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


backscale (backscale-1.3.3) [???]

Spatial masks 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
spectrumsetyesstringspectrum.ds 
Name of the input file
 
badpixlocationnostringnotSpecified 
Name of the file containing the bad pixels, initially this is the event file.
 
withbadpixcorrnobooleanyes 
Whether to use bad pixels and chip gaps in the calculation.
 
useodfattnobooleanno 
Whether to use the ODF attitude file to construct position info.
 
ignoreoutoffovnobooleanyes 
Whether area outside the field of view should be included in the backscale calculation.
 
detmaptypenochoiceflatdataset flat
This is the detector map type. It should be left as the default 'flat' in all cases except where the source region contains a spatial mask. In this case it should be set to 'dataset' and an image of the extraction region given in detmaparray.
 
detmaparraynoarraydetmapfile.ds:none
Name of detector map dataset and array in the DAL compound notation. Only used if detmaptype is set to dataset.
 
ParameterMand Type Default Constraints


Spatial masks Home Page Errors Home Index

XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-11-12