The Committee also discussed ways of highlighting FUSE results at the upcoming AAS meeting in San Diego. Kruk summarized the status of the calibration software. Improvements to deadtime corrections and wavelength zero point were noted. HIST data are now corrected for grating rotation, and the installation process for GIs was made easier. A prototype for the astigmatism correction, event burst detection and correction, background subtraction, and optimal extraction are under development, and flat fields still need to be characterized.
Available software includes calibration and utility programs.
A Web-based plot of the distortion in wavelength calibration, typically 0.030 A, will soon be available. Now that Cycle 1 GIs are seeing their data, this was viewed by the Committee are very timely. Andersson led the discussion on the next Data Workshop. More of the presentations will involve science results from both the PI Team and GIs, including a Poster Session. Most of the afternoon was devoted to issues arising in the reduction and analysis of GI data.