XMM-Newton SAS Home Page
XMM-Newton Science Analysis System


emproc (epicproc-2.9.18) [???]

Examples Home Page Errors Home Index

Meta Index / Home Page

Parameters

This section documents the parameters recognized by this task (if any).

ParameterMand Type Default Constraints
selectinstrumentsnobfalseyes no
Select one of the cameras?
 
emos1nobfalseyes no
Process EMOS1 data
 
emos2nobfalseyes no
Process EMOS2 data
 
removetemporariesnobtrueyes no
Remove temporary data sets?
 
removeintermediategtisnobtrueyes no
Remove intermediate GTI data sets?
 
removeintermediateeventlistsnobtrueyes no
Remove the intermediate CCD/node-based event lists?
 
withinstexpidsnobfalseyes no
Select exposures to process?
 
instexpidsnoS'M1S001 M2S001' 
List of exposures to process.
 
selectccdsnobfalseyes no
Select the CCDs to process? false = process all CCDs.
 
ccd1nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 1?
 
ccd2nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 2?
 
ccd3nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 3?
 
ccd4nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 4?
 
ccd5nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 5?
 
ccd6nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 6?
 
ccd7nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 7?
 
selectmodesnobtrueyes no
Select the modes to process? false = process all modes.
 
imagingnobtrueyes no
Process imaging mode exposure?
 
rimagingnobtrueyes no
Process reduced imaging mode exposure?
 
timingnobtrueyes no
Process timing mode exposures?
 
ctimingnobfalseyes no
Process compressed timing mode exposures?
 
withgtisetnobfalseyes no
Use an external GTI dataset to be used when filtering the data?
 
gtisetnoegti.ds 
Name of the external GTI dataset to be used when filtering the data.
 
runhkgtigennobfalseyes no
Generate a GTI dataset based on housekeeping?
 
runatthkgennobtrueyes no
Pre-process attitude data through atthkgen?
 
referencepointingnosobjectnominal|object|mean|median|user
Coordinates of the reference poiting used for the calculation of the sky coordinates
 
ranou0.0 0.0 - 360.0
User-specified right ascension of s/c attitude (deg)
 
decnou0.0 -90.0 - 90.0
User-specified declination of s/c attitude (deg)
 
posanglenou0.0 -180.0 - 180.0
User-specified astronomical position angle of s/c attitude (deg)
 
filtereventsnobtrueyes no
Filter the event lists?
 
flagfilteredeventsnobfalseyes no
Flag the events that match the filter expression instead of removing them?
 
rungtimergenobnoyes no
Merge GTIs from each CCD
 
applygtinobtrueyes no
Apply GTI filter to the event lists?
 
runevlistcombnobtrueyes no
Merge CCD-level event lists into exposure-level event lists (by mode)?
 
searchforbadpixelsnobyesyes no
Search for bad pixels?
 
badpixfindalgonosembadpixfindemabadpixfind|badpixfind
Algorithm for bad pixels
 
searchforbadcolumnsnobtrueyes no
Look for bad columns?
 
withbadpixgtinobfalseyes no
Search for bad pixels only in the given good time intervals?
 
badpixgtinoebapixgti.ds 
Good time intervals to use while searching for bad pixels.
 
thresholdlabelnosratepeak|rate|counts
Thresholds choice - as percentage of PEAK, as count RATE or pure COUNTS [!badpixfind]
 
lothreshnor0.0 0.0
Low threshold to search for dead pixels [badpixfind]
 
hithreshnor0.005 0.0
High threshold to search for hot pixels [!badpixfind]
 
columnsearchlabelnosmedianmedian|total
Columnsearch thresholds choice - refer to TOTAL column value or MEDIAN column value [badpixfind]
 
locolthreshnor0.0 0.0
Low threshold to search for dead columns [badpixfind]
 
hicolthreshnor0.002 0.0
High threshold to search for hot columns [badpixfind]
 
flickertimestepsnoi1 1
Number of timesteps to search for flickering pixels [badpixfind]
 
flickerksthreshnor0.55 0 - 1
K-S threshold for low count flickering pixels [badpixfind]
 
flickerchisqthreshnor15.0 0
Reduced Chi-sq threshold for high count flickering pixels [badpixfind]
 
backgroundratenor-1none
Background rate (ct/s/pix) - if negative, mean over entire field assumed [!badpixfind]
 
narrowerthanpsfnor3 0.0
PSF-pixel(s) comparison - 1:equal to PSF, >1:more compact [!badpixfind]
 
threshabovebackgroundnobnoyes no
High thresholds as values above background [badpixfind]
 
loenergythreshnor  0 - 30.0
Low energy threshold for searching (keV) [badpixfind]
 
hienergythreshnor30.0 0 - 30.0
Hi energy threshold for searching (keV) [badpixfind]
 
useccfdarkframenobnoyes no
Use dark frame in CCF [emenergy]
 
randomizeenergynobyesyes no
Randomize PHA within one ADU bin [emenergy]
 
keepsifluornobnoyes no
Keep as one event diagonals with Si fluorescence [emevents]
 
randomizepositionnobyesyes no
Randomize DETX/DETY within one pixel [emevents]
 
rejectrowsnobyesyes no
Throw away rows/frames with too many events [emevents]
 
maxeventsperrownoi4 1
Maximum number of events per row/frame [emevents]
 
randomizetimenobtrueyes no
Randomize TIME within one frame [!emevents]
 
withsrccoordsnobnoyes no
Provide source coordinates (Timing only) [emframes]
 
srcranou0.none
Source right ascension (J2000) [emframes]
 
srcdecnou0.none
Source declination (J2000) [emframes]
 
withparametersnobfalseyes no
Specify explicit list of HK parameters? [hkgtigen]
 
parametersnoS  
List of HK parameters to consider [hkgtigen]
 
exceptnobfalseyes no
Consider all parameters except those specified [hkgtigen]
 
withoverrideparametersnobfalseyes no
Specify list of additional parameters? [hkgtigen]
 
overrideparametersnoS  
List of override/additional parameters [hkgtigen]
 
findlowenernobyesyes no
Additional run of embadpixfind below 500 eV.
 
analyzingSciSimdatanoS  
Set up the configuration to analyze SciSim data with emproc
 
ParameterMand Type Default Constraints


Examples Home Page Errors Home Index

XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-11-23