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FIRAS_CALIBRATION_ERRORS_HIF4.FITS

Primary Header

SIMPLE  =                    T / file does conform to FITS standard             
BITPIX  =                   32 / number of bits per data pixel                  
NAXIS   =                    0 / number of data axes                            
EXTEND  =                    T / FITS dataset may contain extensions            
COMMENT   FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format defined in Astronomy and
COMMENT   Astrophysics Supplement Series v44/p363, v44/p371, v73/p359, v73/p365.
COMMENT   Contact the NASA Science Office of Standards and Technology for the   
COMMENT   FITS Definition document #100 and other FITS information.             
DATE    = '24/09/97'           / FITS file creation date (dd/mm/yy)             
ORIGIN  = 'CDAC    '           /  Cosmology Data Analysis Center                
TELESCOP= 'COBE    '           /  COsmic Background Explorer satellite          
INSTRUME= 'FIRAS   '           /  COBE instrument [DIRBE, DMR, FIRAS]           
OBJECT  = 'ALL-SKY '           /  part of sky given [ALL-SKY, GAL-SLICE]        
PRODUCT = 'CCAL-ERR'           /  Combined calibration errors                   
EQUINOX =               2000.0 /  equinox of coords in following tables         
COMMENT                                                                         
REFERENC= 'For additional information, please refer to the' /                   
REFERENC= 'COBE Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS)' /              
REFERENC= 'Explanatory Supplement, ed. J.C. Mather et al,' /                    
REFERENC= 'COBE Ref. Pub. No. 97-C (Greenbelt, MD: NASA/GSFC),' /               
REFERENC= 'available in electronic form from the NSSDC.' /                      
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT     COBE specific keywords                                              
DATE-BEG= '24/11/89'           /  date of initial data represented (dd/mm/yy)   
DATE-END= '21/09/90'           /  date of final data represented (dd/mm/yy)     
PIXRESOL=                    6 /  Quad tree pixel resolution [6, 9]             
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT     FIRAS specific keywords                                             
CHANSCAN= 'HIF4    '           /  Field indicating combination of data from     
COMMENT                          / various channels and mirror transport        
COMMENT                          / mechanism scan modes.  LOWF is a combination 
COMMENT                          / of the low frequency RLSS, RLFS, RLFL, LLSS, 
COMMENT                          / LLFS, and LLFL data.  HIGH is a combination o
COMMENT   f                                                                     
COMMENT                          / the high frequency RHSS, RHSF, RHLF, LHSS,   
COMMENT                          / LHSF, and LHLF data.  HIF2, HIF3, and HIF4   
COMMENT                          / divide the HIGH data into three frequency    
COMMENT                          / bands, as indicated by the NU_ZERO and       
COMMENT                          / NUM_FREQ fields.  HRES is a combination of th
COMMENT   e                                                                     
COMMENT                          / high resolution RLLF and LLLF data.  For the 
COMMENT                          / uncombined channel/scan mode labels, the firs
COMMENT   t                                                                     
COMMENT                          / two characters of the label indicate the     
COMMENT                          / channel, the first being the instrument side:
COMMENT                          / right (R) or left (L); and the second being  
COMMENT                          / the frequency:  high (H) or low (L).  The    
COMMENT                          / third and fourth characters indicate the scan
COMMENT                          / mode, the third being the scan length:  short
COMMENT                          / (S) or long (L); and the fourth being the sca
COMMENT   n                                                                     
COMMENT                          / speed:  slow (S) or fast (F).  In addition,  
COMMENT                          / the scan mode may take the following values  
COMMENT                          / for low frequency data only (channel = RL or 
COMMENT                          / LL):                                         
COMMENT                          /      FS: decimated SF data;                  
COMMENT                          /      FL: truncated LF data.                  
MODLLABL= 'PASS4   '           /  FIRAS calibration model solution label        
MISS_SEG= 'ENTIRE_MISSION'     /  FIRAS segment of mission represented          
NU_ZERO =            2108.6451 /  Optical frequency of initial data point in GHz
DELTA_NU=            13.604162 /  Optical frequency interval between data points
COMMENT                          / in GHz                                       
NUM_FREQ=                   60 /  Number of frequency points with good data     
END                                                                             

Extension Header 2

XTENSION= 'BINTABLE'           / Extension type is Binary Table                 
BITPIX  =                    8 / Binary data                                    
NAXIS   =                    2 / Data are in a table                            
NAXIS1  =                 2920 / Number of 8 bit bytes in each row              
NAXIS2  =                    1 / Number of rows                                 
PCOUNT  =                    0 / Number of bytes of data following table        
GCOUNT  =                    1 / Group count (always 1 for bintable extensions) 
TFIELDS =                    6 / Number of fields (columns) in the table        
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT    FIRAS Combined Calibration Errors                                    
COMMENT    Project Dataset Record Structure                                     
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT    Error Terms                                                          
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT    Emissivity gain error (dimensionless)                                
TFORM1  = '182E    '           /                                                
TDIM1   = '(182)   '           /                                                
TTYPE1  = 'PEP_GAIN'           /  entire fieldname = PEP_GAIN                   
TUNIT1  = '        '           /                                                
COMMENT    Bolometer parameter gain error (dimensionless)                       
TFORM2  = '182E    '           /                                                
TDIM2   = '(182)   '           /                                                
TTYPE2  = 'JCJ_GAIN'           /  entire fieldname = JCJ_GAIN                   
TUNIT2  = '        '           /                                                
COMMENT    Ical temperature error, in K                                         
TFORM3  = '1E      '           /                                                
TTYPE3  = 'PUP_TEMP'           /  entire fieldname = PUP_TEMP                   
TUNIT3  = 'K       '           /                                                
COMMENT    Ical temperature error spectrum, in MJy/sr                           
TFORM4  = '182E    '           /                                                
TDIM4   = '(182)   '           /                                                
TTYPE4  = 'PUP_SPEC'           /  entire fieldname = PUP_SPEC                   
TUNIT4  = 'MJy/sr  '           /                                                
COMMENT    Absolute temperature error, in K                                     
TFORM5  = '1E      '           /                                                
TTYPE5  = 'PTP_TEMP'           /  entire fieldname = PTP_TEMP                   
TUNIT5  = 'K       '           /                                                
COMMENT    Absolute temperature error spectrum, in MJy/sr                       
TFORM6  = '182E    '           /                                                
TDIM6   = '(182)   '           /                                                
TTYPE6  = 'PTP_SPEC'           /  entire fieldname = PTP_SPEC                   
TUNIT6  = 'MJy/sr  '           /                                                
COMMENT                                                                         
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