J/A+AS/130/233 WATCH Solar X-Ray Burst Catalogue (Crosby+ 1998)
The WATCH Solar X-Ray Burst Catalogue
Crosby N., Lund N., Vilmer N., Sunyaev R.
<Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 130, 233 (1998)>
=1998A&AS..130..233C 1998A&AS..130..233C (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Sun ; X-ray sources
Mission_Name: GRANAT
Keywords: catalogs - Sun: activity; flares; X-rays, gamma rays
Description:
Catalogue containing solar X-ray bursts measured by the Danish Wide
Angle Telescope for Cosmic Hard X-Rays (WATCH) experiment aboard the
Russian satellite GRANAT in the deca-keV energy range. Table 1 lists
the periods during which solar observations with WATCH are available
(WATCH ON-TIME) and where the bursts listed in the catalogue have been
observed.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table1.dat 40 205 On-time catalogue
catalog.dat 80 1551 WATCH solar X-ray burst catalogue
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 --- DN Dump number
5- 12 A8 "DD/MM/YY" StartDate Start date of dump
14- 15 I2 h Starth Start time of dump
17- 18 I2 min Startm Start time of dump
20- 21 I2 s Starts Start time of dump
23- 30 A8 "DD/MM/YY" EndDate End date of dump
32- 33 I2 h End.h End time of dump
35- 36 I2 min End.m End time of dump
38- 39 I2 s End.s End time of dump
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 --- DN dump number
5- 12 A8 "DD/MM/YY" Date Date when burst began
15- 20 I6 ct Pt Peak count rate in low-energy channel
(in ct/bin)
22- 26 F5.2 s Tacc Accumulation time of bin (in s/bin)
28- 29 I2 h Tpeak.h Peak time of burst
31- 32 I2 min Tpeak.m Peak time of burst
34- 35 I2 s Tpeak.s Peak time of burst
37- 38 I2 h Tstart.h ? Start time of burst
40- 41 I2 min Tstart.m ? Start time of burst
43- 44 I2 s Tstart.s ? Start time of burst
45 A1 --- n_Tstart.h [N] N: Missing information
46- 47 I2 h Tend.h ? End time of burst
49- 50 I2 min Tend.m ? End time of burst
52- 53 I2 s Tend.s ? End time of burst
54 A1 --- n_Tend.h [N] N: Missing information
55- 58 I4 ct B Background count rate (in ct/bin) (1)
60 A1 --- H [01n] Signal in high-energy channel (2)
62 A1 --- d [d0] Dead-time effect in low-energy (3)
64 A1 --- o [o0] Overflow effect in low-energy (4)
66- 70 A5 --- AR Active region association (5)
72- 75 A4 --- GOES GOES flare identification (6)
77 I1 --- halpha [0/1] Hα association (7)
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Note (1): Converted to the time accumulation of the bin.
Note (2): '1' for yes,
'0' for no,
'n' implies that some particle noise is observed in the high-energy
channel, but not at the peak time of the burst.
Note (3): 'd' for yes, '0' for no.
Note (4): 'o' for yes, '0' for no.
Note (5): '0' for no association.
Note (6): 'N' for none, 'ng' implies that no GOES data exists.
Note (7): '1' for yes, '0' for no.
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Acknowledgements: Norma CROSBY
References:
Crosby N., 1996, Ph.D. thesis, Paris VII University, France.
Crosby N., Vilmer N., Lund N., Sunyaev R., 1998A&A...334..299C 1998A&A...334..299C
Crosby N., Lund N., Vilmer N., Sunyaev R., 1998, A&AS, to be published.
Lund N., 1985 in Culhane J.L., X-Ray Instrumentation in Astronomy,
SPIE, 597, p.95.
(End) Patricia Bauer [CDS] 05-Jan-1998