FITS Skimmer

The Fits skimmer allows you to select a subset of data from LAT FT1 files.

See: Comparison: Merit Skimmer, Fits Skimmer, and Astro Server.

Cuts you can make:

The FITS Skimmer allows "fcopy rowfilter"style cuts to be applied to FT1 columns.

For example, see:

• Examples: Cuts using the FITS Skimmer

Also see:

• Row Filtering Syntax
• Calculator expressions

And for more examples of fcopy usage, see:

• iLat_3C454.3: Examples

Specifying Data Catalog (Datacat) Criteria

You can also restrict the data to a certain range of runs.

See: Examples: Specifying Datacat Criteria

Fits Skimmer Request GUI

From the Data Portal, click on the Fits Skimmer tab.

The FITS Skimmer Request GUI will be displayed:

Fits Skimmer job submitted

Your job Tutorial-tonyj-FitsSkimmer-00016 has been submitted.

Your data wil be available for download from
ftp://ftp-glast.slac.stanford.edu/glast.u53/DataServer/1221450508730

You will be sent an e-mail at <your e-mail address> when your job has completed.

You can monitor your job's progress using the Pipeline

Example: e-mail notification
	To retrieve the data, click on the ftp link:

A page similar to the following will be displayed: