Layout of this Guide

The following sections give information about the ROSAT satellite (section 2), the data that you get from ROSAT (section 3), how to read a data tape and how to get a quick idea of what your data contains (section 4), detailed descriptions of how to analyse ROSAT PSPC and HRI data (section 5), how to communicate with the ROSAT project and how to stay informed (section 6). Finally, there is a number of appendices describing the dataset formats, giving a full list of ASTERIX XRT commands.