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omgchain (omgchain-1.12.2) [xmmsas_20230412_1735-21.0.0]

Parameters

This section documents the parameters recognized by this task (if any).

All parameters are optional, since omgchain searches for the grism images in the working directory. If at least one such image is found it is processed, otherwise omgchain finishes without producing any file output.
ParameterMand Type Default Constraints
inpdirectorynostringnone 
Directory path-name of the input files directory - defaults to the current directory.
 
outdirectorynostringnone 
Directory path-name of the output files directory - defaults to inpdirectory
 
commentnostringnone 
User's comments for output
 
nsigmanoreal2$\geq 1$
Number of $\sigma$ above the background required for a detection (this parameter is passed to omdetect, see the description of omdetect.
 
combinenobooleanyes 
Condition for combining the Engineering-2 subwindows
 
spectrumhalfwidthnoreal-8.0-20 to 20
Half-width of the spectrum extraction region (in pixels, if negative, and in FWHWs otherwise)
 
bkgoffsetleftnoreal0.-20 to 20
Offset of the left background extraction region from the edge of the spectrum extraction area; in pixels, if negative, or in FWHWs otherwise.
 
bkgwidthleftnoreal-8.-40 to 40
Width of the left background extraction region; in pixels, if negative, or in FWHWs otherwise.
 
bkgoffsetrightnoreal0.-20 to 20
Offset for the right background extraction region; in pixels, if negative, and in FWHWs otherwise.
 
bkgwidthrightnoreal-8.-40 to 40
Width of the right background extraction region; in pixels, if negative, or in FWHWs otherwise.
 
spectrumsmoothlengthnointeger $\geq 0$
Length of the smoothing window for smoothing the extracted spectra, if necessary. Values 0 or 1 of this parameter imply no smotthing.
 
extractionmodenointeger $\geq 0$
Switch between different extraction modes. The value 0 corresponds to the normal extraction (summation of counts in the cross-dispersion direction); 1 corresponds to the Optimal Extraction (Horne's algorithm [2]); 2 corresponds to the spline smoothing of the spectrum cross-section; 3 corresponds to the Gaussian fit of the spectrum cross-section.
 
extractfieldspectranobooleanno 
Condition for extraction either only the target object spectrum or all available spectra of the sources in the field
 
mod8correctionnointeger1 0 to 3
Condition for removing the modulo-8 noise: 0: correction not applied; 1: correction applied using the modulo-8 map extracted from the input image; 2: correction applied using the modulo-8 map extracted from the OM CCF flat field; 3: correction applied multiplying the input image by the OM CCF flat field.
 
plotbinsizenointeger $\geq 0$ Å
Size of spectrum wavelength bins for the output plot (in Å)
 
plotfluxnointeger20 to 2
Flag for plotting the spectrum only (value 0), the background only (value 1), or both of them (value 2)
 
scalebkgplotnobooleanno 
Condition for scaling the background plot differently from the spectrum plot
 
removescatteredlightnobooleanno 
Condition for removing scattered light features by the task omgprep
 
ParameterMand Type Default Constraints

XMM-Newton SOC -- 2023-04-16