SAO ROSAT Science Data Center

Welcome to the home page of the ROSAT Science Data Center located at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts! We are the data support center for the ROSAT Xray orbiting observatory.

We provide the following services:

• PROS/Xray Data Analysis System
  • PROS User's Guide
    • Postscript version (1023330 bytes)
    • HTML version
    • SEARCH the PUG (PROS Users Guide)
  • PROS versions 2.3 and 2.3.1 distribution
  • Hotseat, the technical hotline for PROS and ROSAT related questions
  • PROS Hints and Pointers
• HRI Calibration Report (postscript, 2523498 bytes)
• The ROSAT Guest Observer Program
• ROSAT V&V (Validation and Verification)

Other information and services available regarding ROSAT:

• ROSAT Newsletters from GSFC
• ROSAT Status Reports from GSFC
• GSFC ROSAT Guest Observer Facility
• HEASARC (High Energy Astrophysics Archive Research Center)

• The ROSAT Service Area at MPE
• ROSAT Newsletters from MPE

• ROSAT CDROMs
• On-line ROSAT Images