Serving Data to the Fermi User Community
Abstract
The Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC) provides the scientific community with access to public Fermi data. Through its website the FSSC provides planning and scheduling products, such as long and short term observing timelines, spacecraft position and attitude histories, and exposure maps. For scientific data from the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM), the FSSC website links to NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center's (HEASARC) Browse interface, which provides a searchable interface to the GBM burst, trigger, and daily data archives. For example, all the GBM data products for bursts matching a given criteria can be packaged together and downloaded through Browse. The photon and event data produced by the Large Area Telescope (LAT), Fermi's primary instrument, will be distributed through a custom FSSC interface. Users will be able to request all photons detected from a region on the sky over a specified time and energy range. We present an overview of the different data products provided by the FSSC and how they can be accessed.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #213
- Pub Date:
- January 2009
- Bibcode:
- 2009AAS...21346806H