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Parameters

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

ParameterMand Type Default Constraints
removetemporariesnobtrueyes no
Remove temporary data sets?
 
removeintermediategtisnobtrueyes no
Remove intermediate GTI data sets?
 
removeintermediateeventlistsnobtrueyes no
Remove the intermediate CCD/node-based event lists?
 
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?
 
ccd8nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 8?
 
ccd9nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 9?
 
ccd10nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 10?
 
ccd11nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 11?
 
ccd12nobfalseyes no
Process data for CCD 12?
 
selectmodesnobtrueyes no
Select the modes to process? false = process only imaging.
 
imagingnobtrueyes no
Process imaging mode exposure?
 
timingnobtrueyes no
Process timing mode exposures?
 
burstnobfalseyes no
process burst mode exposures?
 
timingsrcpositionnoi190 1 - 200
Source position for TIMING and BURST modes in RAWY pixel coordinates. [Used in epframes.]
 
withinstexpidsnobfalseyes no
Select exposures to process?
 
instexpidsnoS  
List of exposures (ie, PNU002)
 
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?
 
referencepointingnosmediannominal|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?
 
filterexpressionnos  
Bad events selection expression.
 
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)?
 
deleteexposurecolumnsnobtrueyes no
 
 
searchforbadpixelsnobyesyes no
Search for bad pixels?
 
searchforbadcolumnsnobyesyes no
Look for bad columns?
 
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]
 
hithreshnor0.0045 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]
 
hicolthreshnor0.00105 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]
 
backgroundratenor0.0001none
Background rate (ct/s/pix) - if negative, mean over entire field assumed [!badpixfind]
 
narrowerthanpsfnor1.5 0.0
PSF-pixel(s) comparison - 1:equal to PSF, >1:more compact [!badpixfind]
 
threshabovebackgroundnobnoyes no
High thresholds as values above background [badpixfind]
 
loenergythreshnor0.14 0 - 30.0
Low energy threshold for searching (keV) [!badpixfind]
 
hienergythreshnor10 0 - 30.0
Hi energy threshold for searching (keV) [!badpixfind]
 
randomizepositionnobyesyes no
Randomize DETX/DETY within one CCD pixel [epevents]
 
randomizeenergynobyesyes no
Randomize PHA within one ADU bin [epevents]
 
gainctiaccuracynoi2 0 - 2
Accuracy of gain/cti correction [epevents]
 
reemissionthreshnoi none
Re-emission trigger threshold [epevents]
 
withoutoftimenobnoyes no
Perform out-of-time events analysis instead (Y/N) [epevents]
 
mappatterntypenossssd 
pattern types of the bands for photon maps [!epevents]
 
wrongpixlimitnoi20 0 - 100
Allowed percentage of wrong pixels without producing a warning [!epframes]
 
withsrccoordsnobnoyes no
Use user-supplied RA,DEC coordinates for TIMING and BURST mode ? [epframes]
 
srcranou0.0 0.0 - 360.0
User-supplied source position RA [deg] [epframes]
 
srcdecnou0.0 -90.0 - 90.0
User-supplied source position DEC [deg] [epframes]
 
mipthresholdnoi3000 0 - 4095
maximum PHA for non-MIPs [epframes]
 
mipmethodnosonboardnone|onboard|com|sas
method to reject MIPs [epframes]
 
mipdistnobnoyes no
Create MIPDIST columns and MIPHIST extension in output (yes/no) ? [epframes]
 
mipdiscardnobyesyes no
discard MIPs from event list (yes/no) ? [epframes]
 
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]
 
runeprejectnobnoyes no
Run epreject task.
 
badcolumnsetnodatasetbadcolumns.tab 
Name of optional ascii file containing pairs of <ccd nr.> <bad column nr.> (one per line), to be omitted from the offset correction
 
sigmanoreal4.0 
Sigma threshold for offset correction
 
withoffsetmapnobooleanyes 
enables use of offset map to calculate energy shifts
 
noiseparametersnoreal0.98 12 1.0 
Noise fraction parameters (cutoff parameter and 12 chip specific correction factors; only for expert use)
 
withsoftflarescreeningnobooleanno 
enables soft flare screening
 
softflarethreshold1noreal10.0 
threshold for flare screening in units of counts/0.1 s
 
softflarethreshold2noreal1.0 
threshold for flare screening
 
softflaresmoothnostringBOX 
smoothing method for flare screening
 
softflareenergyrangenolist of int40 50 
energy range for flare screening (in ADU units)
 
softflaresmoothparamsnolist of real2 1 1 
smoothing parameters
 
runepexposurenobyesyes no
Run epreject task
 
analyzingSciSimdatanoS  
Set up the configuration to analyze SciSim data with epproc
 
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