XMM-Newton Data Files Handbook

Contents

• List of Tables
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Purpose
  • 1.2 Document structure
  • 1.3 A summary of the data flow
  
  
• 2 An overview of the XMM-Newton data file subsystems
  • 2.1 The XMM-Newton Science Archive
  
  
• 3 File formats
  • 3.1 FITS format
  • 3.2 Portable Data Format (PDF)
  • 3.3 Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
  • 3.4 HTML
  • 3.5 ASCII
  • 3.6 Compression
  
  
• 4 Uncalibrated files
  • 4.1 Observation/Slew data science, non-science, and spacecraft files
    • 4.1.1 Identification of individual ODF component files
    • 4.1.2 Observation/slew summary file
    • 4.1.3 EPIC MOS science files
      • 4.1.3.1 EPIC MOS Imaging Mode Event List File
      • 4.1.3.2 EPIC MOS Timing Mode Event List File
      • 4.1.3.3 EPIC MOS Auxiliary File
    • 4.1.4 EPIC MOS diagnostics files
    • 4.1.5 EPIC PN science files
      • 4.1.5.1 EPIC PN Imaging Mode Event List File
      • 4.1.5.2 EPIC PN Timing/Burst Mode Event List File
      • 4.1.5.3 EPIC PN Auxiliary File
    • 4.1.6 RGS science files
      • 4.1.6.1 RGS Spectroscopy Mode Event List File
      • 4.1.6.2 RGS High Time Resolution Mode Event List File
      • 4.1.6.3 RGS Auxiliary File
      • 4.1.6.4 RGS Diagnostic Mode Image File
      • 4.1.6.5 RGS Offset Files
    • 4.1.7 OM science files
      • 4.1.7.1 OM Imaging Mode Data Image File
      • 4.1.7.2 OM Fast Mode Event List File
      • 4.1.7.3 OM Tracking History Data Auxiliary File
      • 4.1.7.4 OM Reference Frame Data Auxiliary File
      • 4.1.7.5 ``Priority files''
    • 4.1.8 OM diagnostics files
    • 4.1.9 EPIC Radiation Monitor science files
      • 4.1.9.1 ERM Count Rate Files
      • 4.1.9.2 ERM Spectra Files
    • 4.1.10 Instrument Housekeeping Files
    • 4.1.11 Spacecraft files
      • 4.1.11.1 Spacecraft Time Correlation File
      • 4.1.11.2 Spacecraft Attitude History File
      • 4.1.11.3 Spacecraft Reconstructed Orbit File
      • 4.1.11.4 Spacecraft Periodic Housekeeping File
  • 4.2 EPIC Radiation Monitor archive
  
  
• 5 Calibration data: CCF
  • 5.1 The Calibration Index File
  • 5.2 File naming convention
  • 5.3 File description
    • 5.3.1 Scope: xmm
    • 5.3.2 Scope: xrt
    • 5.3.3 Scope: emos
    • 5.3.4 Scope: epn
    • 5.3.5 Scope: rgs
    • 5.3.6 Scope: om
  
  
• 6 Calibrated event lists
  • 6.1 Event list structure in the MOS Imaging Mode
  • 6.2 Event list structure in the MOS Timing Mode
  • 6.3 Event list structure in the PN Imaging Mode
  • 6.4 Event list structure in the PN Timing Mode
  • 6.5 Event list structure in the RGS Spectroscopy Mode
  • 6.6 Event list structure in the RGS High Resolution Timing Mode
  • 6.7 Event list structure in the OM Fast Mode
  
  
• 7 Instrument Mode and Filter names in XSA and file headers
  • 7.1 Scientific Modes
  • 7.2 non-Scientific Modes
  
  
• 8 Pipeline data products: PPS
• 9 Acronym list
• 10 Glossary of binary table column descriptions
• 11 Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• A. Time scale and Reference Time