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ASCA Guest Observer Facility

The Tartarus Database (Version 3.1)

During its life, ASCA performed 661 observations of objects designated as active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The Tartarus (Version 3.1) database contains events files, images, spectra, and light curves for 611 of these observations, i.e. for all cases where it was possible to produce data products. Results from rudimentary spectral fitting are also provided.

Data Products

Ordered lists of observing sequences

Description of Tartarus products


Analysis and Documentation

An introduction to Tartarus (Version 3.1)

Summary of the Tartarus analysis method and processing scripts

Glossary of terms

Conference paper describing Tartarus (Version 1) pipeline

The ASCA mission


Miscellaneous Information on Tartarus

The Tartarus team

How to acknowledge use of Tartarus data

Disclaimer


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This file was last modified on Thursday, 03-May-2012 10:42:36 EDT

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