Delivery Note for Observation - 730/0158160201 (GRB031203)
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XFTS Delivery Date to SOC : Tue Dec 16 17:41:43 2003

1 PCMS Processing
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Summary release note for pipeline 02000051/20030917.155521

The previous production pipeline (04000013/20030722.143236, prod2) 
used SAS 5.4.2, that is xmmsas_20030717_1631.

The new pipeline started operations on 18/09/2003. It uses SAS 5.4.3, that is 
xmmsas_20030911_1631. The pipeline is prod version 02000051/20030917.155521

Summary:
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The principal change in this pipeline is the upgrade of eexpmap from version 
3.27.3 to 3.27.5.  This addesses the following issues:

- Avoid undefined values of pntimedel
- Initialize function xxcti with  xxcti = tend - tbeg
- Use column TIMEDEL in exposure extensions to calculate exposures.
- For EPN, write keywords "OOTCORR" and "OOTFRAC".
- Fixed error in flag mask interpretation.

The (badpixfind) "backgroundrate" parameter for selecting bad pixels has been 
lowered from 0.0011 to 0.00011.  This follows a recommendation from the task 
author.  This change  will reduce the 2% spurious excess of bad pixels in the PN.

2 Data Product Screening Report
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XMM SSC data-product screening log
Version <16-12-2003>

Revolution  0730
Obs Seq.    0158160201
Target      GRB031203
Seq_id      007541

Note that this observation had to be manually edited in order to 
propagte it through the pipeline processing. The OM source detection
stage for one of the Science Windows appeared to be in an infinite 
loop (having executed for 24 hours without ending). We aborted 
the task and edited the pipeline status in order to ignore this and
any subsequent source detection processing. Thus source lists are
missing for some of the Science Windows represented in the ODF.