XMM-Newton Science Analysis System


lcplot (lcplot-1.22.1) [xmmsas_20230412_1735-21.0.0]

Errors

This section documents warnings and errors generated by this task (if any). Note that warnings and errors can also be generated in the SAS infrastructure libraries, in which case they would not be documented here. Refer to the index of all errors and warnings available in the HTML version of the SAS documentation.

Incorrect RATE extension		error
	Incorrect RATE extensions (see Developer's notes for more details)
Keyword TIMEDEL missing		error
	The keyword TIMEDEL is missing
Existing output file cannot be overwritten		error
	The output file exists, and cannot be overwitten because the SAS_CLOBBER variable is set to 0
Unavailable default device type and/or output file		error
	Unavailable default device type and/or output file
Invalid input file		error
	Invalid input column dimensions (the four columns RATE, ERROR, BACKV, BACKE contained in the FITS file must be arrays of dimension Nlightcurve $\times$ Nbins)
TestTypeUnknown		error
	The tests available are 'both', 'chi' or 'ks'
Unavailable device type and/or output file		warning
	corrective action: The device type and output file are set to the defaults.
Number of data points to plot is higher than 500		warning
	corrective action: Increase binsize value until the number of points to plot is lower than 500 [1]
Too small number of bins		warning
	Number of valid bins is lower than 2. Cannot perform tests corrective action: No variability tests are delivered
Mandatory keywords are missing from the input file		warning
	Some mandatory header keywords are missing or inconsistent corrective action: A warning is raised and the task tries to proceed
No valid data points		warning
	All the input values are NaN corrective action: A warning is raised, the NaN values are set to 0.0 and the task continues