National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This page is updated as the instrument teams provide updated and revised calibration files and software. Hence we recommend that users consult this page and those referenced herein before and after analyzing RXTE data. In particular, see the series of news items below

The current calibration status associated with FITs ASM data are described on ASM Light Curves Overview page.

The current calibration status associated with HEXTE data are described in UCSD's HEXTE data analysis and calibration news.

For the latest information on background subtraction models, response matrices, and other PCA data analysis issues, consult the PCA Digest

The PCA Team provides up-to-date calibration information on its own instrument team page.

Step-by-step instructions for running PCABACKEST can be found in the PCABACKEST Recipe in the RXTE Cookbook.

For your convenience, we have an ENERGY-CHANNEL Conversion Table covering the four gain epochs and using the latest calibration file.

This page is maintained by the RXTE GOF and was last modified on Wednesday, 24-Aug-2022 11:10:31 EDT.