XMM-Newton Science Analysis System


espfilt (espfilt-5.0.2) [xmmsas_20230412_1735-21.0.0]

Parameters

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

Note that the rangescale parameter default is appropriate for the MOS, but not for the pn; for the pn the default should be 15.0 Some SAS options are also interpreted by espfilt before being passed to its constituent tasks:

• '-V' (verbosity) is used in the same way as the SAS_VERBOSITY environment variable.
• '-o' (odf) is used to define the directory where the data resides in the same way as the SAS_ODF environment variable. Normally, the task checks the environment variable SAS_ODF, then checks if a valid odfingest-produced ASCII file is present, but the user can enter the odf directory or file on the command line with this option.
• '-i' (ccf) is used to define the directory where the Calibration (CCF) data resides in the same way as the SAS_CCF environment variable. Normally, the task checks the environment variable SAS_ODF, then checks if a valid cifbuild-produced ASCII file is present, but the user can enter the ccf directory or ccf.cif file on the command line with this option.
• There is emulation of the '-h' (help), '-m' (manpage), '-p' (param) parameters.

Parameter	Mand	Type	Default	Constraints
General parameters
eventfile	yes	unknown	dataset	none
Input FITS event list
withoot	no	boolean	no	yes|no
Input a PN OOT event list? (only for PN)
ootfile	no	unknown	dataset	none
PN OOT FITS event list (only for PN)
method	no	string	histogram	ratio|histogram
fit method to use.
withsmoothing	no	boolean	yes	yes|no
Smooth data?
smooth	no	integer	51	$1<=smooth<60$
Smoothing factor in seconds
withbinning	no	boolean	yes	yes|no
Bin data?
binsize	no	integer	60	$1<binsize<100$
Bin width in seconds
ratio	no	real	1.2	$0<=ratio<=10.$
Flaring ratio of annulus counts
elow	no	integer	2500	$0<elow<=11999$
Low Band Energy
ehigh	no	integer	8000	$1<ehigh<=12000$
High Band Energy
rangescale	no	real	6.0	$1.<=rangescale<=25.$
Histogram fit range scale factor
allowsigma	no	real	2.5	$0.1<=allowsigma<=10.$
Limit in sigma for unflared rates
limits	no	real	0.1,6.5	$0.1<=limits<=10.$
Parameter limits for gaussian fit (plim)
keepinterfiles	no	boolean	no	yes|no
Keep intermediary files produced?
Parameters for individual tasks
Standard SAS parameters
Parameter	Mand	Type	Default	Constraints