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mosspectra (mosspectra-0.20.2) [xmmsas_20230412_1735-21.0.0]


Description

mosspectra processes the cleaned event file output from espfilt to produce intermediate files for the creation of model particle background spectra and images by the task mosback.

Warning and requirements: mosspectra was part of the package esas, integrated into SAS. It is now standalone, but (still) limited to work within esas' data reduction scheme (c.f. esas cookbook and/or esas flowchart). This is especially true with respect to input files structure and names. In particular, mosspectra assumes that other tasks from the package, espfilt for filtering and cheese for point source exclusion have been successfully run for the exposures to be used. However, modularization post SAS-20 allows user-chosen filenames as optional parameters, with code-derived names that follow the esas schema created if the user chooses not to enter their own filenames.



XMM-Newton SOC -- 2023-04-16