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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.

BeppoSAX U.S. Coordination Facility

Activities


* BeppoSAX Software release
  • Testing of the WFC software
  • Multi-platforms testing of SAXDAS under the FTOOLS 5.0 prior release of both packages
  • Include Xselect updates for the MECS and LECS under the FTOOLS 5
  • Provides new software releases for the NFI and WFC instruments in the HEASARC FTP area
* Support for AO2 & AO3
  • Implementing the SAX WEBSPEC for simulation
  • Update of the variuos tools for simulation
  • Documentation on line for AO2,AO3,AO4,AO5
* Archive
  • SAX Archive opened February 1998. HEASARC has an agreement with the SDC for an archive exchange. A copy of the SAX archive will be given to HEASARC in exchange for other high energy data archived at HEASARC. CD-rom will be use for data transfer.
  • Purchase and set-up the CD-rom facility at HEASARC
  • A 86% of the public data are now available also via the HEASARC (March 2002). Updates have a lag of 6 mounths.
* Calibration data Ingest
  • Ingest the calibration data MECS, LECS, HPGSPC and PDS (BCF and CPF files)
    in the CALDB
  • Responses and background files are also available in the sax/cal directories in ftp area on legacy
  • Updates of the BeppoSAX calibration data at HEASARC when availble fron
* Database Ingest
  • Establish a procedure to retrieve the database and their updates
  • Set up scripts to generate database tables for Browse
    (Databases updated every 1-2 months). The databases are : SAXNFILOG, log of the observations carried out with the Narrow Field Instruments, SAXWFCLOG, log of the observations carried out with WFC, SAXAO, log of approved proposals.
* Mirror side and FTP area
  • Set up the local WWW BeppoSAX home page
  • Set up a Mirror of the WWW SAX-SDC in Rome (run dayly)
  • Set up a local FTP area dedicated to BeppoSAX
    (mirror of SAX-SDC selected directories every one-two weeks)

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This file was last modified on Monday, 29-Apr-2002 19:24:59 EDT