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CDS Has Been Recovered!
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The Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer
for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

Principal Investigator:

Richard A. Harrison
Space Science Dept., Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK

The CDS Image and Animation Gallery

CDS Mission Status (updated weekly)

Introduction

Resources available from this server can be broken up into the following main categories:

Scientific and Technical Information

• A good description of the CDS instrument can be found in the CDS Scientific Report ("Blue Book").
• The following diagram shows the CDS optical layout. Shown are both the normal and grazing incidence spectrometers, which are both fed by different angular segments of a Wolter Type II grazing incidence telescope.

• CDS-related publications.
• CDS science studies which are available to be used on the flight instrument.
• The CDS Operations Diary contains information about the technical aspects of the CDS daily operations.

Contact information

• List of institutions contributing to CDS.
• CDS Email and phone directory.

Software

• We maintain a CDS software mailing list that you can subscribe to.
• Information about installing the CDS software.
• Guide for the CDS scientist.
• CDS software notes
• CDS required science analysis software
• CDS software written in IDL.
• One line summaries of all CDS routines.
• Search the CDS software library.
• Notes on software sharing
• Central to the science analysis software is the Atomic Data and Analysis Structure (ADAS)
• Another important atomic database and software package is CHIANTI which is available from both a site in the United States and in Europe

Data

• Search the CDS catalog of observations.
• We now maintain a CDS data analysis discussion mailing list that you can subscribe to.

Additional Information

• More information about CDS is available from:

  Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  The Official CDS Home Page, including the Atlas, the Gallery, and the Image of the Week.

  Mullard Space Science Laboratory

  Information about the Grazing Incidence Spectrometer (GIS) detectors, the Command and Data Handling System, and the Experiment Power Supply (EPS).

  University of Oslo

  Information about the CDS Quicklook Software.

• A SOHO European Data Archive is under development at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

• Follow this link to other solar WWW servers, or go to the top-level ORPHEUS home page.

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