Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Mission description
  • Operation
  • Observation program
  • The Astro-DGuest Observer Facility
  • Data processing software
  • Overview
• Instruments
  • Telescope
  • SIS
    • CCD clocking modes
    • CCD data modes
  • GIS
  • Telemetry architecture, rates and on-board storage capacity
• Data description
  • Original data files
    • Overview
    • First reduction file
    • Attitude file
    • Orbit file
    • Mission time-line
    • Tape summary
    • Quick-look data
  • Stage-1 data files
    • Science file
    • Housekeeping file
    • Data log
  • Stage-2 data files
    • Filtered science file
  • Calibration data
    • Telescope
    • SIS
    • GIS
  • Derived data products and catalogs
  • Data volume
• Processing system
  • Overview
  • Database management
  • Stage 1
    • Receipt and ingestion of original data
    • Reformatting
  • Stage 2
    • Concatenation
  • Data selection
    • Philosophy
    • FTOOLS
    • XSELECT
  • Analysis
    • Overview
  • Instrument dependent items
  • Distribution of data, data products and analysis system
  • System testing and data simulation
• Guest Observer Support
  • Proposal support
  • Proposal support: simulated data
  • Data analysis support
  • Documentation
  • Guest Observer support in Japan
  • Community oversight
• The Astro-DArchive
  • Policy issues
  • Archive responsibilities
  • Contents
  • Archival access
  • Data products and catalogs
  • Documentation and software
• Acronyms
• Astro-D FITS files