XMM-Newton Science Analysis System


emosaicproc (emosaicproc-0.3.4) [xmmsas_20141104_1833-14.0.0]

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Source detection steps on individual pointins

For each individual pointing and instrument, exposure maps, detection masks and background maps have to be created. The single steps performed are:

• creation of exposure maps (including vignetting) through eexpmap
• creation of exposure maps (without vignetting, needed for mask generation), also eexpmap
• creation of detection masks, via emask
• source detection (box method) using local background, using eboxdetect
• background maps creation using esplinemap, using the source information obtained in the former step