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ROSAT Documentation |
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Documentation about the ROSAT mission from
the Scientific Data Center of MPE.
If you have questions please contact our ROSAT service:
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xray-info @ mpe . mpg . de
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ROSAT Instruments |
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A guide to the Astronomical X-Ray Satellite ROSAT Intended to provide
ROSAT users with an overview of all technical aspects of ROSAT ·
With special emphasis on the calibration of the various instruments
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik ·
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ·
Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ·
University of Leicester
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Description:
Manual for preparing a ROSAT proposal ·
Version: AO-2 from 1991 ·
Publisher:
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik ·
Note:
Technical Appendix - otherwise known as Appendix F
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Description:
Documents about the ROSAT boresighting,
space craft clock data, PSPC point spread function (PSF)
and gain variations, HRI PSF and hot spots, etc.
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ROSAT Data |
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Description: Description of the data products
which all observers will receive as a result of being granted time
on the ROSAT satellite ·
Authors: K. Dennerl, J. Englhauser, R. Gruber, et al.
Publisher:
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
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Description: Description of the HRI data products
which all observers will receive as a result of being granted time
on the ROSAT satellite
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Description: Documents about the ROSAT data processing:
problems, attitude, RDF files, accepted time intervals,
sequence numbers, SASS, etc.
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Software Analysis |
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Description: Extended X-ray Scientific Analysis System
to Evaluate Data from the Astronomical X-ray Satellite ROSAT ·
Authors: U. Zimmermann, G. Boese, W. Becker,
T. Belloni, S. Döbereiner, C. Izzo, P. Kahabka, and O. Schwentker
Publisher:
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik · MPE Report
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Description: Detailed description of all
eXsas commands as available in the interactive
eXsas Help · Note:
Supplement to the eXsas User's Guide
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Description: List of eXsas commands ·
Note: Supplement to the
eXsas User's Guide
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Description: Calculation of off-axis angles ·
Maximum likelihood estimation of X-ray single point source
parameters · ML equation in eXsas and
SASS · The ROSAT Point Spread Function and Associates
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Description: ESO-MIDAS is decribed in full detail
in a number of documents. These cover the needs for MIDAS users,
describe the installation procedure of ESO-MIDAS, give support to
those who intend to develop MIDAS applications, and finally inform
the user community about recent developments.
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Description: Astronomical Software,
Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Extended Source Analysis Software, MIDAS Procedures at AIP,
ROSAT Data Analysis at AIT, FITS, FTOOLS, PROS, XANADU, XAS, etc.
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ROSAT more general |
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Description: Brochure, edited by the
Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie, Bonn, Germany
and Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Köln,
Germany on the occation of the ROSAT launch ·
The electronic version has been updated and modified by the
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching,
Germany.
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Authors: Bernd Aschenbach, Hermann-Michael Hahn,
Joachim Trümper ·
Publ.: Copernicus, New York: 1998, QB472.A83 ·
Transl.: Translated from the German edition
Der unsichtbare Himmel - Astronomie mit ROSAT
by Helmut Jenkner
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Description: Collection of ROSAT images ·
Publ.: Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische
Physik, Deutsche Agentur für Raumfahrtangelegenheiten, now DLR
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Description: 29 short contribution covering the
whole spectrum of astronomical X-ray sources.
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© X-Ray Group at MPE (group)
last update:2001/02/26 12:44:46, editor of this page:O. Schwentker
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