User's Manual


Centaurus A: Far-infrared and X-rays
Far-infrared: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/C.D. Wilson,
MacMaster University, Canada; X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC

We have written a user's manual where you will find all the details you need to start using the HSA Archive Inter-Operability subsystem. Please click in the following link to download it:

User's manual (pdf)

In additon, it is provided the HSA-HCSS ICD document, which defines the interfaces between the HCSS ( Herschel Commmon Science System) and the HSA ( Herschel Science Archive ), and identifies the requirements on both systems for the transfer of metadata and data. Please click in the following link to download it:

HSA-HCSS ICD v1.8 (pdf)

Both documents are pdf format, and to open it you will need a PDF reader (Adobe Reader, for example, can be downloaded from here).