Description

This task is called, together with econvolverprep, by the perl task esensitivity. The descriptions for all three of these tasks should be consulted together.

The overall purpose of sensitivity is to create maps of the minimum count rate of a point source which would just be detectable by eboxdetect. The first part of the algorithm calculates the minimum counts within the detection box which would just be detectable; in order to convert this counts-within-a-box to total count rate of the whole source, sensitivity needs to know the ratio between the two across the width of the instrument field of view. These ratio maps are calculated for each energy band by econvolverprep followed by asmooth and are supplied to sensitivity via the parameter psfexpmapsets.

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