1 PCMS Processing ----------------- Full release note for slew configuration 01_slew8.3_20100920.120500 =================================================================== PCMS Infrastructure Version: 8.3 Pipeline Version: 01_slew8.3_20100920.120500 Pipeline Name: slew8.3 Release Date: 2010-09-20 SAS Manifest: xmmsas_20100920_1801 SAS Version: 10.0.3 ppstrack Summary ======= This is the first introduction of the processing of XMM-Newton slew observations into the SSC PCMS system. All slew processing has hitherto been performed by an informal pipeline run by a team at the XMM-Newton SOC. In this first implementation, the slew pipeline generates only the imaging and related products from slew observations. It does not perform source detection on those images. Source detection will be added at a later stage. For slew processing, only the PN provides useful science data because in imaging modes, only the PN frame time is short enough to prevent significant along-track blurring of sources. Data is only used for slew processing if the PN is in either Extended Full Frame, Full Frame or Large Window mode. The filter is always MEDIUM. The slew pipeline is based on SAS 10.0.3. Details of the contents of SAS 10.0.0 (the basis of SAS 10.0.3) and the relative changes for SAS 10.0.2 and the intervening SAS 10.0.1 can be found in the SAS release notes at http://xmm.esac.esa.int/sas/current/documentation/releasenotes The slew processing pipeline, based substantially on the SAS task, eslewchain, fragments the observation event list into segments along the slew path. For each segment, events are corrected for attitude and used to build an image. Documentation ============= Documentation for this pipeline and pipeline products can be found here: