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ASCA Documentation and Links

ASCA Documentation and Software Manuals

Several documents are available to help you work with your data. We have included HTML and LaTeX versions of these on this disc for the benefit of people with slow network connections. Since the local versions may become out-of-date, we also give links to the current "remote" versions of these documents available via the World Wide Web.

The icons in the table below are linked to the corresponding versions of each document. The LaTeX files are contained in the directory doc/tex. It may be more convenient to access them directly, rather than with your web browser. Note that all the local HTML documents have the same background color as this page to distinguish them from the remote versions.

Document Local Remote

HTML LaTeX HTML

ASCA Getting Started Guide
A guide to ASCA datasets and the files contained in them.

ASCA Data Reduction (ABC) Guide
The definitive text on ASCA data reduction.

Processing Documentation
A detailed description of how your data were processed.

Xselect Data Reduction Software Manual
The standard data reduction software distributed with the FTOOLS.

Xanadu Data Reduction Software Manuals
A set of three data analysis programs: Xspec, Ximage, and Xronos.

Xspec Spectral Analysis Software Manual

Ximage Image Analysis Software Manual

Xronos Timing Analysis Software Manual

ASCA-Related Web Sites

More information about ASCA and ASCA data can be found at the sites listed below:

ASCA Data Processing Center: This is where the data are processed and distributed.
ASCA Guest Observer Facility (GOF): A great deal of information about ASCA plus the ASCA archive.
Institute of Space and Astronomical Science (ISAS): The Japanese organization responsible for ASCA.

E-mail Help Address

If the above documentation does not answer your questions, you can send e-mail to: ascahelp@ascasrv.gsfc.nasa.gov

Document	Local		Remote
Document	HTML	LaTeX	HTML
ASCA Getting Started Guide A guide to ASCA datasets and the files contained in them.
ASCA Data Reduction (ABC) Guide The definitive text on ASCA data reduction.
Processing Documentation A detailed description of how your data were processed.
Xselect Data Reduction Software Manual The standard data reduction software distributed with the FTOOLS.
Xanadu Data Reduction Software Manuals A set of three data analysis programs: Xspec, Ximage, and Xronos.
Xspec Spectral Analysis Software Manual
Ximage Image Analysis Software Manual
Xronos Timing Analysis Software Manual