4. SAX Final Observation Tapes
Final Observation Tapes (FOTs, the name being mutuated from the
EXOSAT mission)
are the way by which
SAX
observation data are made available to observers by
SAX-SDC.
The layout of FOT tapes
is described elsewhere.
The first step of SAX data reduction (and the only one truly mission-dependent) is the
filing of tape data to disk. This is done
After this one will find the requested subset of the following
telemetry files
on disk.