Summary release note for ppsprod-16.45
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Pipeline Version: 16.45_20171222_1520
Pipeline name: ppsprod
Release Date: 2017-12-22
SAS Manifest: xmmsas_20171220_1025



Summary
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This new version of the pipeline is based on the SAS16.1 public
release with some minor modifications. The main changes in the 
products with respect to previous version are

-) the actual EPIC count rate of a source is now taken into account to
 optimize the flaring background filtering for extraction of its EPIC
 spectrum. This change affects mostly bright sources where the total
 signal-to-noise in the spectrum is not significantly affected by
 background flaring.

-) pile-up diagnostic numbers for EPIC sources are included in the
 header of the EPIC spectra according to two different methods: (a)
 based on the count rate following the recipes in Jethwa et al.
 (2015,A&A,581,A104) and (b) the observed-to-model singles and doubles
 pattern fraction ratios (SNGL_OTM and DBLE_OTM) computed by the SAS
 task epatplot.

-) response matrix and effective area files for 2nd order RGS spectra
 are now also included under the PPS products

-) footprints for EPIC observations based on the combined EPIC
 exposure maps are provided as ds9 region files.

-) OM sources detected within the degraded sensitivity area after
 overexposure to Jupiter are flagged as affected by bad pixels. 


The version of SAS being used is a pipeline-specific manifest
xmmsas_20171220_1025. This is based on the public SAS release 16.1.0,
described at
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/sas-release-notes-1610



Documentation
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Documentation for this pipeline can be found at:

http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/pipeline

and links therein.