BeppoSAX WFC Archive
- WFCs were operated in :
- Prime mode when the WFCs were the prime instruments.
- Secondary mode, when the NFIs were the prime instruments. The WFC data were not distributed to the NFI PI.
- The WFC secondary data were distributed to the WFC hardware team and to the BeppoSAX SDC
- The data (primary or secondary) were distributed in a FOT format (no FITS)
- The WFC camera software was implemented & maintained by SRON:
- software translate data in FITS and operates on FITS files
- The software had several problems (especially for faint sources) & the set-up of a standard pipeline was not possible until very recently
- The FOT production and distribution is man power intensive; prompt distribution to users requesting large amounts of data was not possible
Public WFC data were not available to users from the main BeppoSAX archive, either as FOT or via the Web or via FTP