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Long and short HK parameter names
Unfortunately the periodic HK parameters in the ODF are stored
in table columns with very concise non-descriptive names such as
E605 [3].
For obvious reasons the direct use of these names is very inconvenient
and prone to errors. Therefore hkgtigen
(via a corresponding service
in the CAL) implements a name mapping scheme that allows the user to specify
the HK parameters (see task parameters
parameters
and
overrideparameters) with long descriptive names while the ODF access is
transparently performed with the short ones. The translation table which
drives this process is part of the CCF constituent HKParmInt.
In order to find out what long parameter names are defined please
inspect the contents of HKParmInt with the
task calview. This will also show
the list of standard HK parameter validity ranges that hkgtigen
accesses
through the CAL.
XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2016-02-01