home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
File List | 1995-02-13 | 2.6 KB | 62 lines |
-
- (File last updated 10 January 1992 UT 2015)
-
- Registered Extensions to FITS
- IAU FITS Working Group
- Preben Grosbol
-
- Introduction
- ------------
- Extensions to the basic FITS format can be defined as specified in
- Grosbol et al. (Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 73, p359-364, 1988). The IAU
- FITS Working Group (WG) under Commission 5 registers the names of such
- conforming extensions. The status of a given extension can have one of
- the following levels:
-
- Status Remarks
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- S Standard FITS extension accepted by the IAU FITS WG
- and recommended by the IAU.
- P Proposal for FITS extension accepted by local FITS
- committees but not yet by the IAU FITS WG.
- D Draft proposal to be discussed in local FITS commitees.
- R Reserved FITS extension name for which a full draft proposal
- has not yet been submitted.
- L Local FITS extension which has a limited scope only.
-
- The table below gives a list of known names of FITS extension formats,
- their status and reference organization:
-
- Ext-name Status Ref. Remarks
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
- 'TABLE ' S IAU Defined in Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 73,
- p365-372, (1988).
-
- 'BINTABLE' D IAU Draft Proposal by W.Cotton and D.Tody
- September 20, 1991.
-
- 'IMAGE ' R IUE Suggested extension name (by J.R.Munoz);
- No full proposal submitted.
-
- 'COMPRESS' R GSFC Suggested extension name (by A.Warnock);
- Preliminary proposal.
-
- 'FILEMARK' R NRAO Suggested extension name (by D.Wells);
- No full proposal submitted.
-
- 'DUMP ' R - Suggested extension name for binary dumps;
- No full proposal submitted.
-
- 'A3DTABLE' L NRAO Extension used by AIPS and defined in
- the 'Going AIPS' Manual Chapter 14.
-
- 'IUEIMAGE' L IUE Local extension defined for archiving
- of special IUE data products.
-
- Anyone who wants to register a FITS extension name should contact
- either the NOST FITS Support Office
- ('bschlesinger@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov' or 'NSSDCA::BSCHLESINGER') or the
- Chairman of the IAU FITS Working Group ('pgrosbol@eso.org' or
- 'ESO::PGROSBOL'). A short description and justification should be
- submitted together with the request for registration.
-