IUE Project Electronic Newsletter
NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Vol. 5, No. 9a - September 1997
Corrupted IUE Data Now Replaced
All IUE data archived between June 8 and July 27, 1997, some portion of
which was corrupted during the archival process, have been restored from
good copies of the data. (Exceptions to this are the Vector Displacement
files, which are not going to be replaced.) In the process, the
sensitivity degradation was correctly applied for the LWP high dispersion
extracted files that were archived during that time. The sensitivity
degradation will be corrected for remaining LWP and LWR high dispersion
extracted files and rearchived during the next 2 weeks.
Preliminary tests on files read from NDADS between June 8 and July 27,
1997, but which were not archived during that time, have found NO corrupted
data. These preliminary tests suggest that data retrieved from NDADS
during that window were not corrupted during the read process.
If you have any question concerning this problem please feel free to
contact met at levay@ndads.gsfc.nasa.gov.
- Karen Levay
IUE Image Processing News
Status of NEWSIPS Processing
Out of a total of over 71,000 NASA images, we have only about 1500 more to
process to complete the IUE Final Archive. These images will be processed
and archived over the next two weeks.
VILSPA is continuing
to process their images. Their projected completion date is in early
1998. We are placing the VILSPA processed images into the NDADS archive
as they are received.
No More Priority Processing
Since we have nearly completed the archive, it doesn't make sense to
continue to handle priority processing requests from users. All the
remaining images are high priority! As a result, we will no longer accept
NEWSIPS priority processing requests and reports as of September 29, 1997.
Questions?
If you have questions about the status of particular NASA images or
anything else related to the IUE Final Archive, please contact Cathy
Imhoff. The IUEGTC computer will be shut down in the next couple of
weeks, so please address email to Cathy at imhoff@iue.gsfc.nasa.gov. We
expect to have new email addresses at STScI in the near future.
- Cathy Imhoff
The IUE Electronic Newsletter, edited by James Caplinger, is primarily intended
to inform the numerous remote and local users of the IUEDAC software of recent software
updates, as well as let them know about news relating to the IUE project
in general. If you want your name to be added to, deleted from, or
changed on our distribution list, please send us e-mail to
news@iuedac.gsfc.nasa.gov
or send a postcard to:
IUE Data Analysis Center (IUEDAC)
Code 686.9, NASA-GSFC
Greenbelt, MD 20771
*
IUE Data Analysis Center *
IUE Project *
Webmaster
Mr. James R. Caplinger, Computer
Sciences Corporation
Responsible NASA Organization/Official
Dr. Don West, IUE Operations Scientist