HEAO 1 A2 Raw Rates Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. HEASARC
  2. Published by
    NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Abstract
      The A2 experiment was flown on the HEAO-1 satellite, between August, 1977 until January 1979. The experiment consisted of six multi-layer multi-anode collimated gas proportional counters. These were two LEDs (Low Energy Detectors), a MED (Medium Energy Detector), and three HEDs (High Energy Detectors). The first 6-months of mission were dedicated to an all-sky scan after which a pointing phase started. This database accesses the raw rate data obtained from the A2 MED (small and large field of view, FOV) and HEDs (1,2 and 3 small and large filed of view) detectors during the scanning and pointed phase. Note: This database does not contain coordinates. Since the satellite was mostly scanning, the XRATE database, from which the FITS files are generated, was organized in time. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
    
Keywords
  1. Observation
Bibliographic source
See also HTML
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/a2rtraw.html
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://nasa.heasarc/a2rtraw

Access

IVOA Table Access TAP
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
Web browser access HTML
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_a2rtraw&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1

History

2026-04-10T00:00:00
Resource record created
2026-04-10

Contact

Name
NASA/GSFC HEASARC help desk
E-Mail
heasarc-vo at athena.gsfc.nasa.gov