ROSAT Archive Browser: News History

Jakob Englhauser

2001-01-16: 190 GSFC data sets have been added.
2000-12-18: ALL MPE data sets are now public (the last 66 data sets have been released)
2000-08-29: 141 new public data sets (up to public date 2000-Jul-31 (MPE) / 1999-Dec-31 (GSFC))
2000-08-08: ROSAT Archive pages were moved from www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de to www.xray.mpe.mpg.de
2000-06-30: Revised version of the ROSAT Sequence Browser is available (including new features)
2000-06-28: Revised version of the ROSAT Source Browser is available (including new features)
2000-05-24: ROSPSPC / 2RXP Catalogue Released!
2000-05-23: RASS Faint Source Catalogue Released!
2000-05-22: X-ray color images are now available for all public ROSAT observations; use the 'b' link in the lists provided by the ROSAT Sequence Browser
2000-04-06: Roughly 600 previously missing proposal abstracts have been added
2000-03-11: ROSAT All-Sky Survey Data released!
2000-03-10: Try the ROSAT Data Browser!
2000-02-22: New public data sets (up to public date 2000-Feb-22 (MPE) / 1999-Nov-30 (GSFC))
991215: For experts: A complete Status History of ROSAT Subsystems is now available
(the essence of 1 billion telemetry frames ...)
990817: Links to RRA data products are now available; try the '2', '5', and 'r' links in the sequence lists.
990722: Significant update of the ROSAT Source Browser.
991012: New public data sets (up to public date 1999-Aug-31 (MPE) / 1999-May-31 (GSFC))
990616: New public data sets (up to public date 1999-May-31 (MPE) / 1999-Mar-31 (GSFC))
990610: ALL scientific data from the ROSAT mission (from the period July to September 1998) have now been processed at MPE, and are ready for shipping.
990430: Last ROSAT Attitude Dump Page (for 1998-Dec-18) arrived at MPE
990414: Help on ROR categories
990317: New ROSAT Start Page (jer)
990223: Information on sequences which were proposed or scheduled but never observed has been removed from the archive browser.
990212, 09:18:52 UT: ROSAT has been switched off (for the very last time).
990118: Information on ROSAT Final Observations in February 1999 (restricted access)
981125: Information on ROSAT Final PSPC Observations (restricted access)
981002: CD ROM "ROSAT X-ray Images, Vol.8" has been included into the Archive Browser
980831: The timeline for ROSAT Mission Phase 27 (up to 1998-Dec-21) is available.
980709: Sequences for which processing is pending: has become obsolete!
980626: ROSAT has been recovered from safemode on 1998-Jun-26;
a new operation mode is currently being tested.
980605: The First ROSAT High Resolution Imager Source Catalog (ROSHRICAT) has been announced.
980610: All sequences of Mission Phase 25 (up to 1998-06-15) have been closed.
980529: The timeline for ROSAT Mission Phase 26 (up to 1998-Aug-10) has been generated
980425: ROSAT is in safemode since 1998-Apr-25
980311: Delay in data processing due to software problems (at GSOC)
980218-980222: PSPC observations (cf ROSAT News 58)
980121: HRI high voltage reduced for 1 day.
980120: Spacecraft clock reset on 1998-Jan-20.
980114: Battery reconditioning III successfully performed during period 1998-Jan-14 to 1998-Jan-17.
971217: 77 MPE processed sequences (WG/UK: 73/4) were released to the public archive for December 1997.
971215: Transition to mission phase 25; all open sequences were closed and will be shipped to the PIs as soon as the corresponding data have been processed.
971209: 35 MPE processed sequences were released to the public archive for November 1997.
971208: New Setting of the HRI High Voltage
971201: 244 MPE processed sequences (135/54/55 WG/UK/CA) were released to the public archive for October 1997.
971201: 158 GSFC processed sequences were released to the public archive for September 1997.
971127: DHS CPU Crash
971126: The Timeline for Mission Phase 25 (up to 1998-Jun-15) is ready and has been included into the Archive Browser.
971118: CD ROM "ROSAT X-ray Images, Vol.7" is available (346 new gif images)
971111: Battery Reconditioning II in the period 971111 to 971114
971103: STC failure
971027: FI Safemode
971007: The complete list of approved AO 8 targets is now available.
971001: 195 obsolete / duplicate sequences have been removed from the ROSAT data archive.
970930: 57 MPE processed sequences released to the public archive for September 1997.
970929: Many proposal titles and abstracts are now available via links in the sequence lists
(due to a bug the abstracts were not available from Oct 20 to Oct 27, 1997)
970920: Safe mode due to sun cone violation
970903: The meaning of column 'obstim' in the sequence lists has changed (see updates)!
970903: Graphical representations for mission timelines covering the years 1991 to 1996 were added.
970901: No problems with ROSAT during solar eclipse on 1997-09-01.
970730: ROSAT Sequences by Multiple Search Cones
970616: Transition to mission phase 24.
970603: ROSAT Battery Reconditioning (from 970530 to 970603)
970527: Some information on the Submission of ROSAT AO-8 proposals
970514: The Timeline for Mission Phase 24 (up to 15-Dec-1997) is available.
(URL ftp://ftp.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/timeline/ao7_hri4.timeline.gz)
970303: Transition from mission phase 22 to mission phase 23.
970302: Detector change from PSPC to HRI has been performed successfully; observation of regular AO-7 targets has been resumed.
970219: The Timeline for Mission Phase 23 (up to 16-Jun-1997) is available.
(URL ftp://ftp.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/timeline/ao7_hri3.timeline.gz)
970203: Detector change from HRI to PSPC has been performed successfully
970127: The Timeline for Mission Phase 22 (up to 03-Mar-1997) is available.
(URL ftp://ftp.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/timeline/ao7_hri2.timeline.gz)
970120: Transition from mission phase 21 to mission phase 22.
970117: Spacecraft clock reset
961021: Transition to AO 7 / LTL 21 observations. All observations of AO 6 have been closed.
961009: The mission time line for the first part of AO 7 (up to 20-Jan-1997) has been included.
(URL ftp://ftp.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/timeline/ao7_hri1.timeline.gz)
960729: The complete list of approved AO 7 targets is now available.
960627: CD ROM "ROSAT X-ray Images, Vol.6" now available (414 new gif images)
960619: The ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue
960617: The Soft X-ray Diffuse Background from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey
960404: X-rays from Comets