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bkgoptrate (bkgfilter-1.7) [xmmsas_20141104_1833-14.0.0]

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Parameters

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

ParameterMand Type Default Constraints
tssettabnameyesdataset  
Name of the input FITS data set and table, the latter of which can be added, following the `:', such as, `input1.ds:EVENTS'.
 
xcolnostringTIME 
Column name of X-axis.
 
ycolnostringdefault 
Column name of Y-axis.
 
fracexpcolnostringFRACEXP 
Column name of FRACEXP.
 
tsstylenostringautoauto|rate|count
Style of the input time-series.
 
withstarttimenobooleanno 
Whether start time is specified (Default: No). If yes, the task reads starttime.
 
starttimeyesreal  
Start time to evaluate.
 
withendtimenobooleanno 
Whether end time is specified (Default: No). If yes, the task reads endtime.
 
endtimeyesreal  
End time to evaluate.
 
fracexpstylenostringautoauto|calc|threshold|none
Style of handling method of FRACEXP. If threshold, the task reads fracexplower.
 
fracexploweryesreal $0 \ge f \ge 1$
Lower threshold for FRACEXP to be used in the calculation.
 
withlowercutoffcountnobooleanno 
Whether the lower cutoff count (or rate) is specified. If yes, the task reads lowercutoffcount.
 
lowercutoffcountyesreal0.0$\ge 0$
The lower threshold count or ratio in search for the optimum value, that is, any bin having the count (or ratio) equal to, or smaller than, this value is not taken into account in the search. This value has to be either zero or positive.
 
withmintimerationobooleanno 
Whether the minimum time ratio is specified. If yes, the task reads mintimeratio.
 
mintimeratioyesreal0.05$\ge 0$
The ratio of the acceptable minimum number of (time) bins (or row numbers in the FITS table) to the initial number of bins after other filtering is applied, during the search for the optimum value. If the search does not find the optimum threshold with larger number of bins, then the task raises an error and exits.
 
ignorelowcnttailnobooleanno 
If yes, the lower-count tail is ignored and the best local maximum is used to derive the output threshold, when smaller the background count (rate) threshold is, better the statistics will be. Otherwise, in those cases, an error noThresholdFound is issued, unless the number of bins that contains the smallest count consists more than the third of the entire light-curve.
 
doinsertkwdsnobooleanno 
Whether inserting the header attributes in the input time-series dataset. If yes, the (header of the) input time-series dataset will be modified.
 
dooutputsntabnobooleanno 
Whether outputting the table of signal-to-noise ratio etc (see text for detail) to the cutoff rate/count.
 
snsettabnamenodatasetsntobkgcut.ds:SN_TO_BKGCUT 
Name of the output table of signal-to-noise ratio to the cutoff rate/count in the form of ``FILE.fits:TABLENAME''.
 
ParameterMand Type Default Constraints


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