Obtain the Suzaku science data from DARTS


Retrieve the Suzaku science data

The Suzaku science data can be retrieved from DARTS at ISAS using ftp or wget. The following are the commands to retrieve your sequence using either FTP or wget (for rev 1.2 processing data).


Retrieve via FTP

 ftp ftp.darts.isas.jaxa.jp
 login:  anonymous
 password : your-emailaddress
 ftp> cd /pub/suzaku/rev1.2
 ftp> binary
 ftp> get 101005010.tar  (${seq_no}.tar)
 ftp> quit
Note that downloading one sequence data (roughly a size of GBytes) may take a few to several minutes.

Retrieve via wget

If you have wget, type the following command (replace 101005010 with your sequence number):

wget -nv -m --passive-ftp -nH --cut-dirs=3 ftp://ftp.darts.isas.jaxa.jp/pub/suzaku/rev1.2/101005010/

wget is available from the GNU site.


Decrypt the data

The script "decrypt_data.pl", which can be obtained from HEASARC, allows you to decrypt Suzaku data encrypted with PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or GPG. You need PGP or GPG to run decrypt_data.pl ( how to obtain PGP or GPG). For the usage of decrypt_data.pl, please follow the instruction on the HEASARC page.

Last Modified: 28 June 2011