The 1D output files of reduced SANS data are of the format below. There is a header of information describing the sample information (gleaned from the raw data file) and information about the processing steps that were taken to generate the reduced data file. The data is in a 6-column format where the 6 columns are:

1- q (1/Angstrom)
2- I(q) (1/cm)
3- standard deviation of I(q) (1/cm)
4- standard deviation in q of the resolution (1/cm)
5- mean q-value for the resolution (1/Angstrom)
6- beam stop shadowing factor (=1 if no shadowing effect)

(only a snippet of the file is shown here)

FILE: SILIC009.SA3_SRK_S109		 CREATED: Thu, May 8, 2008 5:09:28 PM
LABEL: Silica 2 pct in D2O Scatt 1.3M                              
MON CNT   LAMBDA   DET ANG   DET DIST   TRANS   THICK   AVE   STEP
1e+08  6       20     1.33     0.72501     0.2C   1
BCENT(X,Y)   A1(mm)   A2(mm)   A1A2DIST(m)   DL/L   BSTOP(mm)   DET_TYP 
106.8  64.59  50    3    5.4675    0.142    50.8    ORNL  
SAM: SILIC009.SA3_SRK_S109
BGD: SILIC004.SA3_SRK_S104,
EMP: SILIC003.SA3_SRK_S103,
DIV: PLEX_2NOV2007_NG3.DIV,
MASK: DEFAULT.MASK,
ABS Parameters (3-6): TSTAND=1;DSTAND=1;IZERO=1.2409e+05;XSECT=1
Average Choices: AVTYPE=Circular;SAVE=Yes;NAME=Auto;PLOT=Yes;
The 6 columns are | Q (1/A) | I(Q) (1/cm) | std. dev. I(Q) (1/cm) | sigmaQ | meanQ | ShadowFactor|
       0.001968        0.005782       0.0006038         0.00196        0.003581           1e-10
       0.005905        0.005617       0.0006021        0.002647        0.006443           1e-10
       0.009842         0.00543       0.0005732         0.00289         0.02377       1.904e-12
        0.01378        0.005915       0.0006046        0.002903         0.02387       4.252e-07
        0.01771         0.01961         0.00849        0.002934         0.02407        0.001849
        0.02165          0.5348          0.1079        0.003038         0.02458          0.1889
        0.02558            2.56          0.1322        0.003355         0.02622          0.8726
        0.02952           2.922         0.04212        0.003623         0.02969          0.9992
        0.03345           2.139         0.04429        0.003739          0.0336               1
        0.03738           1.445          0.0324         0.00386         0.03752               1
        0.04131          0.9398         0.02119        0.003992         0.04144               1
        0.04524          0.6035         0.01302        0.004131         0.04535               1
        0.04917          0.3966        0.007888        0.004279         0.04927               1

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