The CALDB as Installed at the
HEASARC
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CAL/GEN/91-001:
"The HEASARC Calibration Database (brief overview)" (Nov 22 2005 Version; html, pdf)
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CAL/GEN/93-006:
"The Organization of the HEASARC CALDB" (Nov 28 2005 Version; html, pdf)
CALDB Installation, Maintenance and Use
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CAL/GEN/94-004:
"How to Install a Calibration Database" (2009 Aug 04 version; html, pdf)
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CAL/GEN/92-015:
"How to Manage a Calibration Database" (November 16, 2005 version; html, pdf)
Entirely rewritten in Nov 2005; Breedon's original version is still available.
User Guides
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CAL/GEN/94-002:
"The Calibration Database User's Guide" (html, pdf)
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OGIP/95-008:
"MATHPHA User's Guide" (html, pdf)
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CAL/SW/93-010:
"The GRPPHA User's Guide" (html,
pdf)
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CAL/SW/93-011:
"CALCRPSF User's Guide" (html, pdf)
(organized alphabetically)
CALDB-Related
Legacy articles
- Recent
Updates to GRPPHA Yusaf and George (Legacy 6, Sep 1995)
- Calibrating BBXRT
Weaver (Legacy 5, Nov 1994)
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The ROSAT PSPC: The Off-Axis Point Spread Function
Hasinger, Boese, Predehl, Turner, Yusaf, George, Rohrbach (Legacy 4, Feb 1994)
- The ROSAT PSPC: The On-Axis Point Spread Function:
In-Flight comparison with the PANTER results
Addendum: High Signal-to-Noise In-Flight Data
Hasinger, Turner, George, Boese (Legacy 3, 1993 May)
- A
Recalibration of the EXOSAT Diffraction Gratings
Paerels, Wolkovitch & Kahn (Legacy 2, Nov 1992)
- The
Calibration Requirements for Spectral Analysis George, Arnaud, Pence &
Ruamsuwan (Legacy 2, Nov 1992)
- The ROSAT PSPC: The On-Axis Point Spread Function:
In-Flight comparison with the PANTER results Hasinger, Turner,
George, Boese (Legacy 2, Nov 1992)
- Calibration
Sources for Spectral Analysis Seward (Legacy 2, Nov 1992)
- The HEASARC Calibration Database George (Legacy 1, May 1992)
FITS Calibration File Formats/Conventions
- CAL/SW/2006-001: "Length Limits In Calibration Database Software and Files"
(html;
pdf)
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CAL/GEN/92-011:
"Required and Recommended FITS keywords for Calibration Files" (html, pdf)
A list of required keywords is also available.
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OGIP/93-001:
"Specification of Physical Units within OGIP FITS files" (html, ps)
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OGIP/93-013:
"Standard Strings for Mission, Instrument, Filter, Detector
& Grating Names for OGIP FITS files" (html, ps)
Feb 17, 2006: A draft update of this memo is now available (pdf, html;
Excel Workbook)
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OGIP/94-001:
"Standard strings for Detector Operating and Observing Modes"
(html,
ps)
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CAL/GEN/92-003:
"Basic Calibration File (BCF) & Calibration Product File (CPF) Guidelines"
(html,
pdf)
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CAL/GEN/92-008:
"Calibration Index Files" (html, pdf)
High Energy Spectrometry & Timing File Formats
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CAL/GEN/92-002:
"The Calibration Requirements for Spectral Analysis." (html, pdf)
(A description of the RMF & ARF OGIP file formats; published in Legacy, 2, 51.)
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CAL/GEN/92-002a:
"The Calibration Requirements for Spectral Analysis
(Addendum)" (html, pdf)
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OGIP/92-007:
"The OGIP Spectral File Format" (html,
pdf)
- The OGIP Spectral File Format Addendum: Changes log (OGIP/92-007a) (html,
pdf)
- OGIP/92-009: "The XSPEC Table Model File Format" (html, pdf)
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OGIP/96-001:
"The Format for WMAPs in Spectral Files" (html, pdf)
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OGIP/93-003:
"The Proposed Timing FITS File Format for High Energy Astrophysics Data"
(html,
pdf)
General Instrumental Calibration Files
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CAL/GEN/92-019:
"The HEASARC format for Effective Areas" (html, pdf)
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CAL/GEN/92-020:
"The HEASARC format for Radial PSF datasets" (html, pdf)
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CAL/GEN/92-021:
"The HEASARC format for Vignetting Functions" (html, pdf)
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CAL/GEN/92-022:
"The HEASARC format for Obscuration Factor datasets" (html, pdf)
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CAL/GEN/92-024:
"The HEASARC format for Filter & Window Transmissions" (html, pdf)
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CAL/GEN/92-027:
"The HEASARC format for 2D (image) PSF datasets" (html, pdf)
CALDB Software Documentation
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CAL/SW/95-002:
"HEASARC CALDB Access Subroutines" (html, pdf) Updated 2006-08-21
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CAL/SW/93-005:
"Summary of CALLIB Routines" (html, pdf)
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CAL/SW/93-004:
"Summary of CALTOOLS Tasks" (html, pdf)
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OGIP/92-012:
"The OGIP FORTRAN Programming Standard" (html, pdf)
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CAL/SW/93-018:
"How to Install Callib & Caltools software" (html, pdf)
Data Delivery
In Progress
- CAL/GEN/2004-001: "Specifying the Location of Defects in Charge Coupled Devices: The BADPIX File Format"
(pdf)
Page author:
Michael F. Corcoran
Last updated: Monday, 01-Jun-2020 16:32:44 EDT.
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