XMM-Newton Science Analysis System


mosback (mosback-0.22.3) [22.0.0-9173c7d25-20250127]

Algorithm

 Read parameters
 Open and read input spectrum file header
 Open and read QPB calibration file
 if (withplotfiles) open LUNs for ASCII QDP output
 Set outer CCFs which will be used as cognates for central CCD
 Read in actual input spectrum 
 Open and read RMF
 Set channel ranges for several energy bands (e.g. Au contamination)
 do i=1,7 (nCCDs)
  if (selected) then
   Read in FOV spec for CCDi (areafov(i) and expofov(i))
  endif
 enddo
 do i=1,7 (nCCDs)
  if (selected) then
   Read in FWC spec for CCDi (areafwc(i) and expofwc(i))
   Normalize specFWC(1:4096,i) and specFWCunc(1:4096,i)
  endif
 enddo
 Remove any chip's data that has less area than limiting area
 do i=2,7 Object corner data
  if (selected) then 
   Read in Obj Corner spec for CCDi (areacoro(i) and expocoro(i))
   Calculate hardness
   Augment spectra
   Write augmented spectra to output file
  endif
 enddo
 if (ccd1 selected) then
  create mask for normalizing center chip's spectrum
  determine how many similar chips have data
 endif
 do i=2,7 FWC corner data
  if (selected) then
   Read in FWC Corner spec for CCDi (areafwcc(i) and expofwcc(i))
  endif
 enddo
 if (ccd1 selected) then
  create corner spectrum for the center chip
 endif
 do i=2,7 
  Create ratio of obj/corner for FWC data
 enddo
 if (ccd1 selected) then 
  Determine if center chip has gold gaps
 endif 
 Create masks to remove strong instrumental lines
 Remove Al-Si line from all spectra
 do i=1,7
  if (withplotfiles) write spectra to QDP output files
   Read in FWC images
   FWC images by ccd are accumulated for the output bkg image
   Write by ccd FWC images (e.g. mos1S001-fwcimccdN-elow-ehigh.fits)
 enddo
 if (withplotfiles) close some QDP files
 Search for and eliminate hot pixels
 if (withplotfiles) then 
  create output bkg spec QDP file
  write bkg spec to QDP file
  close QDP file
 endif
  open output diagnostic bkg image
  write bkg image
  close bkg image
 Bridge the Al-Si gap
 Fit the spectrum (KDK: describe polfit routine here)
 if (withplotfiles) write the bridged spectrum to QDP
 Finish the bridge (KDK: describe here)
 if (withplotfiles) write augmented spectrum to QDP
 Create and open template output bkg spectrum
 write created bkg spectrum to FITS
 close FITS