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Arecibo-Specific FITS Specification

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The header information below is Arecibo-specific.

Arecibo-Specific Binary Header
Keyword Value Description Comments
NMATRIX integer ? required by sdfits
STIME real [ns] correlator sampling interval
STARTON 0, 1, 10 Start on 0,1 or 10 sec tick
TTYPE CRVAL5 hours since midnight from obsdate [8A]
TTYPE JD julian day number at exposure start
TTYPE OFF_TIME seconds from midnight ast
TTYPE RATE_RA rate of change of ra in deg/s [1D]
TTYPE RATE_DEC rate of change of dec in deg/s [1D]
TTYPE RATE_CS coordinate system of rates [8A]
TTYPE RATE_DUR how long rate has been applied in s [1D]
TTYPE RATE_TIME from midnight ast in s [1D]
TTYPE CUR_TOL computed great circle tolerance in s [1D]
TTYPE REQ_TOL requested tolerance in s [1D]
TTYPE RAJ RAJ2000 back computed from az,za in deg [1D]
TTYPE DECJ dec J2000 back computed from az,za in deg [1D]
TTYPE ENC_TIME time when enc_az and enc_za measured [1J]
TTYPE PLAT_POWER power from platform meter [1D]
TTYPE CNTRL_POWER power from control room meter [1D]
TTYPE TOT_POWER scaled power in zero-lag [1D]
TTYPE SYN1 platform synthesizer in Hz [1D]
TTYPE SYNFREQ control room synthesizer in Hz [4D]
TTYPE52 NIFS number of ifs in this observation [1B]
TTYPE53 IFVAL which polarization, 0-1 or 0-3 for stokes [1B]
TTYPE54 ATTN_COR correlator attenuator 0-15 [1B]
TTYPE55 FLIP true is spectrum flipped [1B]
TTYPE56 WAPPNO WAPP number 0-3 or 0-7 for ALFA [1B]
TTYPE57 MASTER 0 greg 1 carriage house [1B]
TTYPE58 ONSOURCE if onsource at enc_time [1B]
TTYPE59 BLANKING Blanking turned on [1B]
TTYPE60 LBWHYB LbandWide hybrid is in (for circular pol) [1B]
TTYPE61 SHCL true if receiver shutter closed [1B]
TTYPE62 SBSHCL true if sband receiver sutter closed [1B]
TTYPE63 RFNUM platform position of the receiver selector [1B]
TTYPE64 ZMNORMAL platform transfer sweitch to reverse channels [1B]
TTYPE65 RFATTN platform attenuator position [2B]
TTYPE66 IFNUM platform if selector, 1/300 2/750 3/1500 [1B]
TTYPE67 IFATTN platform IF attenuator positions [2B]
TTYPE68 FIBER true if platform fiber is chosen [1B]
TTYPE69 AC2SW platform ac poiwer to various instruments [1B]
TTYPE70 PHBSIG platrorm converter combiner signal phase adjust [1B]
TTYPE71 HYBRID platform converter combiner hybrid [1B]
TTYPE72 PHBLO platform convert combiner lo phase adjust [1B]
TTYPE73 XFNORMAL control room transfer switch true=deflt [1B]
TTYPE74 NOISE control room noise on [1B]
TTYPE75 GAIN gain of control room amps [2B]
TTYPE76 INPFRQ control room input distributor position [1B]
TTYPE77 MIXER control room mixer source switeches [4B]
TTYPE78 VLBAINP control room vlba input switch posiion [1B]
TTYPE79 AMPINP control room amplifier input source switches [4B]
TTYPE80 EXTINP control room external input selector switches [4B]
TTYPE81 SUNDEST control room synthesizer destinations [4B]
TTYPE82 CALSRC control room cal source bit [1B]
TTYPE83 VIS30MHZ control room greg 1 ch 0 [1B]
TTYPE84 PWRMET control room power meter input switch [1B]
TTYPE85 BLANK430 control room 430 blanking on [1B]
TTYPE86 FILL fill [7B]
THEAP byte off to strt of heap from btable strt

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