Calibration Access and Data Handbook

Description

The file contains energy bound information and absorption coefficients used in the analytical model that constructs the response matrix.

The CCF contains the following tables:

EBOUNDS

The energy bounds of PI channels (not used ?).

Attributes:

None.

Columns:

CHANNEL:

The PI channel number.

E_MIN:

Minimum energy (eV).

E_MAX:

Maximum energy (eV).

PHA_EBOUNDS

The energy bounds of PHA channels (not used ?).

Attributes:

None.

Columns:

CHANNEL:

The PHA channel number.

E_MIN:

Minimum energy (eV).

E_MAX:

Maximum energy (eV).

BINNEDPI_EBOUNDS

The energy bounds of the PI channels, used to determine the equivalent energies of spectral channels in the redistribution matrix construction.

Attributes:

None.

Columns:

CHANNEL:

The PI channel number.

E_MIN:

Minimum energy (eV).

E_MAX:

Maximum energy (eV).

EBINS

The energy bins used when contructing the redistribution matrix.

Attributes:

None.

Columns:

CHANNEL:

The channel number.

E_MIN:

Minimum energy (eV).

E_MAX:

Maximum energy (eV).

ABSORPTION

Attributes:

None.

Columns:

COMPOUND:

The name of the material.

ENERGY:

Photon energy (eV).

INV_LENGTH:

Absorption coefficient (1/cm).

NOISE_PARAMS

Attributes:

None.

Columns:

MODE_ID:

The observing mode.

PATTERN:

Event patterns (1/2).

NOISE_PARAMETER:

Noise parameters.

PARTEVENT_PARAMS

Attributes:

None.

Columns:

TAU_IN:

Tau noise parameter for each energy.

S_IN:

S noise parameter for each energy.

T_IN:

T noise parameter for each energy.

THRESH_LOSS

Attributes:

None.

Columns:

MODE_ID:

The observing mode.

PATTERN:

Event patterns (1/2).

THRESH_LOSS:

Threshold loss for each energy.