EXSAS user's guide. Extended Scientific Analysis System to evaluate data from the astronomical X-ray satellite ROSAT.

Abstract

For data evaluation support of ROSAT observers the ROSAT Scientific Data Center (RSDC) at the Max-Planck Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) in Garching has set up a Standard Processing and Analysis System (SASS) routinely applied to all data and the Extended Scientific Analysis System (EXSAS) for individual interactive data analysis work of the ROSAT observers. Although EXSAS has been developed specifically for data analysis of the ROSAT instruments, its structural design is sufficiently general to serve equally well also data from other X-ray and XUV instruments. EXSAS has been built on top of the well-known and widely accepted ESO-MIDAS environment and is thus available to the many astronomical sites already using MIDAS. (orig./HM)