Continuous IBDB Burst Data in ASCII Format
Sixteen-channel background-subtracted data and the associated background fits for continuous (CONT) burst data are available in ASCII format. Download data for burst triggers 105 through 3193 via anonymous ftp. The CONT data type has 2.048-second resolution.
Each file contains a header and data as follows:
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0th row -->; burst number
1st row -->; trigger time (in second of day), and TJD
2nd row -->; burst RA, and DEC
3rd row -->; triggered detectors in order [76543210] ( 1 -->; Y, 0 -->; N)
4th row -->; # of bins, and # of energy channels
5th row -->; degree of polynomial of background fit
6th row -->; time of first bin (in seconds) relative to trigger time, and TJD
7th row -->; detector #, and background-subtracted data for 16 channels
8th row -->; detector # (same as previous row), and fitted background for 16 channels
9th row -->; next detector #, and background-subtracted data for 16 channels
10th row -->; detector # (same as previous row), and fitted background for 16 channels
and etc... for the other detectors (the data format used here is i2,16f15.6)
this is followed by the data for additional time steps, separated by 2.048 seconds
Here is an example of the header of and part of the data in a continuous IBDB ASCII data file:
continuous_ibdb_999.fits
999
54283.749 8564.62828
213.100 35.800
00001100
234 16
2
-118.656 8564.62691
1 -19.142456 -33.343140 20.203247 -27.746460 27.351563 35.641724 4.540100 30.530029 -16.797729 5.985168 12.022278 1.095154 -8.887253 -10.282814 -7.431221 -1.854004
1 345.142456 1216.343140 1286.796753 1467.746460 1308.648437 995.358276 599.459900 572.469971 513.797729 317.014832 205.977722 191.904846 87.887253 116.282814 108.431221 298.854004
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