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echeckregion (especget-1.57) [22.0.0-9173c7d25-20250127]


Description

echeckregion calculates whether the centre of an input region falls within an an EPIC observing window. If the region centre falls on a chip, but outside the observing window, for small and large-window observations, the output status is set false. Otherwise status is set true. Note that regions falling outside the field-of-view or on a chip gap result in an output status of true.



XMM-Newton SOC -- 2025-01-27