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FTOOLS: The OSO8 Sub-package

The OSO8 sub-package of FTOOLS contains mission-specific tasks for the OSO8 mission. These tools extract lightcurves for the B and C detectors on the OSO8 Goddard Cosmic X-ray Spectrometer Experiment. They work on the OSO8 rate data files in fits format as available in the HEASARC archive.

The following OSO8 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}.

OSO8 Tasks

osofindfast
Find OSO8 raw rate files for a given sky position
osorat
Extract lightcurve from OSO8 raw rate data (B&C detector)
osopha
Extract spectra & lightcurve from OSO8 pha data (B&C detector)
FTOOLS HELP DESK

If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this site (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools) and use the ASCL reference for HEASoft [ascl:1408.004] or the ASCL reference for the original FTOOLs paper [ascl:9912.002]:

Blackburn, J. K. 1995, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 77, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes (San Francisco: ASP), 367.