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To find and download HEASARC data in the cloud, you can use astroquery.heasarc or download our new tool, hark.

The HEASARC and NuSTAR teams are greatly saddened by the sudden passing of Katja Pottschmidt. Most recently Katja was the lead scientist for the NuSTAR Guest Observer Facility (GOF), a role she had supported for many years. During her science career she worked on many other high energy astrophysics missions and played an integral role in advancing our knowledge of the universe. She was a wonderful colleague and friend and will be keenly missed by all who knew her.

FTOOLS: The EXOSAT Sub-package


The EXOSAT sub-package of FTOOLS contains mission-specific tasks for the EXOSAT mission. These tools analyze the EXOSAT CMA data reformatted in FITS format, as available in the HEASARC archive.

The following EXOSAT tasks were released in the latest distribution of the HEASARC's FTOOLS package. Each task is hyperlinked to the help file distributed with the task. The same information can be obtained while running FTOOLS by typing the command fhelp {taskname}.


EXOSAT Tasks

automerge
Create a list of compatible event files and run exomerge
cmadead
Correct EXOSAT CMA lightcurves and images for deadtime
exoleuv
Estimate the stellar UV count rate for different CMA filters
exomerge
Merge files from a given observation. Update coordinates
exopha
Create one channel spectrum for the EXOSAT CMA
tkexomerge
Create a list of event files via tk interface & run exomerge
exovig
Give the vignetting correction factor for the EXOSAT LE