XMM-Newton Science Analysis System
emask (emask-2.9) [xmmsas_20050815_1803-6.5.0]
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Description
Using an exposure image from any of the EPIC instruments, a mask image
representing the area on the sky which is searched by the source
detection tasks is constructed. The detection mask is a FITS image
containing the integer values 0 and 1 where 1 markes the image area
on which source searching will be performed.
XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2005-08-15