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.
hkbin
Bin up HK parameters
Bins a curve of selected parameters from an HK file. If the files are in unexpanded form, they will be expanded as well.
Syntax:
xsel > hkbin <param> [<dtime>]
If an event lightcurve has been extracted (using extract curve) then hkbin will bin up the selected parameters using the same binning as the lightcurve and copy the event RATE column into the output file. In this case the <dtime> argument is not required.
Example:
xsel > hkbin "RBM_MON GASX" 120.0
This bins the relevant parameters in 120-sec bins.