FITS Foreign File Encapsulation Convention

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2012-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/1201.1829v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Registered FITS Convention: http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/registry/foreign.html, 10 September 2007, 6 pages

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This document describes a FITS convention developed by the IRAF Group (D. Tody, R. Seaman, and N. Zarate) at the National Optical Astronomical Observatory (NOAO). This convention is implemented by the fgread/fgwrite tasks in the IRAF fitsutil package. It was first used in May 1999 to encapsulate preview PNG-format graphics files into FITS files in the NOAO High Performance Pipeline System. A FITS extension of type 'FOREIGN' provides a mechanism for storing an arbitrary file or tree of files in FITS, allowing it to be restored to disk at a later time.

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