List of EGRET survey targets:
Column 01: Arbitrary source index number (SNO)
Column 02: Source catalog (3EG)
Column 03: EGRET source name from catalog
Column 04: Target name in survey
Column 05: J2000 right ascension (deg.)
Column 06: J2000 declination (deg.)
Column 07: Galactic longitude (deg.)
Column 08: Galactic latitude (deg.)
Column 09: Maximum expected DM from NE2001 DM-distance model (pc cm-3)
File listings of EGRET survey observations:
Column 01: Source name (EGRET source)
Column 02: Filename (.pkmb) of pointing for DVD archive
Column 03: Tape name of original DLT
Column 04: File number on original DLT tape
Column 05: Galactic longitude of center beam (deg.)
Column 06: Galactic latitude of center beam (deg.)
Column 07: Mean Julian Date
Column 08: Gregorian date (yymmdd_hhmmss)
Column 09: Number of blocks in file
Column 10: Sample time (ms)
Column 11: Freq of top channel in band (MHz)
Column 12: Channel width (MHz), it's negative!
Column 13: Number of beams recorded in observation
Column 14: Integration time of observation (s)
Column 15: Notes
Note: the following pointing was not observed in the survey: G1638d.
Note: the following pointings were observed twice in the survey: G0439Ad,
G1314b, G1457d, G1638c, G1652b,
G1726a, G1726b, G1726c, G1726d.
Column 01: Filename (.pkmb) of beam
Column 02: J2000 right ascension (hh:mm:ss)
Column 03: J2000 declination (dd:mm:ss)
Column 04: Galactic longitude (deg.)
Column 05: Galactic latitude (deg.)
Note: as of August 1, 2003 this file lists all 3016 beams observed in the survey (100% of total).
DM trial listing for EGRET survey observations:
Column 01: DM index of trial (integer)
Column 02: DM value of trial (pc cm^-3)
Raw data DVD archive:
Each DVD contains a single survey pointing (in the form of 13 separate beam files) and a README file. The size of each beam file is typically 4102 blocks * 49792 bytes per block = 204246784 bytes (194.8 MB) per beam.
An example README file looks like this:
Parkes P406 EGRET Pulsar Survey Raw Data DVD Archive Author: Fronefield Crawford (crawford@alum.mit.edu) see http://cs.haverford.edu/pulsar for more information Pointing Name: EGU010_2 Entry in pmobs.db: @# P406 G1649beg 3.289 17.699 o EGU010 003 52469.427 egunid 40 020714_101440 4102 0.125000 1516.500 -3.000 13 2100 Beam Positions: FILE RAJ DECJ l b EGU010_2_01.pkmb 16:49:54.65 -16:18:11.44 3.289 17.699 EGU010_2_02.pkmb 16:48:49.77 -16:42:46.31 2.781 17.664 EGU010_2_03.pkmb 16:47:53.53 -16:16:59.92 3.004 18.101 EGU010_2_04.pkmb 16:48:58.38 -15:52:26.13 3.512 18.135 EGU010_2_05.pkmb 16:50:59.25 -15:53:35.37 3.797 17.732 EGU010_2_06.pkmb 16:51:55.78 -16:19:18.68 3.573 17.297 EGU010_2_07.pkmb 16:50:51.16 -16:43:55.84 3.067 17.263 EGU010_2_08.pkmb 16:49:46.20 -17:08:54.09 2.555 17.224 EGU010_2_09.pkmb 16:46:47.03 -16:41:42.73 2.489 18.068 EGU010_2_10.pkmb 16:46:56.23 -15:51:00.64 3.226 18.543 EGU010_2_11.pkmb 16:50:03.02 -15:27:28.80 4.027 18.171 EGU010_2_12.pkmb 16:53:01.50 -15:54:29.87 4.086 17.327 EGU010_2_13.pkmb 16:52:53.88 -16:45:12.87 3.351 16.855 Legend: EGUXXX_Y_ZZ.pkmb XXX = tape number Y = file number (NOT necessarily the same as the original file on DLT tape) ZZ = beam number Notes: This pointing has already been split into 13 separate beams (files) using Scott Ransom's split_parkes_beams program.