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I Reserved Extension Type Names

  (This Appendix is not part of the NOST FITS Standard, but  is included for  informational  purposes. It describes the extension type names registered as of the date this standard was issued.) A current list is available from the FITS Support Office at
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/xtension.html
or
ftp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/fits/xtension.lis

 

    
Table I.1: Reserved Extension Type Names
Type Name Status Reference Sponsor Comments
'A3DTABLE' L [17] NRAO Prototype binary table design used in AIPS; subset of BINTABLE
 
'BINTABLE' S [10] IAU Binary table extension. Available at FITS Archives in files  /documents/standards/bintable.aa* of 1995-Feb-06. Note: only main document, excluding appendixes.
 
'COMPRESS' R none GSFC
A/WWW
Suggested extension name A. Warnock. Preliminary proposal in FITS archives in the files compress.*.   by
 
'DUMP' R none none Suggested extension name for binary dumps. No full proposal submitted.
 
'FILEMARK' R none NRAO Suggested for equivalent of tape mark on other media. No full proposal submitted.
 
'IMAGE' S [9] IAU Image extension.
 
'IUEIMAGE' L [18] IUE Local extension originally defined for archiving special IUE data products, Identical to IMAGE.
 
'TABLE' S [5] IAU ASCII  table extension.
 
'VGROUP' R none GSFC Suggested extension name for HDF Vgroups (D. Jennings) No formal proposal; not used in current HDF-FITS conversion proposals


 
Table I.2: Status Codes
   
Code Significance
D Draft extension proposal for discussion by regional FITS committees.
L Local FITS extension.
P Proposed FITS extension approved by regional FITS committees
  but not by IAU FITS Working Group.
R Reserved type name for which a full draft proposal has not been submitted.
S Standard extension approved by IAU FITS Working Group and
  endorsed by the IAU.
   



 
Table I.3: Acronyms in List of Registered Extensions
Acronym Meaning
NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory
AIPS Astronomical Image Processing System
A/WWW A/WWW Enterprises
HDF Hierarchical Data Format


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