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The Organization of the HEASARC Activities
The HEASARC Goddard activities are part of the Office of Guest
Investigator Programs, OGIP, within the Astrophysics Science Division
at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Placing the HEASARC
within a division that has an active role in providing instruments
for many high energy missions ensures that active scientists are
involved with expertise close at hand on the instrument
characteristics. The OGIP also administers the
GLAST Science Support
Center, the Swift Science
Support Center, and the Guest Observer
Facilities for
Integral,
RXTE,
Suzaku (Astro-E2), and
XMM-Netwon.
It is a misconception that these data centers are part of the
HEASARC. They are instead sister organizations that leverage off the
HEASARC core services. The objective of the OGIP is to provide
uniform and high quality support to the user community which it
serves.
The HEASARC provides the connecting thread between the various science
support facilities. Considerable cost savings have been gained by newer
missions using the OGIP FITS data standards, existing
software (e.g. HEAsoft) and
Web/archive services that the HEASARC
provides (e.g. Browse). The Suzaku,
Swift and RXTE missions
directly archive their data at the HEASARC, rather than create their
own separate mission specific archive. This also simplifies the final
transition of the archive to the HEASARC at the end of mission life.
Since 1999, the HEASARC has been a partnership between GSFC
and SAO. The SAO part of the HEASARC is in the High Energy
Astrophysics Division of the Center for Astrophysics, which also
contains the Chandra Science Center,
the Spectrum X-Gamma
Coordination Facility, and expertise in the
Einstein,
Uhuru, and
HEAO-1 missions.
External oversight is provided by the HEASARC Users Group, which
comprises a number of external scientists who meet annually to provide
feedback and advise the HEASARC director.
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