Reformatting the Ginga Database to FITS and the Creation of a Data Products Archive

R. H. D. Corbet^1,2, C. Larkin¹, J. A. Butcher³, J. P. Osborne³, J. A. Nousek¹

[1]Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab., University Park, PA 16802
[2]Now NASA/GSFC, Code 666, Greenbelt, MD 20771
[3]Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

Abstract:

We present status reports on projects to make both raw data and products from the Ginga X-ray astronomy satellite available in FITS formats to the general astronomical community.

• Introduction
• The Ginga Mission
• Data Products Archive
• Reformatting to FITS
• Other Tools
• Acknowledgments
• References
• A 25kB gzipped PostScript reprint