The Leicester Ginga Archive Products Databases

The products databases contain a quality controlled set of processed Ginga data products. All target and background observations taken in MPC1 mode are made available through the LEDAS database tables GINGALAC and GINGABGD respectively. Thus, the products databases include approximately 80% of Ginga target observations and almost all background observations. The database tables not only provide a summary of the results of each observation, but they provide access to the data products. These include FITS spectra (48 channel, top- and mid-layer separated) and light curves (16 second time resolution), HDS and FITS data cubes and the plots produced during the pipeline processing (a paper is available describing the processing). These products can be used either with the XANADU suite of software, the FTOOLS software package or the Ginga data analysis software.

You can access the GINGABGD and GINGALAC products databases through either ARNIE (the ARchive Network InterfacE for LEDAS) via the WWW or BROWSE by using an SSH connection to the Leicester Database node ledas2.star.le.ac.uk (log in as ledas). You can select data according to target name, pointing direction, observation date etc. and retrieve the results by clicking on the links in ARNIE or by using the xp command from within BROWSE. A full description of the database tables is available from both ARNIE and BROWSE.