HEAO 1 A2 Raw Rates

The A2 experiment was flown on the HEAO-1 satellite, between August, 1977 until January 1979. The experiment consisted of six multi-layer multi-anode collimated gas proportional counters. These were two LEDs (Low Energy Detectors), a MED (Medium Energy Detector), and three HEDs (High Energy Detectors). The first 6-months of mission were dedicated to an all-sky scan after which a pointing phase started. This database accesses the raw rate data obtained from the A2 MED (small and large field of view, FOV) and HEDs (1,2 and 3 small and large filed of view) detectors during the scanning and pointed phase. Note: This database does not contain coordinates. Since the satellite was mostly scanning, the XRATE database, from which the FITS files are generated, was organized in time. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/nasa.heasarc/a2rtraw
Related Identifier https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/a2rtraw.html
Related Identifier https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_a2rtraw&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://nasa.heasarc/a2rtraw
Provenance
Creator HEASARC
Publisher NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Publication Year 2026
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy