Downloading Suzaku Data from the HEASARC
If you know the sequence number of a public Suzaku observation, it can be downloaded as follows. For example, sequence "314159265" would be available at:
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/suzaku/data/obs/3/31415926
Note that the Suzaku archive (suzaku/data/obs) is divided into subdirectories named after the first digit of the sequence number (3 in this case).
The data can be retrieved via ftp or wget. Below are the commands to retrive this fictitious sequence with FTP and wget.
Retrieving via FTP
example% ftp legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov login: anonymous password : (your e-mail address) ftp> cd suzaku/data/obs/3 ftp> binary ftp> get 314159265.tar.gz ftp> quit
NOTE: The tar file is automatically generated for the transfer when the above commands are issued.
Retriving via wget
If you have wget installed, the following command will retrieve this sequence:
wget --passive-ftp -q -nH --cut-dirs=5 -r -l0 -c -N -np --retr-symlinks ftp://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/suzaku/data/obs/3/314159265/
NOTE: The above command should be issued without a line break, although it may be displayed with one in your browser window.
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