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EXOSAT RAW LE FITS File

The Original EXOSAT raw data were distributed in a FOT (FInal Observaton Tape). For a given observation, each FOT contains data from one experiment. HEASARC has reformatted the FOT data from the Low energy experiment (LE) into FITS file. The reformatting procedure used the Interactive Analysis software to read the data. For each LE FOT there are 4 different basic types of FITS files :

While there is one catalog and one orbit file per FOT, the event and HK files are a variable number depending on the number of good time periods.

This document describes the content of each file type.

There are a number of ways time is expressed in the FOTs. These time formats are carried over into the Raw FITS file.



 
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Leonard Garcia
1999-05-26