[1]The KNIFE ray-tracing program is scheduled to be made available as part of the normal FTOOLS software release by the end of this year.

[2]The guard rate is a housekeeping parameter that measures the rate of particle interactions with the plastic scintillator guard that surrounded most of the detector.


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HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.