XMM-Newton Science Analysis System


epproc (epicproc-2.9.10) [xmmsas_20050815_1803-6.5.0]

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Parameters

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

Parameter	Mand	Type	Default	Constraints
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?
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?
ccd8	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 8?
ccd9	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 9?
ccd10	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 10?
ccd11	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 11?
ccd12	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Process data for CCD 12?
selectmodes	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Select the modes to process? false = process only imaging.
imaging	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Process imaging mode exposure?
timing	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
Process timing mode exposures?
burst	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
process burst mode exposures?
timingsrcposition	no	i	190	$\ge$ 1 - $\le$ 200
Source position for TIMING and BURST modes in RAWY pixel coordinates. [Used in epframes.]
withinstexpids	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Select exposures to process?
instexpids	no	S
List of exposures (ie, PNU002)
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	median	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?
filterexpression	no	s
Bad events selection expression.
flagfilteredevents	no	b	false	yes $\vert$ no
Flag the events that match the filter expression instead of removing them?
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)?
deleteexposurecolumns	no	b	true	yes $\vert$ no
searchforbadpixels	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Search for bad pixels?
searchforbadcolumns	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Look for bad columns?
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	0.0045	$\ge$ 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	0.00105	$\ge$ 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	0.0001	none
Background rate (ct/s/pix) - if negative, mean over entire field assumed [!badpixfind]
narrowerthanpsf	no	r	1.5	$\ge$ 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	0.14	$\ge$ 0 - $\le$ 30.0
Low energy threshold for searching (keV) [!badpixfind]
hienergythresh	no	r	10	$\ge$ 0 - $\le$ 30.0
Hi energy threshold for searching (keV) [!badpixfind]
randomizeposition	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Randomize DETX/DETY within one CCD pixel [epevents]
randomizeenergy	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Randomize PHA within one ADU bin [epevents]
gainctiaccuracy	no	i	2	$\ge$ 0 - $\le$ 2
Accuracy of gain/cti correction [epevents]
reemissionthresh	no	i		none
Re-emission trigger threshold [epevents]
withoutoftime	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Perform out-of-time events analysis instead (Y/N) [epevents]
mappatterntype	no	s	sssd
pattern types of the bands for photon maps [!epevents]
wrongpixlimit	no	i	20	$\ge$ 0 - $\le$ 100
Allowed percentage of wrong pixels without producing a warning [!epframes]
withsrccoords	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Use user-supplied RA,DEC coordinates for TIMING and BURST mode ? [epframes]
srcra	no	u	0.0	$\ge$ 0.0 - $\le$ 360.0
User-supplied source position RA [deg] [epframes]
srcdec	no	u	0.0	$\ge$ -90.0 - $\le$ 90.0
User-supplied source position DEC [deg] [epframes]
mipthreshold	no	i	3000	$\ge$ 0 - $\le$ 4095
maximum PHA for non-MIPs [epframes]
mipmethod	no	s	onboard	none|onboard|com|sas
method to reject MIPs [epframes]
mipdist	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Create MIPDIST columns and MIPHIST extension in output (yes/no) ? [epframes]
mipdiscard	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
discard MIPs from event list (yes/no) ? [epframes]
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]
runepreject	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Run epreject task.
badcolumnset	no	dataset	badcolumns.tab
Name of optional ascii file containing pairs of <ccd nr.> <bad column nr.> (one per line), to be omitted from the offset correction
sigma	no	real	4.0
Sigma threshold for offset correction
withoffsetmap	no	boolean	yes
enables use of offset map to calculate energy shifts
noiseparameters	no	real	0.98 12 $\times$ 1.0
Noise fraction parameters (cutoff parameter and 12 chip specific correction factors; only for expert use)
withsoftflarescreening	no	boolean	no
enables soft flare screening
softflarethreshold1	no	real	10.0
threshold for flare screening in units of counts/0.1 s
softflarethreshold2	no	real	1.0
threshold for flare screening
softflaresmooth	no	string	BOX
smoothing method for flare screening
softflareenergyrange	no	list of int	40 50
energy range for flare screening (in ADU units)
softflaresmoothparams	no	list of real	2 1 1
smoothing parameters
runepexposure	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Run epreject task
analyzingSciSimdata	no	S
Set up the configuration to analyze SciSim data with epproc
Parameter	Mand	Type	Default	Constraints