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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 VELA 5B Sub-package
The VELA 5B sub-package of FTOOLS contains mission-specific tasks for the VELA 5B mission.
The following VELA 5B 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}.
VELA 5B Tasks
- fvelalc
- Creates a FITS light curve for an isolated Vela 5B source
- fvelmap
- Creates a set of FITS source maps of a rectangular region
- fvelgallc
- Creates multiple light curves for sources in confused fields
- velabox
- Lists the Vela 5B raw data files needed for FVELALC
- velamap
- Lists the Vela 5B raw data files needed for FVELMAP