Important Changes to ObsID Directory Naming Scheme

February 01, 2000

Our solution to the transponder failure includes a number of changes to the obsID directory naming scheme. For details of the categories of data loss, the naming changes that indicate that data loss may have occurred, the compensatory changes to the GTI definition, and the possible effects of all this on your RXTE data analysis, please examine our new data analysis recipe at http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/recipes/data_gaps.html