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... Even with today's advances in networking, file system capacities and CD technology it is often necessary to transport and store scientific data sets on magnetic tape. The FITS data format standard contains guidelines on how to write FITS files to magnetic tape but does not address the problem of indexing or organizing tape files. ... 8--16 GB per 4mm tape). ... This paper presents a convention for writing self-describing magnetic tapes that contain FITS formatted data files. ...

Next: Examples of Setup Files Up: Setup Files Previous: Setup Files Contents . Over 200 standard setup files have been created, covering many of the normal modes of observing. ... These especially include precisely defined, and somewhat complex cases like the Mark III standard modes (although MarkIII went the way of the dinosaur long ago. ... v '' files: . These are setup files for VLBI observations using VLBA recording formats. ... These are setup files for Mark III observations. ...

... List of SAS threads . This thread contains a (very!) simple standard XSPEC session for fitting data from the X-ray cameras. ... Start XSPEC . ... Load spectrum data: . ... response 1 PN.rmf . ... plot data . Fig.1: XSPEC data plot . Ignore bad channels in data: . ... The latter, the maximum number of channels to bu summed. plot data with model adjustment and e.g. the residuals (alternatives, ratio data/model, absolute chi-squared, etc) . ... Fig.2: XSPEC data, model and residual plot . ...

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... map8bittorf - convert an 8bit map to a sun raster file (ao) map8bittorf -c numcols -r numrows . map8bittorf is a filter to convert an 8 bit map to a sun raster file. The input is taken from the standard input and the output is written to standard output. The the input map size should be numcols columns (number of horizontal pixels) by numrows rows (number of vertical pixels). ... The number of horizontal pixels in the input map. -r numrows . ... This will not work for 1 bit data. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . OIFITS: A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry . ... OIFITS is a standard for exchanging calibrated, time-averaged data from astronomical optical interferometers , based on the FITS Standard (OIFITS is a registered FITS convention ). ... The OIFITS standard is used in the biennial optical interferometry Imaging Beauty Contests: . ... A data exchange standard for optical (visible/IR) interferometry. ...

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