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FIRAS_COADD_ZODI_MODEL_HIGH.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    = '24/09/97'           / 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 = 'COADD-ZM'           /  Coadd-based zodiacal light model              
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= 'HIGH    '           /  Field indicating combination of data from     
COMMENT                          / various channels and mirror transport        
COMMENT                          / mechanism scan modes.  HIGH is a combination 
COMMENT                          / of the high frequency RHSS, RHSF, RHLF, LHSS,
COMMENT                          / LHSF, and LHLF 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).                
MISS_SEG= 'ENTIRE_MISSION'     /  FIRAS segment of mission represented          
END                                                                             

Extension Header 2

XTENSION= 'BINTABLE'           / Extension type is Binary Table                 
BITPIX  =                    8 / Binary data                                    
NAXIS   =                    2 / Data are in a table                            
NAXIS1  =                  696 / Number of 8 bit bytes in each row              
NAXIS2  =               136794 / Number of rows                                 
PCOUNT  =                    0 / Number of bytes of data following table        
GCOUNT  =                    1 / Group count (always 1 for bintable extensions) 
TFIELDS =                    5 / Number of fields (columns) in the table        
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT    FIRAS Coadd Zodi Model                                               
COMMENT    Project Dataset Record Structure                                     
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT    FIRAS pixel number (resolution 6)                                    
TFORM1  = '1J      '           /                                                
TTYPE1  = 'PIXEL   '           /  entire fieldname = PIXEL                      
TUNIT1  = '        '           /                                                
COMMENT    Field indicating the channel and                                     
COMMENT       scan mode of the coadded sky                                      
COMMENT       interferogram corresponding to                                    
COMMENT       this zodi model spectrum;                                         
COMMENT       together with REC_NUM, establishes                                
COMMENT       a correspondence between the                                      
COMMENT       coadded sky interferograms (or                                    
COMMENT       calibrated sky spectra) and                                       
COMMENT       the zodi model spectra.                                           
TFORM2  = '4A      '           /                                                
TTYPE2  = 'CHANSCAN'           /  entire fieldname = CHANSCAN                   
TUNIT2  = '        '           /                                                
COMMENT    Field indicating the record number                                   
COMMENT       of the coadded sky interferogram                                  
COMMENT       corresponding to this zodi model                                  
COMMENT       spectrum; together with CHANSCAN,                                 
COMMENT       establishes a correspondence between                              
COMMENT       the coadded sky interferograms (or                                
COMMENT       calibrated sky spectra) and                                       
COMMENT       the zodi model spectra.                                           
TFORM3  = '1J      '           /                                                
TTYPE3  = 'REC_NUM '           /  entire fieldname = REC_NUM                    
TUNIT3  = '        '           /                                                
COMMENT    Pixel weight                                                         
TFORM4  = '1E      '           /                                                
TTYPE4  = 'WEIGHT  '           /  entire fieldname = WEIGHT                     
TUNIT4  = '        '           /                                                
COMMENT    Zodi model spectrum, in MJy/sr                                       
TFORM5  = '170E    '           /                                                
TDIM5   = '(170)   '           /                                                
TTYPE5  = 'ZODI_MOD'           /  entire fieldname = ZODI_MOD                   
TUNIT5  = 'MJy/sr  '           /                                                
COMMENT                                                                         
END                                                                             

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