Mission: XTE.

XTE SOF

The XTE SOF is the real-time science operations branch of the XTE SOC. The SOF, located in the mission operations building at GSFC has facilities for supporting the monitoring, data collection, and quick-look analysis of XTE data. Facilities are available for guest observers who may wish to be present during their scheduled observations.

General Information.

• RXTE Current Status - information on RXTE Current Location and Current Observation

• RXTE Suitability of Target (SOT) - An efficiency calculator to help find the best GOODTIME interval

• RXTE Weekly Schedules - Formatted Weekly Schedules: short version of the Human Readable files

• Scorecards - information on how close we are to completing each proposal

• FITS packages of real-time standard mode data

• Mission Status

• XTE Significant Events including PCA ON/OFF status

• XTE TOO Observations News.

• XTE ASM Light Curve Generator

• Detailed Short Term Schedule ("Human-readable")

• Instrument team pages.
  • MIT ASM
    • ASM status.
  • UCSD HEXTE
  • GSFC PCA

• Operations.

  • Read Updates on XTE Science Operations with the Shift Report Viewer.
  • List of SOF responsibilities.
  • Current ASM Catalog

• Staff.

  • The SOF Duty Scientist and Experiment Monitor SOF shift schedule.
  • The XTE SOF staff biographical pages.
• XTE SOC.
• XTE GOF.

• IOC information.

  • XTE In-Orbit Check Out (IOC) News.
  • XTE In-Orbit Check Out (IOC) Schedule.
  • XTE First Results.