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Acknowledgements

This guide was the product of effort by many individuals, from the OSSE Principle Investigator Team, to the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory Science Support Center, and even the guest investigators themselves.

The OSSE PI team provided most of the initial documentation from which this guide was constructed, particularly in regard to the Reference Guide. They also provided immeasurable assistance in the construction and validation of the exercises in the text. Among those I particularly wish to thank are Neil Johnson, Mark Strickman, Kellie McNaron-Brown, Byron Leas, Eric Grove, and Dick Kroeger, all at the Naval Research Laboratory.

The guest investigators were particularly helpful in providing insight on what they wish to know from the database. What are useful ways to examine the data for extracting real science from it. In many instances, I was performing the process for the first time working on their data. These tasks were later converted into exercises in this guide. I thank them for their tolerance as I also learned the system, particularly Edison Liang (Rice University), Greg Madejski (GSFC/USRA), Jim Ling and Evren Tumer (JPL), Paul Nandra (GSFC), and Luigi Piro and Marco Feroci (CNR).