XMM-Newton Science Analysis System


pyOAL (XMMextractorpy-0.5.2) [22.0.0-9173c7d25-20250127]

Current classes

At the moment, these are the current functions and classes present in pyOAL:

• Observation: main class. Loads the data from the XML and saves them. Object from this class have the _obs functions that returns all the products from the observation.
• Instrument: Instrument class. Objects from this class contain exposures (get_exposures).
• Exposure: Exposure class. Objects from this class contain the basic information in their attributes. Products of each exposure can be obtained using get_products.
• Product: Products class.
• Task: Task class. Objects of this class contain the basic information regarding classes. Also contains run_task, which can be used alongside the list of parameters from the given task to directly run it with a Python interface.
• Param: Returns the raw values (as a list) of the column of the FITS file passed as argument.