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HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.

XMM-Newton Guest Observer Facility

XMM-NEWTON TREND DATA

The XMM trend data files have been created to provide an easily accessible source of general observatory status with a 64 second cadence for each orbit (~48 hours). The trend data files are grouped by one hundred orbits.

Trend data are in standard FITS files with documentation in the FITS header. With HEASoft installed the file information can be easily accessed using the fits viewer tool fv.

Trend data includes the satellite location and look direction, the operational modes of the EPIC detectors and their count rates in several bands, solar wind parameters from the ACE satellite, and a variety of other details.

SWCX Tool / Soft Proton Tool to display potentially useful PDF images from the trend data files.

A list of the current Orbits/Observations available in the trend archive covering most orbits in the range: 0000-1999.

The following command will allow you to mirror ALL the trend data (33 Gb):

wget -m -o trend_mirror.log -nH --cut-dirs=3 --retr-symlinks -np -A FIT.gz -np -R "index.html*" https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/xmm/data/trend/



If you have any questions concerning XMM-Newton send email to xmmhelp@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov