XMM-Newton Science Analysis System


emproc (epicproc-2.20) [xmmsas_20160201_1833-15.0.0]

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Parameters

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

Parameter	Mand	Type	Default	Constraints
selectinstruments	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Select one of the cameras?
emos1	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process EMOS1 data
emos2	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process EMOS2 data
removetemporaries	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Remove temporary data sets?
removeintermediategtis	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Remove intermediate GTI data sets?
removeintermediateeventlists	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Remove the intermediate CCD/node-based event lists?
withinstexpids	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Select exposures to process?
instexpids	no	S	'M1S001 M2S001'
List of exposures to process.
selectccds	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Select the CCDs to process? false = process all CCDs.
ccd1	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 1?
ccd2	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 2?
ccd3	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 3?
ccd4	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 4?
ccd5	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 5?
ccd6	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 6?
ccd7	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 7?
selectmodes	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Select the modes to process? false = process all modes.
imaging	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Process imaging mode exposure?
rimaging	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Process reduced imaging mode exposure?
timing	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Process timing mode exposures?
ctiming	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process compressed timing mode exposures?
withgtiset	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Use an external GTI dataset to be used when filtering the data?
gtiset	no	e	gti.ds
Name of the external GTI dataset to be used when filtering the data.
runhkgtigen	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Generate a GTI dataset based on housekeeping?
runatthkgen	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Pre-process attitude data through atthkgen?
referencepointing	no	s	object	nominal|object|mean|median|user
Coordinates of the reference poiting used for the calculation of the sky coordinates
ra	no	u	0.0	$\ge$ 0.0 - $\le$ 360.0
User-specified right ascension of s/c attitude (deg)
dec	no	u	0.0	$\ge$ -90.0 - $\le$ 90.0
User-specified declination of s/c attitude (deg)
posangle	no	u	0.0	$\ge$ -180.0 - $\le$ 180.0
User-specified astronomical position angle of s/c attitude (deg)
filterevents	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Filter the event lists?
flagfilteredevents	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Flag the events that match the filter expression instead of removing them?
rungtimerge	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Merge GTIs from each CCD
applygti	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Apply GTI filter to the event lists?
runevlistcomb	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Merge CCD-level event lists into exposure-level event lists (by mode)?
searchforbadpixels	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Search for bad pixels?
badpixfindalgo	no	s	embadpixfind	emabadpixfind|badpixfind
Algorithm for bad pixels
searchforbadcolumns	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Look for bad columns?
withbadpixgti	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Search for bad pixels only in the given good time intervals?
badpixgti	no	e	bapixgti.ds
Good time intervals to use while searching for bad pixels.
thresholdlabel	no	s	rate	peak|rate|counts
Thresholds choice - as percentage of PEAK, as count RATE or pure COUNTS [!badpixfind]
lothresh	no	r	0.0	$\ge$ 0.0
Low threshold to search for dead pixels [badpixfind]
hithresh	no	r	0.005	$\ge$ 0.0
High threshold to search for hot pixels [!badpixfind]
columnsearchlabel	no	s	median	median|total
Columnsearch thresholds choice - refer to TOTAL column value or MEDIAN column value [badpixfind]
locolthresh	no	r	0.0	$\ge$ 0.0
Low threshold to search for dead columns [badpixfind]
hicolthresh	no	r	0.002	$\ge$ 0.0
High threshold to search for hot columns [badpixfind]
flickertimesteps	no	i	1	$\ge$ 1
Number of timesteps to search for flickering pixels [badpixfind]
flickerksthresh	no	r	0.55	$\ge$ 0 - $\le$ 1
K-S threshold for low count flickering pixels [badpixfind]
flickerchisqthresh	no	r	15.0	$\ge$ 0
Reduced Chi-sq threshold for high count flickering pixels [badpixfind]
backgroundrate	no	r	-1	none
Background rate (ct/s/pix) - if negative, mean over entire field assumed [!badpixfind]
narrowerthanpsf	no	r	3	$\ge$ 0.0
PSF-pixel(s) comparison - 1:equal to PSF, >1:more compact [!badpixfind]
threshabovebackground	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
High thresholds as values above background [badpixfind]
loenergythresh	no	r		$\ge$ 0 - $\le$ 30.0
Low energy threshold for searching (keV) [badpixfind]
hienergythresh	no	r	30.0	$\ge$ 0 - $\le$ 30.0
Hi energy threshold for searching (keV) [badpixfind]
useccfdarkframe	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Use dark frame in CCF [emenergy]
randomizeenergy	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Randomize PHA within one ADU bin [emenergy]
keepsifluor	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Keep as one event diagonals with Si fluorescence [emevents]
randomizeposition	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Randomize DETX/DETY within one pixel [emevents]
rejectrows	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Throw away rows/frames with too many events [emevents]
maxeventsperrow	no	i	4	$\ge$ 1
Maximum number of events per row/frame [emevents]
randomizetime	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Randomize TIME within one frame [!emevents]
withsrccoords	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Provide source coordinates (Timing only) [emframes]
srcra	no	u	0.	none
Source right ascension (J2000) [emframes]
srcdec	no	u	0.	none
Source declination (J2000) [emframes]
withparameters	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Specify explicit list of HK parameters? [hkgtigen]
parameters	no	S
List of HK parameters to consider [hkgtigen]
except	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Consider all parameters except those specified [hkgtigen]
withoverrideparameters	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Specify list of additional parameters? [hkgtigen]
overrideparameters	no	S
List of override/additional parameters [hkgtigen]
findlowener	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Additional run of embadpixfind below 500 eV.
analyzingSciSimdata	no	S
Set up the configuration to analyze SciSim data with emproc
Parameter	Mand	Type	Default	Constraints