XTENSION= 'BINTABLE' / binary table extension BITPIX = 8 / 8-bit bytes NAXIS = 2 / 2-dimensional binary table NAXIS1 = 44 / width of table in bytes NAXIS2 = 50 / number of rows in table PCOUNT = 0 / size of special data area GCOUNT = 1 / one data group (required keyword) TFIELDS = 10 / number of fields in each row TTYPE1 = 'Ind_Pointer' / label for field 1 TFORM1 = '1J ' / data format of field: 4-byte INTEGER TTYPE2 = 'Ind_Length' / label for field 2 TFORM2 = '1J ' / data format of field: 4-byte INTEGER TTYPE3 = 'Time_MIN' / label for field 3 TFORM3 = '1D ' / data format of field: 8-byte DOUBLE TTYPE4 = 'Time_MAX' / label for field 4 TFORM4 = '1D ' / data format of field: 8-byte DOUBLE TTYPE5 = 'X_MIN' / label for field 5 TFORM5 = '1J ' / data format of field: 2-byte INTEGER TTYPE6 = 'X_MAX' / label for field 6 TFORM6 = '1J ' / data format of field: 2-byte INTEGER TTYPE7 = 'Y_MIN' / label for field 7 TFORM7 = '1J ' / data format of field: 2-byte INTEGER TTYPE8 = 'Y_MAX' / label for field 8 TFORM8 = '1J ' / data format of field: 2-byte INTEGER TTYPE9 = 'PHA_MIN' / label for field 9 TFORM9 = '1I ' / data format of field: 2-byte INTEGER TTYPE10 = 'PHA_MAX' / label for field 10 TFORM10 = '1I ' / data format of field: 2-byte INTEGER EXTNAME = 'TABLE_INDEX' / this extension is an index of a FITS table INDTABLE= `myfile.fits:BINTABLE:EVENTS:1' / name of the table that is indexed IAXIS = 1 / dimensionality of the index ITYPE1 = '(row#) ' / reserved virtual column name IAXIS1 = 50 / number of bins in this axis of the index ISTRT1 = 1. / beginning value of first index bin IDELT1 = 1000. / width of the index bin END
The table contains 50 rows and 10 columns:
IND_POINTER IND_LENGTH TIME_MIN TIME_MAX X_MIN X_MAX Y_MIN Y_MAX PHA_MIN PHA_MAX ----------- ---------- -------- -------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ------- ---- 1 1000 11035. 41700. 17 490 23 502 13 11 1001 1000 5010. 42150. 26 468 5 511 18 123 . . . . . . . . . .