XMM-Newton Science Analysis System


epproc (epicproc-2.25.4) [22.0.0-9173c7d25-20250127]

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?
withdefaultcal	no	boolean	Y	Y/N
whether mode-dependent calibration-related settings should be used automatically, this will use for: BURST: withrdpha=“N”, withxrlcorrection=“Y”, runepreject=“Y”, runepfast=“Y” TIMING: withrdpha=“Y”, withxrlcorrection=“Y”, runepreject=“Y”, runepfast=“N” IMAGING: withrdpha=“N”, withxrlcorrection=“N”, runepreject as user-supplied, runepfast=“N”
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?
rungtimerge	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Merge GTIs from each CCD
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)?
othertables	no	list of uppercase strings	BADPIX EXPOSURE STDGTI DLIMAP HKAUX:q!	none
names of secondary tables or arrays to propagate
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]
testenergywidth	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Use an energy width of 1eV [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]
patternanalysis	no	boolean	Y	Y/N
no, if pattern recognition has been done already (future development)[!epevents]
withframecti	no	boolean	N	Y/N
yes, if TIME-derived frame numbers should be used in CTI correction for non-imaging modes (TI, BU) instead of the ODF frame numbers. For FF, eFF, LW, SW modes internally always the TIME-derived frame numbers instead of the dummy ODF numbers are used (should not be changed). [!epevents]
withpatternoffset	no	boolean	Y	Y/N
epevents: yes, if pattern energy offset corrections should be applied
withbackgroundgain	no	boolean	Y	Y/N
epevents: yes, if background gain corrections should be applied
ctilongtermsoft	no	boolean	Y	Y/N
epevents: special soft energy function
withrdpha	no	boolean	Y	Y/N
yes, if a correction for rate-dependent PHA effects for TI and BU modes should be applied. The logical keyword PHA_RDCO indicates whether this correction has been applied or not. If applied, then the keyword PHA_RDCB gives the scaling factor B used in the correction, derived from block RDPHA_DERIV in the CTI.CCF. [!epevents]
rdphatimebinsize	no	boolean	100
time-bin size for rate-dependent PHA correction for TI and BU modes [s] [!epevents]
checksasmip	no	boolean	N	Y/N
epevents: yes, if the MIP rejection information obtained by task epframes shall be printed (only meaningful if on-board rejection is switched off, i.e. for SW, TI, BU modes).[!epevents]
backgroundtres	no	boolean	N	Y/N
epevents: yes, if averaged discarded line value (rather than time resolved) shall be used for background gain corrections
backgroundtbin	no	real	100.0	0-150000
epevents: time bin for averaging time-resolved background level data
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]
setupbpx	no	string	nom6	cal4/nom0/nom1/ nom2/nom3/nom4/ nom5/nom6/none
setup for badpix/offset correction vector (used only if ccfok=N) [epframes]
lowerthreshold	no	integer	20	0-4095
disregard low-energy events (with amplitudes $<$ lowerthreshold [adu]) already at this stage, default lowerthreshold=0 preserves recommended (old) behavior. This may be useful when comparing early mission data with recent observations as the setup was different (lowertreshold=23 instead of 20 now)[epframes]
guessdeltap	no	boolean	N	Y,N
whether to estimate the shift of the PN oscillator frequency due to temperature and ageing effects from HK data, could be used to estimate SAS_JUMP_TOLERANCE (divide by 6).[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]
runepnoise	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Run epnoise task
sigmacut	no	real	3.0
Sigma cut for bright sources
noisecut	no	int	2	$>$0
Noise cut (maximum allowed number of soft events in frame)
savemasks	no	boolean	no	yes|no
Save CCDs mask to a file
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 [epreject]
sigma	no	real	4.0
Sigma threshold for offset correction [epreject]
withnoisehandling	no	boolean	no
enables noise flagging scheme [epreject]
noiseparameters	no	real	0.98 12 $\times$ 1.0
Noise fraction parameters (cutoff parameter and 12 chip specific correction factors; only for expert use) [epreject]
withoffsetmap	no	boolean	yes
enables use of offset map to calculate energy shifts [epreject]
withxrlcorrection	no	boolean	no
turns on X-ray loading correction code for TI+BU modes, only meaningful if offset maps are availbale in the ODF and use of offset map is not switched off. [epreject]
withsoftflarescreening	no	boolean	no
enables soft flare screening (TI mode) [epreject]
softflarethreshold1	no	real	10.0
threshold for flare screening in units of counts/0.1 s [epreject]
softflarethreshold2	no	real	1.0
threshold for flare screening [epreject]
softflaresmooth	no	string	BOX
smoothing method for flare screening [epreject]
softflareenergyrange	no	list of int	40 50
energy range for flare screening (in ADU units) [epreject]
softflaresmoothparams	no	list of real	2 1 1
smoothing parameters [epreject]
runepexposure	no	b	yes	yes $\vert$ no
Run epreject task
runepxrlcorr	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Run epxrlcorr task
runepfast	no	b	no	yes $\vert$ no
Run epfast task
analyzingSciSimdata	no	S
Set up the configuration to analyze SciSim data with epproc
Parameter	Mand	Type	Default	Constraints