Message received from Richard Schwartz, NASA GSFC richard@hxrbs.gsfc.nasa.gov Mar 7, 1995 Subject: Hard X-ray Event Listings Since the end of the Solar Maximum Mission in November 1989 the principle space-borne solar flare hard x-ray instrumentats have been 1. Ulysses contact: Kevin Hurley khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu 2. GRANAT instruments: PHEBUS and WATCH contact: Nicole Vilmer and Gerard Trottet, vilmer@obspm.fr 3. BATSE on CGRO Launched April 1991 Flare database begins 19 April 1991 To access the archive and the flare listings: Connect through WWW http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdac.html or telnet sdac.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.57.156) or set host sdac (15886) username batse, no password or you can request the listing to be mailed or placed in an anonymous ftp site. Send your request to: richard@sdac.gsfc.nasa.gov amy@sdac.gsfc.nasa.gov I have placed the current flare listing into the anonymous ftp area of sdac. The name of the file is [ANONYMOUS.INPUT.BATSE]FLARE_LIST.TXT It begins: BATSE Flare List Current time:95/03/07, 1433 Number of flares selected = 4487 BATSE Start Start Peak Duration Peak Burst Triggertime Event Date Time Time sec Counts / Trigger seconds yy/mm/dd hhmm:ss hhmm:ss s 2000cm^2 # of day 12 91/04/19 0059:48 0059:55 25 521 0 0 11 91/04/19 0312:57 0313:13 32 652 0 0 15 91/04/19 0320:03 0320:10 19 45669 0 0 7 91/04/19 0442:01 0442:23 37 412 0 0 4. HXT on Yohkoh Launched 30 September 1991 For an event listing (paper copy or file) send your requests to Dr. Takeo Kosugi, NAOJ, kosugi@laputa.mtk.nao.ac.jp Regards, Richard Schwartz