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FIRAS_TEMPERATURE_MAP_LOWF.FITS

Primary Header

SIMPLE  =                    T / file does conform to FITS standard             
BITPIX  =                   32 / number of bits per data pixel                  
NAXIS   =                    0 / number of data axes                            
EXTEND  =                    T / FITS dataset may contain extensions            
COMMENT   FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format defined in Astronomy and
COMMENT   Astrophysics Supplement Series v44/p363, v44/p371, v73/p359, v73/p365.
COMMENT   Contact the NASA Science Office of Standards and Technology for the   
COMMENT   FITS Definition document #100 and other FITS information.             
DATE    = '28/09/97'           / FITS file creation date (dd/mm/yy)             
ORIGIN  = 'CDAC    '           /  Cosmology Data Analysis Center                
TELESCOP= 'COBE    '           /  COsmic Background Explorer satellite          
INSTRUME= 'FIRAS   '           /  COBE instrument [DIRBE, DMR, FIRAS]           
OBJECT  = 'ALL-SKY '           /  part of sky given [ALL-SKY, GAL-SLICE]        
PRODUCT = 'TEMP-MAP'           /  CMBR temperature map                          
EQUINOX =               2000.0 /  equinox of coords in following tables         
COMMENT                                                                         
REFERENC= 'For additional information, please refer to the' /                   
REFERENC= 'COBE Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS)' /              
REFERENC= 'Explanatory Supplement, ed. J.C. Mather et al,' /                    
REFERENC= 'COBE Ref. Pub. No. 97-C (Greenbelt, MD: NASA/GSFC),' /               
REFERENC= 'available in electronic form from the NSSDC.' /                      
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT     COBE specific keywords                                              
DATE-BEG= '24/11/89'           /  date of initial data represented (dd/mm/yy)   
DATE-END= '21/09/90'           /  date of final data represented (dd/mm/yy)     
PIXRESOL=                    6 /  Quad tree pixel resolution [6, 9]             
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT     FIRAS specific keywords                                             
CHANSCAN= 'LOWF    '           /  Field indicating combination of data from     
COMMENT                          / various channels and mirror transport        
COMMENT                          / mechanism scan modes.  LOWF is a combination 
COMMENT                          / of the low frequency RLSS, RLFS, RLFL, LLSS, 
COMMENT                          / LLFS, and LLFL data.  For the uncombined     
COMMENT                          / channel/scan mode labels, the first two      
COMMENT                          / characters of the label indicate the channel,
COMMENT                          / the first being the instrument side:         
COMMENT                          / right (R) or left (L); and the second being  
COMMENT                          / the frequency:  high (H) or low (L).  The    
COMMENT                          / third and fourth characters indicate the scan
COMMENT                          / mode, the third being the scan length:  short
COMMENT                          / (S) or long (L); and the fourth being the sca
COMMENT   n                                                                     
COMMENT                          / speed:  slow (S) or fast (F).  In addition,  
COMMENT                          / the scan mode may take the following values  
COMMENT                          / for low frequency data only (channel = RL or 
COMMENT                          / LL):                                         
COMMENT                          /      FS: decimated SF data;                  
COMMENT                          /      FL: truncated LF data.                  
MODLLABL= 'PASS4   '           /  FIRAS calibration model solution label        
MISS_SEG= 'ENTIRE_MISSION'     /  FIRAS segment of mission represented          
GALATEXC=                   15 /  Absolute value of galactic latitude in degrees
COMMENT                          / below which input data was excluded in the   
COMMENT                          / dipole fit                                   
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT     Results of CMBR temperature and dipole fit to temperature map:      
COMMENT                                                                         
CBR_TEMP=             2.727754 /  CMBR temperature, in K                        
CBR_SIG =                0.002 /  CMBR temperature sigma, in mK                 
DIP_AMP =               3.3506 /  Dipole amplitude, in mK                       
DIP_SIG =                0.006 /  Dipole amplitude sigma, in mK                 
DIP_LON =               264.98 /  Dipole galactic longitude, in deg             
DIP_LAT =                47.92 /  Dipole galactic latitude, in deg              
DIR_SIG =                 0.09 /  Dipole direction sigma, in deg                
RMS_TEMP=                0.214 /  RMS temperature residual, in mK               
END                                                                             

Extension Header 2

XTENSION= 'BINTABLE'           / Extension type is Binary Table                 
BITPIX  =                    8 / Binary data                                    
NAXIS   =                    2 / Data are in a table                            
NAXIS1  =                   28 / Number of 8 bit bytes in each row              
NAXIS2  =                 6067 / Number of rows                                 
PCOUNT  =                    0 / Number of bytes of data following table        
GCOUNT  =                    1 / Group count (always 1 for bintable extensions) 
TFIELDS =                    7 / Number of fields (columns) in the table        
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT    FIRAS CMBR Temperature Map                                           
COMMENT    Project Dataset Record Structure                                     
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT    FIRAS pixel number (resolution 6)                                    
TFORM1  = '1J      '           /                                                
TTYPE1  = 'PIXEL   '           /  entire fieldname = PIXEL                      
TUNIT1  = '        '           /                                                
COMMENT    Galactic longitude, in deg (0 -> 360)                                
TFORM2  = '1E      '           /                                                
TTYPE2  = 'GAL_LON '           /  entire fieldname = GAL_LON                    
TUNIT2  = 'deg     '           /                                                
COMMENT    Galactic latitude, in deg (-90 -> +90)                               
TFORM3  = '1E      '           /                                                
TTYPE3  = 'GAL_LAT '           /  entire fieldname = GAL_LAT                    
TUNIT3  = 'deg     '           /                                                
COMMENT    Pixel weight                                                         
TFORM4  = '1E      '           /                                                
TTYPE4  = 'WEIGHT  '           /  entire fieldname = WEIGHT                     
TUNIT4  = '        '           /                                                
COMMENT    CMBR temperature in pixel, in K                                      
TFORM5  = '1E      '           /                                                
TTYPE5  = 'TEMP    '           /  entire fieldname = TEMP                       
TUNIT5  = 'K       '           /                                                
COMMENT    Sigma of CMBR temperature in pixel, in K                             
TFORM6  = '1E      '           /                                                
TTYPE6  = 'TEMP_SIG'           /  entire fieldname = TEMP_SIGMA                 
TUNIT6  = 'K       '           /                                                
COMMENT    CMBR temperature residual in pixel, in K                             
TFORM7  = '1E      '           /                                                
TTYPE7  = 'RESID_TE'           /  entire fieldname = RESID_TEMP                 
TUNIT7  = 'K       '           /                                                
COMMENT                                                                         
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