The Multimission Archive at STScI (MAST) Newsletter disseminates
information to users of the HST, FUSE, IUE, Copernicus, EUVE, HUT,
UIT, WUPPE, IMAPS, BEFS and VLA-FIRST data archives supported by MAST.
Inquiries should be sent to archive@stsci.edu.
The HST abstract search features pointers to archived data and further
information from PRESTO. The FUSE abstract search contains only the
program ID and the abstract, but more information will be added in the
future. Online help is available.
Users may request the MXLO or MXHI data directly from the search
results page as a tar file. The user may request different options by
pushing the more options button. This page offers the user the
opportunity to select any of the NEWSIPS files or the original IUESIPS
files in both the GO format and in the RDAF format. All requests can
be made as a tar, tar.gz and zip file.
Requesters should remember that there maybe a slight delay while the
appropriate CD is loaded into the jukebox. If a large request is
issued, several CDs may be required, thus increasing the time needed to
fill the request. Users may find information found at
http://archive.stsci.edu/iue/mdr_help.html helpful.
Users may also retrieve the data via anonymous ftp. Users should be
cautioned that FTP access is currently restricted in the following
ways:
the user must already know the camera name, image sequence number,
and data type of the file(s) to be downloaded,
no files conversions are currently available via ftp, so returned
files are sent individually, in gzipped compressed mode.
In general, IUE data can be accessed from archive.stsci.edu via
anonymous ftp. The files are accessed via symbolic links which are
stored in subdirectories under /pub/iue/data, and which are structured
according to the camera name and image sequence numbers. A separate
directory exists for each camera (i.e., lwp,lwr,swp,swr) and below each
of these directories is a separate directory for each 1000 image
numbers. These directories are named according to the starting image
number in each group (i.e., 1000, 2000, 3000, ...). As an example, a
typical interactive ftp session to acquire files lwp21500.mxlo.gz and
lwp21500.silo.gz would be:
ftp archive.stsci.edu
anonymous
username@univ.edu
binary
cd /pub/iue/data/lwp/21000
get lwp21500.mxlo.gz
get lwp21500.silo.gz
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