NSSDCA ID: SOUV-00013
Availability: At NSSDC, Ready for Offline Distribution (or Staging if Digital)
These experimenter-supplied data reduction programs are on ASCII magnetic tape created on a PDP 11/34 computer. The programs are contained on 67 data files. The first record of each file is a seven-word header containing Radix-50 title information for internal PDP use. The most useful program is SOL, an interactive data processing language developed specifically for OSO 8 data analysis. The language is statement oriented and is designed to handle scalars, vectors, line profiles, and matrices of both integer and floating point modes. The interactive nature of the language allows single statement execution as well as stored program execution. The stored programs include RDCAT.FTN, which is used to read the sorted catalog tape (-01H) and make a list of files whose parameters satisfy the input criteria; SORTFD.FTN, which separates the data tape's experiment types into categories; LOCAT.PRO, which allows the user to input the name of an experiment and find the pointing coordinates of that experiment on a particular hydrogen-alpha picture; SOLI.FTN, which is a collection of Fortran routines to read and write SOL-formatted data files; BLKSET.MAC, which is a routine to open a block access file; GFTI.FTN, a collection of subroutines that use a Newton-Raphson technique to fit a Gaussian to the input data; and MASSAGE, which is a data processing routine designed to smooth spectrum scans and correct for distortion of the line profiles. For more information on this data set, contact Dr. Charles Barth, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Campus Box 392, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309.
Questions and comments about this data collection can be directed to: Coordinated Request and User Support Office
Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Dr. Charles A. Barth | General Contact | University of Colorado | charles.barth@colorado.edu |