1. The HETE-2 Archive Mike Corcoran HEASARC User Group Feb 14, 2003 HETE-2: A small satellite designed to detect and localize gamma- ray bursts Instruments:  FREGATE (6-400 keV)  Wide-field X-ray Monitor (WXM) (2-25 keV), localization accuracy to ~10 arc-minutes or better.  The soft X-ray camera (SXC) (0.5-10 keV) localization accuracy to 30 arc- seconds or better. Launched: Oct 9 2000 Operations: MIT/CSR Archive: HEASARC

2. The HETE-2 Archive Mike Corcoran HEASARC User Group Feb 14, 2003 HETE-2 Highlights 25 confirmed GRBs; optical transient (D. Fox, Caltech); “Dark Burst” Uptime of groundstations improved Attitude control system change to point away from bright contaminating sources (Sco X-1, Galactic Center, moon) New flight algorithms for SXC implemented to compensate for loss of optical blocking filters, increase SXC ontime Senior Review: fund HETE-2 til launch of Swift, then terminate

3. The HETE-2 Archive Mike Corcoran HEASARC User Group Feb 14, 2003 The HETE-2 Archive at the HEASARC: Opened: February, 2002 Contents: data delivered in IPP (inter-process protocol) format (non-FITS!). Available data consists of:  high, medium, and low downlink data  status messages Data Volume: Total volume in archive: 105 Gbytes

4. The HETE-2 Archive Mike Corcoran HEASARC User Group Feb 14, 2003 HETE-2 website: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/hete2/ http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/hete2/ Mission description & links to MIT website Data ftp/http access and retrieval Data descriptions HETE-2 Science results HETE-2 tables HETEGCN: lists each HETE-2 trigger and “best” position HETE-2 helpdesk (3 contacts)

5. The HETE-2 Archive Mike Corcoran HEASARC User Group Feb 14, 2003 Last HUG meeting: (17) HUG: There is an urgent need to get the HETE-2 data in documented FITS formats Current Status: We now have scripts available to split out science instrument data (still in IPP format) We have generated standard FITS 4 color lightcurves for GRBs (All public GRB datasets) Also data in ASCII, and postscript plots (GRB lightcurves, housekeeping, etc) Some documentation on data products

6. The HETE-2 Archive Mike Corcoran HEASARC User Group Feb 14, 2003 Under Development: Develop HETE-2 “as flown” timeline table User software & documentation HETE archive access via BROWSE FITS Data products for WXM and SXC