Dr. Arnold H. Rots Function: format all telemetry data into FITS files.

Description: XFF queries the SOF for data available from a list of Application Ids for a given observation, through Data Descriptors. The data are deposited into binary FITS tables, while a hierarchy of ASCII FITS tables keeps track of these various files and serves as a FITS database.