Jonathan McDowell's ASC/SDS documents

ASC/CXC Series Documents by number

(this series currently maintained by Arnold Rots)

• ASC-FITS-2.0.1: ASC FITS File Designers' Guide (Rots and McDowell)(1999 Jun)
• ASC-FITS-REGION-1.0: FITS region document (McDowell and Rots) (1998 Mar)
• ASC-FITS-FUNCTION-1.2: FITS Function document (Rots and McDowell) (2000 Aug)

New Series Documents by number

• CXC-JCM-001 Coordinate Systems Paper 1
• CXC-JCM-002 Coordinate Systems Paper 2
• CXC-JCM-003 Coordinate Systems Paper 3
• CXC-JCM-004 CC Mode Coordinates

Data Model Series Documents by number

• CXC-DM-001 Introduction: Data Analysis with the Chandra Data Model(2001 Oct)
• CXC-DM-002 Data Model Abstract Design(2001 Oct)
• CXC-DM-003 Data Model Library Architecture (proposed)(2001 Oct)
• CXC-DM-004 Virtual File Design(2001 Oct)
• CXC-DM-005 FITS Kernel Design(2001 Oct)
• CXC-DM-006 IRAF Kernel Design(2001 Oct)
• CXC-DM-007 ASCII Kernel Design(2001 Oct)
• CXC-DM-008 C Programmers' Guide
• CXC-DM-009 C Programmers' Reference
• CXC-DM-010 DM Manual 1: User Introduction(2001 Oct)
• CXC-DM-011 DM Manual 2: Toolkit User Guide(2001 Oct)
• CXC-DM-012 DM Manual 3: User Reference(2001 Oct)
• CXC-DM-013 Fortran Programmer's Reference (to be added)
• CXC-DM-014 Fortran Wrapper Design (to be added)

Old Series Documents by number

• 1998 Feb 26:SDS-1.0: Data Product List: obsolete
• 1996 Apr 26:SDS-2.0: Coordinate Systems (Rev 3.0)
• 1997 Dec 21:SDS-2.0: Coordinate Systems (Rev 4.2)
• 1998 Aug 4:SDS-2.0: Coordinate Systems (Rev 4.3)
• 1999 Feb 10:SDS-2.0: Coordinate Systems (Rev 4.4)
• 1999 Apr 5:SDS-2.0: Coordinate Systems (Rev 5.0): alt version
• 1999 Nov 18:SDS-2.0: Coordinate Systems (Rev 5.0): superseded by CXC-JCM-001
• 1998 Feb 26:SDS-3.0: ASC Data Model Abstract Design: replaced by CXC-DM-002
• 1998 Feb 26:SDS-4.0: ASC Data Model Subroutine Library: replaced by CXC-DM-008/009
• 1998 Mar 30:SDS-4.1: ASC Data Model Subroutine Library: replaced by CXC-DM-008/009
• 1998 Mar 16:SDS-5.0 (ASC-FITS-1.0) ASC FITS conventions: replaced by ASC-FITS-2.0.1
• 1998 Feb 26:SDS-6.0: Data Model Filtering Syntax (precursor to CXC-DM-012)
• 1999 Jan 11:SDS-7.1: FITS conventions for the Data Model
• 1997 Oct 01:SDS-8.0: Data Product Sizing (obsolete;moved to memos)
• 1998 Apr 02:SDS-9.0 Rev 2: FITS names for ASC Coords (memo)
• 1998 Mar 09:SDS-10.0: (ASC-FITS-REGION-1.0) FITS region document: see ASC-FITS-REGION-1.0
• 1998 Feb 09:SDS-11.0: FITS function document (superseded by ASC-FITS-FUNCTION-1.2)
• 1998 Mar 29:SDS-11.1: FITS function document, modified draft (superseded by ASC-FITS-FUNCTION-1.2)
• 1998 Mar 29:SDS-12.0: Coordinate system design for data model
• 1998 Apr 02:SDS-13.0: Observation index files (memo)
• 1998 Oct 07:SDS-14.0: Aspect offsets ICD
• 1998 Oct 06:SDS-15.0: Header merging rules (memo)