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6.5 Event list structure in the RGS Spectroscopy Mode

The event list for the RGS Spectroscopy Mode consists of 2 extensions:

A short description of the column in the EVENTS extension is given in Table 33.


Table 33: RGS Spectroscopy Mode event list columns. The placeholders $xy$ are readout node ($x=$0-1) and CCD number ($y=$1-9).
Name Units Description
BINTABLE EVENT  
TIME   Time stamps of events
FLAG   Event attribute flag
BETA   Dispersion angle before aspect drift correction
XDSP   Cross-dispersion angle before aspect drift correction
CHIPX PIXEL Raw row number from telemetry
CHIPY PIXEL Raw column number from telemetry
PHA eV Total telemetered energy
SHAPE   Number of pixels combined into event on-board
GRADE   total number of pixels
PI eV Gain corrected PHA
CCD_NR   CCD number
BETA_CORR RADIANS Aspect drift corrected dispersion (${\rm\beta}$) angle
XDSP_CORR RADIANS Aspect drift corrected cross-dispersion angle
M_LAMBDA Ångstroem $\vert$Channel Wavelength$\times$order$\vert$
MLAMBDA_CHANNEL Ångstroem Channel number of binned M_LAMBDA
BETA_CHANNEL   Channel number of binned BETA_CORR
XDSP_CHANNEL   Channel number of binned XDSP_CORR
BINTABLE EXPOSU$xy$  
NLOSTEVT COUNTS Lost event counter
ABORTFLAG   Abort Flag
FLAG   Frame attributes
TIMEDEL SECONDS Frame integration time
TIME SECONDS Frame central time (s since MJDREF)
FRACEXP0 FRACTION Effective time fraction for node 0
FRACEXP1 FRACTION Effective time fraction for node 1
ASPCDSP   Aspect correction of BETA
ASPCXDSP   Aspect correction of XDSP
FRAME   frame identifier
BINTABLE BADPIX$xy$  
CHIPX PIXEL Bad pixel X-coordinate
CHIPY PIXEL Bad pixel Y-coordinate
YEXTENT PIXEL # of pixel in y column
TYPE   1: Hot 2: Flickering 3: Dead
BADFLAG   1 for uplinked bad pixels; 2 for a CCF origin; 3 for a file origin
BINTABLE STDGTI$xy$  
START   GTI start time
STOP   GTI stop time
REJPIX$xy$  
FRAME   frame identifier
FLAG   event attribute flag
CHIPX PIXEL X-coordinate
CHIPY PIXEL Y-coordinate
EXPMAP$xy$ Image


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