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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 HEAO1 Sub-package


The HEAO1 sub-package of FTOOLS contains mission-specific tasks for the High Energy Astronomy Observatory mission.

The following CGRO 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}.


HEAO1 Tasks

a2source
Find HEAO1 A2 raw rate files for a given sky position
a2lcurve
Extract lightcurve from HEAO1 A2 rate data
dsdlcurve
Extract scanning profile from HEAO1 A2 DSDISK data