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The Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA) was launched on 20 February 1993, ceased observing on 14 July 2000, and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on 2 March 2001. 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. 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)

Tartarus V3: The Primary Site at Imperial College, London

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

Tartarus (Version 2)

The Tartarus team

How to acknowledge use of Tartarus data

Disclaimer



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Last Updated: Thursday, 10-Nov-2005 18:20:01 EST